Dotnet by Example

Motto: "Talk is cheap, show me the code!"

This blog attempts to be a collection of how-to examples in the Microsoft software stack - things that may take forever to find out, especially for the beginner. I see it as my way to return something to the Microsoft community in exchange for what I learned from it.

30 April 2014

A screen-size independent scroll-into-view pane for Windows Phone and Windows Store apps

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In this article I introduced MoveObjectBehavior and a way to use it to make Facebook-app like scroll-into-view panes. All very nice, but w...
20 April 2014

Windows Phone 8.1–moving your cursor. Don’t panic!

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No code today, but a simple how-to. I was caught off-guard by this, a lot of people – including people who I concern to be power users, are ...
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02 April 2014

Code sharing strategies between Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 with the new Universal Windows apps

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With the announcement of the new SDK for Windows Phone Microsoft now really starts to stress the companionship of Windows and Windows Phone...
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26 February 2014

Drawing circles on Windows Phone Here Maps and Windows Store Bing Maps

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One of the areas where the mapping systems for Windows Phone and Windows 8 are lacking, is the ability to draw circles . In particular in ...
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23 February 2014

A behavior to replace LayoutAwarePage in Windows Store and Windows Phone apps

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Sometimes I think up things all by myself, sometimes I have to read something first to let the ole’ light bulb in my brain go ‘ping’. This p...
18 February 2014

Commercial break 2 – introducing 2 Tablet Pong aka Play On Both

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Regular readers might remember the launch of 2 Phone Pong in August 2013 , one of the first – if not the very first – action game that coul...

Build for both–an instruction video pivot page for Windows Phone apps

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For Windows Phone apps, the same goes a for Windows 8 store apps – a picture tells more than a thousand words and a video even more. So as...
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Joost van Schaik
Amersfoort, Netherlands
pronounced as: 'Yoast van Schaik'.

Senior Developer / Software Architect, Windows Development MVP.
Mixed Reality, HoloLens, Unity, C#, Xamarin, .NET.
Rogue R&D hacker.
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Most likely place to find me: in front of a keyboard.
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