In the previous blog post you learned how you can use JavaScript Interop to call from your WinUI application into your Blazor application that you host in the WinUI app in a WebView2. So, this was just the direction WinUI to Blazor.
But can you also call from the hosted Blazor app into your WinUI app?
(more…)WinUI 3.0 is Microsoft’s upcoming UI framework to build modern, native Windows applications.
WinUI is developed open source on https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml
Last week WinUI 3.0 alpha 2 came out, and Microsoft introduced a WebView2 control that is based on Microsoft Edge Chromium. That means you can run all the modern, awesome web stuff in that WebView2 control if you want.
This blog post shows how to use a simple JavaScript web component in a Blazor app. The web component used here is a friend-list component that takes a friend array. A friend has firstName and lastName and the friend-list component displays the friends in an unordered HTML list.
(more…)Did you know that you can call Windows 10 WinRT APIs from your WPF and WinForms apps? In this blog post I’ll show you how to display toast messages from a WPF application by using the Windows 10 ToastNotificationManager.
(more…)In this blog post, you will learn how to use XAML Islands to host the UWP MapControl in a .NET Core 3 Preview 4 WPF application.
XAML Islands is a technology that allows you to host modern UWP controls in your WPF, Windows Forms, and Win32 applications. You can use for example UWP’s InkCanvas or the MapControl, or you can use your custom UWP Controls. This allows you to modernize your apps with Windows 10 features.
(more…)If you have looked already at the Changes page of Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2019, you might have seen that it has a new Stashes section. It is shown in the screenshot below. But for what is that Stashes section?
(more…)When you write simple properties in C#, like auto properties or readonly properties that have an expression body, always put them on a single line if the code is short enough for a good one-line statement.
(more…)Visual Studio 2019 has many fantastic new features. Some of these features like the new start window make the use of Git in Visual Studio 2019 way easier than in the previous versions. Do you want to learn how to use Git in Visual Studio 2019?
In my new Pluralsight course Using Git for Source Control in Visual Studio 2019, you will learn how to use Git in Visual Studio 2019 while working on a .NET application in the context of a small team.
(more…)Quite often professional software developers
( professional = those earning their living with a job where they write code)
say that they started at the age of 12 or earlier with programming. That’s great for them.
But what if you didn’t have the chance to start at that age? Can you still become a professional software developer?
(more…)You might have noticed that it was very quiet on this blog during the last months, nearly for a whole year.
Last year my dad was fighting lung cancer. It was an intense time, my parents live a 1 hour car ride away from me. So, beside family and work there was not much time left for blogging.
But I’m thankful that I got the chance to say Goodbye. (more…)