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WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 5 - Defining default style template

See intro blogpost here.Here's something that's actually NOT different in Silverlight (but it's different from WPF as it has always been). You declare your style using DefaultStyleKey. This means the...

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WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 6 - Using Tasks

See intro blogpost here.When you start working with WinRT, you start seeing classes missing or changed. A lot of methods are now only asynchronous, like making a web request, opening, reading and...

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WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 7 - Making WebRequests

See intro blogpost here.In Silverlight and WPF you are probably used to using WebClient to perform downloads. This is a simple class for doing download/upload string or retrieving a response stream...

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Correctly displaying your current location

With GPS receivers integrated in phones, tablets and PCs, a lot of apps are being built that displays your current location. Usually the GPS API’s that these devices come with provides you with two...

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WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 8 - What other people are blogging

See intro blogpost here.Over the last few months several other people have been writing blog posts covering the transition from WPF/Silverlight/WP7 to WinRT. Below are some of the ones I’ve stumbled...

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Why Silverlight 5’s 3D is (almost) useless

So Silverlight 5 finally hit the web this week, and there’s a lot of cool new features – some of which I’m very excited about, but probably the biggest feature ever added - the 3D XNA API that allows...

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Overwriting the default WebRequest used by WebClient

In Silverlight/WPF and WPF there’s today a WebClient class for making webrequests. Under the covers it creates HttpWebRequest for sending the request and HttpWebResponse for handling the response...

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Why Custom Controls are underrated

I’m a big fan of building controls. I love writing them, designing them, trying to make it work in as many scenarios I can while keeping them simple, extensible and most importantly reusable. In fact...

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Running a Storyboard as a Task

Sometimes you have some code that needs to run after a storyboard has completed. In my case I'm working on a little board game, and after each move (which I animate using a Storyboard), I need to...

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Hacking the Silverlight Unit Tests to support returning Task

The Silverlight/Windows Phone unit test framework has always supported running asynchronous tests – a feature that until recently wasn’t there in WPF without jumping some really ugly (and flaky) hoops....

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WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 5 - Defining default style template

See intro blogpost here.Here's something that's actually NOT different in Silverlight (but it's different from WPF as it has always been). You declare your style using DefaultStyleKey. This means the...

View Article

WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 6 - Using Tasks

See intro blogpost here.When you start working with WinRT, you start seeing classes missing or changed. A lot of methods are now only asynchronous, like making a web request, opening, reading and...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 7 - Making WebRequests

See intro blogpost here.In Silverlight and WPF you are probably used to using WebClient to perform downloads. This is a simple class for doing download/upload string or retrieving a response stream...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Correctly displaying your current location

With GPS receivers integrated in phones, tablets and PCs, a lot of apps are being built that displays your current location. Usually the GPS API’s that these devices come with provides you with two...

View Article

WinRT vs. Silverlight - Part 8 - What other people are blogging

See intro blogpost here.Over the last few months several other people have been writing blog posts covering the transition from WPF/Silverlight/WP7 to WinRT. Below are some of the ones I’ve stumbled...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Why Silverlight 5’s 3D is (almost) useless

So Silverlight 5 finally hit the web this week, and there’s a lot of cool new features – some of which I’m very excited about, but probably the biggest feature ever added - the 3D XNA API that allows...

View Article

Overwriting the default WebRequest used by WebClient

In Silverlight/WPF and WPF there’s today a WebClient class for making webrequests. Under the covers it creates HttpWebRequest for sending the request and HttpWebResponse for handling the response...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Why Custom Controls are underrated

I’m a big fan of building controls. I love writing them, designing them, trying to make it work in as many scenarios I can while keeping them simple, extensible and most importantly reusable. In fact...

View Article

Running a Storyboard as a Task

Sometimes you have some code that needs to run after a storyboard has completed. In my case I'm working on a little board game, and after each move (which I animate using a Storyboard), I need to...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Hacking the Silverlight Unit Tests to support returning Task

The Silverlight/Windows Phone unit test framework has always supported running asynchronous tests – a feature that until recently wasn’t there in WPF without jumping some really ugly (and flaky) hoops....

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