26 Apr

Calling Windows 10 APIs From Your WPF Application

Did you know that you can call Windows 10 WinRT APIs from your WPF and WinForms apps? In this... read more

23 Apr

.NET Core 3: Use UWP Controls in WPF with XAML Islands

In this blog post, you will learn how to use XAML Islands to host the UWP MapControl in a... read more

10 Apr

The Git Stash Functionality in Visual Studio 2019

If you have looked already at the Changes page of Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2019, you might have... read more

08 Apr

Why You Should Prefer a Single Line for C# Properties

When you write simple properties in C#, like auto properties or readonly properties that have an expression body, always... read more

02 Apr

Using Git in Visual Studio has never been easier than in Visual Studio 2019

Visual Studio 2019 has many fantastic new features. Some of these features like the new start window make the... read more

26 Mar

You Don’t Have to Start as a Kid to Become a Professional Software Developer

Quite often professional software developers ( professional = those earning their living with a job where they write code) say... read more

24 Mar

Thanks Dad!

You might have noticed that it was very quiet on this blog during the last months, nearly for a... read more

11 May

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

09 Mar

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

28 Sep

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

30 Aug

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

08 Jun

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

10 Mar

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

18 Feb

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

15 Feb

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

02 Dec

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

06 Nov

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

28 Sep

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

26 Sep

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

24 Sep

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

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... read more

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... read more

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... read more

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... read more

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... read more