Review of 2015–my first year in Switzerland
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...
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How to implement a simple notification system in MVVM Windows 8.1 Universal apps
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....
How to add Microsoft Application Insights v1 to your Windows 8.1 Universal app
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] String Encryption in Windows 8.1 Universal apps
[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...
How to implement a bindable progress indicator (loading dots) for MVVM Windows (8.1) Universal apps
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’...
Helper class to easily display local toast notifications (Windows Universal app)
Often , we need to display a confirmation that some action in our app has been finished (like some data has been updated etc.). There are several ways of doing this, like displaying a MessageBox or...
How to easily check the pressed keyboard button with a converted event using MVVM (Windows Universal)
In case you missed it, I lately am deeply diving into MVVM. Earlier today, I wanted to implement the well loved feature that a search is performed by pressing the Enter button. Of course, this woul...
Simple helper method to detect the last page of API data (C#)
When you are working with APIs from web services, you probably ran already into the same problem that I did recently: how to detect if we are on the last page of possible API results. Some APIs (l...
Review of a geek’s 2014
We are close to the end of this year 2014, time for a little review. At the beginning of the year, I was mostly busy with working on my UserVoice library that makes it easier for me and other deve...
Goodbye Telefónica (Germany), Hello ShareCommService (Switzerland)
Yes, you read that right. Today was my last work day at Telefónica, where I worked since June 2007. During that time, I learned a lot about how good customer service should be, and even more about ...