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…)
11
May
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 how to use it in the really great docs : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/controls-and-patterns/tree-view
Unfortunately the TreeView does not support Data Binding yet. And as you might know, UWP has also (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, the BASTA! conference. Thanks a lot for joining and making my sessions a wonderful experience for me, and hopefully for you too!
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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 might pop up:
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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 superset and how it works. (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 so.
After spiking (=prototyping) the Visual Studio Shell I wanted to go deeper into building a tabbed user interface with UWP, of course databound with MVVM.
As you might know, UWP does not contain a TabControl. But it contains a Pivot-Control that has pretty much of the functionality needed for a classic tabbed UI. So, let’s go with the Pivot and let’s see how far we can get. (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 Studio Shell built as part of this post. You find it here on www.msdevshow.com
UWP is the technology to build native applications for the Windows Platform. But there’s still some stuff missing that is required by a typical line-of-business application for the classic desktop: TreeView, DataGrid, Validation, SqlClient and more. Some parts like a DataGrid are available as 3rd-party controls. Other parts like the TreeView are already in development, as you can see in the Windows Dev Platform Backlog. That backlog shows that Microsoft is working on a TreeView, which is awesome! And I’m pretty sure, at some point in the future we’ll also get a DataGrid. This was the case for WPF and also for Silverlight. But let’s see, the future will tell us and for today we’ve great 3rd-party DataGrids.
But what else is required to build a classic desktop application? (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 to test code that is using Application.Current.Dispatcher? Application.Current is null when the test is executed, which leads to an exception.
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 a new “New Text Document.txt”-file in Windows Explorer and just renamed it to .gitconfig. But Windows Explorer didn’t accept this: (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 visit the city. Awesome Kirupa Chinnathambi from Microsoft gave me some great tips. Here just a quick write up what Kirupa told me:
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