C#: Why You Should Prefer the is Keyword Over the == Operator
In the previous blog post you learned about different ways to do a null check. The traditional way is to use the == operator:
19Mar
12Mar
C#: Different ways to Check for Null
What is the classic way to check if for example a parameter value is null? If you've developed with C# since a while, you might be familiar with this classic syntax:
05Mar
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19Feb
Calling WinUI from Blazor App Hosted in WebView2
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?
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18Feb
Hosting a Blazor App in WinUI 3 with WebView2 and call a Blazor Component Method from WinUI
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.
26Apr
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 blog post I'll show you how to display toast messages from a WPF application by using the Windows 10 ToastNotificationManager.
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08Apr
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 put them on a single line if the code is short enough for a good one-line statement.
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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…)
18Feb
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.comUWP 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…)
28Sep
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 the client-side technology:
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