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.
14Feb
Initializing Web Components in Blazor via JS Interop
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.
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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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23Apr
.NET Core 3: Use UWP Controls in WPF with XAML Islands
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.
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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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02Apr
Using Git in Visual Studio has never been easier than in Visual Studio 2019
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?
Check out my new Pluralsight course
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.
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