[Updated: the first version of this blog post was using a UserControl. Thanks to a discussion on Twitter, I realized that wrapping it into a UserControl is overblown (yes, sometimes I tend to write...
Yesterday in the morning, Alessandro invited me to join a meetup targeting the Hololens. As the Hololens is very rare outside the US, I just needed to join the event. When I arrived, already one o...
Like I already announced in my last blog post about UWP AppServices, I am going to show you how to create a NuGet package for UWP class libraries. I am going to go through the whole process, and pr...
One of the very cool and helpful new features Microsoft added for UWP apps are AppServices. AppServices allow your application to provide functionality to other applications without even being laun...
This is a blog post not only for developers, but also for users (I will try to get not to technical in this post). I managed to buy a Microsoft Band 2 for me here in Europe two weeks ago, and of co...
2015 was once again a year where a lot happened. My year began with the start of a new job – I am now employed as a full time developer at the Swiss Shareholder register ShareCommService AG. The fi...
If your app performs actions, you most probably want to add also some confirmation if an action has finished. There are some ways to do this, like using local toast notifications or MessageDialogs....
Late in 2014, Microsoft finally started Application Insights (AI), their own telemetry service for all kind of apps. For Windows (Phone) 8.1 apps, the service was a long running beta. This month, M...
[Updated: This post caused a lot of controversy and bad voices, but luckily also some constructive feedback. This is not the initial, but the updated version of this post.] One of the goals of a U...
Now that I am on a good way to understand and use the MVVM pattern, I am also finding that there are some times rather simple solutions for every day problems. One of these problems is that we don’...