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…)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…)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…)
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…)
When you plan to build a new enterprise line-of-business application, you have many choices as a .NET developer for the client-side technology:
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…)
On the Microsoft MSDN-Forums there was a question how to open up a Combobox in an MVVM-scenario from the ViewModel.
To do this, (more…)
Last week I was at the developer week conference in Germany / Nürnberg. It was a great conference with fantastic people and great sessions.
I gave two talks:
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 forward, but there’s one problem:
