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22 Sep

BASTA! 2016: Sessions and Slides

Thanks to all of you who attended one or more of my three sessions at the BASTA! Conference about

Integrating Office 365 Data into your app by using Microsoft Graph
Building Apps with the Universal Windows Platform
Input Validation in WPF with INotifyDataErrorInfo and DataAnnotations

Slides and demos are linked to the talks on www.thomasclaudiushuber.com/talks

It was another fantastic BASTA! conference: Great people, great sessions, well organized and a lot of fun. Looking forward to see you at the next BASTA!

By Thomas Claudius Huber Basta, C#, Office 365, UWP, WPF Basta, Office 365, UWP, WPF 0 Comments

06 Aug

Cheating customers: The Amazon story with my wife’s Microsoft Band 2

Oh dear, I could tell you stories about cheating customers, because I received broken TVs, e-guitars, mainboards and so on that I ordered as new things online. Here’s the latest story:
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By Thomas Claudius Huber Microsoft 2 Comments

26 Jul

Race condition when using a Binding on a DoubleAnimation inside of a Storyboard

Nice example of a race condition on MSDN Forums, because the Binding is running on a different thread and won’t update in time. Let’s look at the problem: (more…)

By Thomas Claudius Huber .NET, TrivadisContent, WPF, XAML .NET, C#, WPF, XAML 4 Comments

23 Jul

Open ComboBox from ViewModel in MVVM-scenario

On the Microsoft MSDN-Forums there was a question how to open up a Combobox in an MVVM-scenario from the ViewModel.

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By Thomas Claudius Huber .NET, C#, MVVM, TrivadisContent, WPF C#, MVVM, WPF, XAML 0 Comments

16 Jul

UWP: The Master-Detail-Problem with the events SelectionChanged & LostFocus and How to Fix it

While creating apps with the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) I noticed a weird behavior, but I’m not sure if it’s a bug. Let’s just call it the “Master-Detail-Problem”.

To explain it, I stripped down my code to the XAML-snippet below. No code-behind needed. (more…)

By Thomas Claudius Huber C#, Universal Windows Platform, Windows 10, XAML Data Binding, UWP, XAML 6 Comments

28 Jun

Developer Week 2016 – it was great

Last week I was at the developer week conference in Germany / Nürnberg. It was a great conference with fantastic people and great sessions.

I gave two talks:

S.O.L.I.D.-principles for C# Developers
Test Driven Development and MVVM: How to write testable ViewModels

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By Thomas Claudius Huber .NET, C#, Conferences, MVVM, TrivadisContent .NET, C#, Developer Week 0 Comments

13 May

Calling the Azure Event Hub REST-API – from UWP, WPF and any other .NET (Core) Client

To push events into Azure Event Hub you can use the Nuget-package WindowsAzure.ServiceBus (https://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAzure.ServiceBus/). That package works pretty straight forward, but there’s one problem:

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By Thomas Claudius Huber .NET, C#, Microsoft Azure, TrivadisContent, Universal Windows Platform .NET, C#, Event Hub, Microsoft Azure, UWP 4 Comments

24 Feb

Wow, Microsoft acquired Xamarin!

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To develop mobile applications today you have many options:

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By Thomas Claudius Huber .NET, C#, Microsoft, TrivadisContent, Visual Studio, Xamarin .NET, C#, Visual Studio, Xamarin 0 Comments

27 Aug

Render just the first line of a TextBlock

Sometimes you want a TextBlock to just display one line. For example if you have a huge virtualized ListView that contains many data items and in the DataTemplate you’re using a TextBlock. When the TextBlock has different height, the virtualization leads to some not so nice behavior when scrolling: (more…)

By Thomas Claudius Huber .NET, WPF, XAML 0 Comments

22 Aug

Creating a background application with WPF

Sometimes you need to have an application running in the background. Then you don’t want your MainWindow to be visible all the time. Instead you just want to have an icon in the notification area that allows the user to open up the MainWindow and to exit the application. In WPF you can do this easily with the help of Windows Forms’ NotifyIcon-class.

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By Thomas Claudius Huber .NET, C#, WPF 17 Comments