Lately I’ve been playing around with Realm. Realm is a very cool platform that allows us to easily build mobile apps that use things like local data storage, two-way data synchronisation, real time collaboration, … Things that typically require some coding… Continue Reading →
Preface (you can skip this if you are not interested in the underlying idea, no hard feelings!) A while ago my brother -who sells windows (no, not the OS) and doors- asked me if I could build a small app for… Continue Reading →
The problem When we use Runs in a TextBlock in XAML, we can get these annoying whitespaces between the Runs in our application. For example, this XAML… <TextBlock> <Run Text=”123″ /> <Run Text=”456″ /> <Run Text=”789″ /> </TextBlock> … produces… Continue Reading →
Intro On one of our UWP projects we ran into an issue where OneWay binding using x:Bind (compiled bindings) didn’t work. Only the initial value was shown. In the end, when I found and fixed the problem, I realized that it was… Continue Reading →
‘Google Images Style’ GridView For one of the upcoming updates of the app I’m currently working on, the designers used a grid that looks a lot like the GridView that Google uses on it’s Images search result page. It’s basically… Continue Reading →
Catch ’em all Last week a colleague asked: what’s the best way to catch different types of exceptions that need to be handled in the same way? He saw a couple of options himself, for example: try { DoSomethingThatCanGoWrong(myVar); }… Continue Reading →
Some months ago, I blogged about how to display PDF files in your UWP app: Displaying PDF files in a UWP app When I look at the stats of my blog, I notice that that particular blogpost gets a lot of visitors…. Continue Reading →
I was trying out some stuff on my Xbox One (well technically not mine, but that doesn’t matter). More particularly I was testing out UWP for Xbox One. One of the first things I wanted to try out was how to get input… Continue Reading →
It has been a while since my last blogpost (due to various reasons: preparing wedding and talk at Techorama, meetings with the architect for the construction of our house,…)! But I finally found a bit time to write another blogpost. This… Continue Reading →
8th March 2016 I gave a talk for Mobel (“Belgian Mobile Developer User Group”) about Data sharing and Cross-App Communication in UWP. As it was only a short talk (in total there were 3 speakers, each one covering ‘data sharing’… Continue Reading →
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