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.

21 May 2014

Windows Phone emulator–“Unable to create a route between the waypoints”

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The Windows Phone 8.1 emulator has a beautiful new option: if you want to simulate a route you don’t have to put in a gazillion points anym...
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06 May 2014

Writing behaviors in PCL for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1

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This article was updated after a tip from Daniel Plaisted – see comments I was happily adding Windows Phone 8.1 support to WpWinNl – or ...
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MovedCheeseException–where is StorageFolder.TryGetItemAsync in Windows Phone 8.1?

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A quickie this time: when I finally started porting WpWinNl over to Windows Phone 8.1 (sorry, I was busy testing, preparing a talk and the...
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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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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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