Open ComboBox from ViewModel in MVVM-scenario
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…)
23Jul
28Jun
Developer Week 2016 – it was great
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:
- S.O.L.I.D.-principles for C# Developers
- Test Driven Development and MVVM: How to write testable ViewModels
13May
Calling the Azure Event Hub REST-API – from UWP, WPF and any other .NET (Core) Client
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:
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24Feb
Wow, Microsoft acquired Xamarin!
To develop mobile applications today you have many options:
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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#
30May
It’s there: Windows Store Apps with XAML and C#– the ultimate handbook
Wow, it’s done. The ultimate handbook about Windows Store Apps with XAML and C# is printed and available. You can order your copy of the German-written 1146-pages-book on amazon:
Amazon.de: Windows Store Apps – das umfassende Handbuch
Find more information about the book on amazon, on my homepage http://www.thomasclaudiushuber.com/windowsstoreapps and on the publisher’s website on www.galileocomputing.de/3196.
Find more information about the book on amazon, on my homepage http://www.thomasclaudiushuber.com/windowsstoreapps and on the publisher’s website on www.galileocomputing.de/3196.
Training on Windows Store Apps
In Germany, Switzerland and Austria I’ll give a three-day-training on Windows Store Apps. If you or your company have interest on this professional training, directly contact me via http://www.thomasclaudiushuber.com/contact.php. It is possible to train you in the Trivadis-Trainings centers or onsite at your office. So far so good, let’s look at the past and the futureThe past
Puh, this was year was really instensive. Here the straight plan I had so far:- January: Buy new home
- February: My second daughter Sara was born.
- March: Finish the manuscript for the book
- April:Renovate and improve new home (thanks to Makita
) - May: Move
- … in all months: Working as a consultant and trainer @Trivadis.
The future
So the future contains much more spare time, it’s necessary, because I say “Time is money is not true, time is unpayable”. I want to spend as much as I can with my kids, my wife, family and friends (See also this awesome post from Tim on that topic). So the future plan looks like this:- June: Finish a WPF-project as a consultant and enjoy the free weekends
- July: Parental leave
- August: Parental leave
- September: Back to work, speaking at basta (www.basta.net) and at Trivadis-internal TechEvent
16Aug
Windows Store-apps with XAML and C# – blog series
Since yesterday evening Winodws 8 RTM is out for developers. This blogpost is the start of a blog-series about developing Windows Store-apps with XAML and C#. The series consists of some informational and some “how-to” posts:
- WinRT XAML vs. Silverlight XAML
- The naming issue: Metro Style-Apps, Windows 8 Style-Apps, Modern UI-Style Apps or Windows Store-Apps?
- Understanding Modern UI, WinRT and .NET (for Windows Store-apps)
- how to use CallerMemberName for MVVM in Windows Store-apps (and .NET 4.5)
- how to access files and folders in Windows Store-apps
- how to print in a Windows Store-app
- how to use contracts to integrate your app in Windows 8
- how to create and use Live-Tiles
- how to use ListView and GridView
- …
02May
The dream of "half-automatic" Automation Properties
Everyone who has worked with WPF knows the interface INotifyPropertyChanged. It only defines the PropertyChanged-event, that should be called when a property's value has been changed. The PropertyChanged-event is used by WPF's Data Binding.
Normally a class fires the event in the set-Accessors of its properties. And that's the problem why you can't use Automation Properties for classes that implement INotifyPropertyChanged.
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12Dec
C# 3.0 and WPF’s ListView
In many applications you want to fill up a ListView or a GridView with some data. In WPF applications you set the View-Property of the ListView to a GridView to show the data nicely in columns. In most cases you have an entity class (think of it as a "real" entity class or a DataRow as part of a DataTable), and objects (more…)
26Nov
TechEd Developers 2007 in retrospect – Wednesday
Wednesday at TechEd was another "linqy" day for me. In the morning I joined the session "LINQ to XML", with speaker Mike Taulty. With LINQ to XML there is a new XML-API as Part of .NET 3.5 which sits in the namespace System.Xml.Linq. LINQ to XML makes it easy to create (more…)