May 2018
Building LOB Applications with UWP: How Microsoft ROCKED IT at Build
My daily work is building LOB applications for enterprises and creating Azure-based backends. Since 2006 (more…) read more
March 2018
Playground: UWP’s new TreeView, Data Binding and HierarchicalDataTemplates
In the latest Windows 10 SDK preview build (17110, get it here) there’s a TreeView control available. You can... read more
September 2017
BASTA! Sessions about LoB with UWP and Source Control with Git!
Hi developer, this week I had two sessions at the leading independent conference in the German-speaking area for Microsoft technologies,... read more
August 2017
Building an Enterprise App with WPF, MVVM, and Entity Framework
After you’ve started to build your first enterprise app with WPF, MVVM, and Entity Framework, some questions like these... read more
June 2017
TypeScript Tutorial in German on “Entwickler Tutorials”-Website
After I’ve finished my book about TypeScript I decided to create a video tutorial in German about the JavaScript... read more
March 2017
Building a Classic Tabbed and Databound Desktop Application with UWP and MVVM
What kind of business applications do you build? Do they have a tabbed user interface? Most of mine do... read more
February 2017
Lessons learned from Building a Visual Studio Shell with UWP
Note: There’s a MS Dev Show Episode where @ytechie, @carlschweitzer and I are talking about UWP and the Visual... read more
How to Test Code that Uses Singletons like Application.Current.Dispatcher?
Got a question this morning from a student of my course WPF and MVVM: Test Driven Development. Hey Thomas, how... read more
December 2016
How Do You Create Files Without File Extensions like .gitconfig in Windows Explorer?
Today I worked with a friend on a small project and he wanted to add a .gitconfig-file. He created... read more
November 2016
Hey, I’m the first time in Seattle, what are your recommendations?
When I travelled to Seattle for my very first MVP Summit in 2013, I planned an extra day to... read more
September 2016
Why the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) can be the Technology for Your Next Enterprise Line-of-Business App
When you plan to build a new enterprise line-of-business application, you have many choices as a .NET developer for... read more
How to Revoke the Consent for an Office 365 app
To use data from Office 365 Services, like Azure AD, OneDrive, Outlook etc., you can use a single API-endpoint... read more
When the 8GB micro SD card just comes up with a small size: In my case with 63.7 MB
Today I wanted to put some music for my kids on a micro SD card. I hadn’t a free... read more
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... read more
August 2016
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... read more
July 2016
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... read more
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... read more
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... read more
June 2016
Developer Week 2016 – it was great
Last week I was at the developer week conference in Germany / Nürnberg. It was a great conference with... read more
May 2016
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... read more
February 2016
Wow, Microsoft acquired Xamarin!
To develop mobile applications today you have many options: (more…) read more
August 2015
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... read more
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... read more
July 2015
Got the MVP Award 2015 in Windows Platform Development
Woohoo, I’ve received the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award for 2015 in the category “Windows Platform Development”. ... read more
March 2015
Solved: Lenovo, the Clickpad/Ultranav and the missing hardware-buttons (W540 / T540 / W541)
In several models like W540/T540 etc. Lenovo has replaced the hardware-buttons for the Trackpoint with a big Touchpad. It... read more