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.

28 April 2015

Windows 10 build 10061 fixes MapIcon woes!

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I discovered this while preparing for my Techdays 2015 talk and you probably have to be a mapping nut like me to appreciate this fully, but ...
01 April 2015

3D maps with the Windows 10 Maps SDK

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Notice - this is not an April fool's joke, although you may think it is. It is not my custom to write about something without a real re...
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25 February 2015

Displaying Microsoft Band heart rate via Raspberry PI2 using Mono, C#, OWIN and a Windows Phone

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Intro – what? WHY? As regular readers of my blog might have seen, I got myself a Raspberri PI 2 and a Sunfounders sensor kit, and was happ...
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20 February 2015

Controlling a LED with a Raspberry PI 2 using Mono and C#

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My fellow MVP Peter Nowak from Germany pointed me to this awesome kit on Amazon.de that has this vast array of sensors in it. It comes w...
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11 February 2015

Starting an OWIN ASP.NET server on Raspberry PI 2 automatically at boot up

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Inspired by the buzz that engulfed the Microsoft community when it was announced the new Raspberry PI 2 was going to support Windows 10 I a...
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08 February 2015

Using a full-size none-stretched background image in a Xamarin.Forms app

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Intro I always like to use a kind of a translucent background image to my app’s screens, that makes it look a bit more professional than ju...
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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...
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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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