25 January 2015

Keeping popups above the bottom app bar in Windows 8.1 store apps

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Recently, I wrote about the KeepFromBottomBehavior that helped me to deal with popups that appeared on the bottom of the screen, but were c...
10 January 2015

“System.IO.FileNotFoundException” using controls from another assembly in Xamarin Forms on iOS.

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Disclaimer: I am at the early stages of learning Xamarin and may be just writing some stupid and obvious things. That’s just the way it is....
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05 January 2015

Binding shapes to the Windows Phone 8.1 Here Maps control

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Intro Every time I meet someone from the Windows Phone Map team (or get into contact with them in some other way) I talk about the importan...
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22 December 2014

A behavior to show a MessageDialog from a MVVMLight viewmodel in Universal apps–with callbacks

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Of course you are now all writing MVVM based apps, after all I have been advocating that for years, and you are listening this here old ve...
13 December 2014

A behavior to deal with UI consequences of full screen and Software Keys in Windows Phone 8.1

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This week I was presented with an interesting challenge. Using this technique , I used the whole screen for my app. The problem was I had no...
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”...