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.

22 November 2014

The Microsoft Band and me–three weeks later

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Why? How? I will be honest – I wasn’t really thinking the whole thing about wearables is more than a bit overhyped marketing stuff and that...
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12 November 2014

Executing and testing geofencing background tasks in Universal Apps

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Intro On October 18th the Dutch and Belgian Windows Platform Development communities got together for an event called “Lowlands WPdev 2014”...
11 November 2014

Returning Task<T> from a Windows Runtime Component

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A very short tip this time, that took me some time to find out. You will need a Windows Runtime Component if you want, for instance, host ...
23 October 2014

Making the Application Bar display on of top of the UI in Windows Phone 8.1 Store Apps

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In Windows Phone 7, 8 and 8.1 Silverlight apps this is very easy: you just set the Opacity of the Application bar to any value less than 1 ...
01 October 2014

Visualizing geofences as circles on the map in Universal Apps

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Intro If you tried to work with geofences, you may have encountered this problem. You want to have an easy way to show where the darn thing...
27 August 2014

Simple workaround for “Design view is unavailable for x64 and ARM target platforms”

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When you are developing for Windows Phone or Windows and you are faced with using a native component (for instance the Bing Maps control on...
13 August 2014

Querying the Windows Phone 8.1 map when there are child objects over it

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With the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK came (yet again) an improved Map Control. This brought, among other things, the MapIcon. In ye olde days, th...
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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.
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