Extensible Application Markup Language
11May
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…)
09Mar
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…)
28Sep
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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30Aug
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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10Mar
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…)
26Jul
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…)
16Jul
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…)
27Aug
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…)
28Feb
BASTA! Spring 2014 – slides and demos
At this year’s spring edition of the BASTA! Conference (http://basta.net/2014se/) I gave three talks:
- Windows 8.1 – UI Neuerungen
- All you need to know about XAML
- Asynchronous Programming with C#
15Nov
Microsoft TechDays 2013 Basel
Thanks to all who joined my sessions at TechDays in Basel. Also a big thanks to Microsoft Switzerland for organizing this great and successful event. I really enjoyed the two days of networking with awesome people.
Please find the slides and demos of my talks on my homepage by (more…)