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Using Git SubModules with Visual Studio
Disclaimer: I’m not a Git guru, so information in this post might not be the most accurate, it just works on my machine and wanted to share my experience. I take for granted that you are a Visual...
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UWP Localization inside a library
Many of my blog posts comes from personal real world needs, since many of them requires more than just an internet search, when i struggle with some of them I try to share my experience with the online...
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Detect Application closing in UWP
Nearly every application when user closes it using the “X” button on upper right corner prompts something like this Asking user if he wants to save actual work or cancel closing operation. Doing this...
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Install Windows 10 April update on Alienware machine
My main development machine is an Alienware 15 R3, a very powerful and nicely colored machine and, as many of you I wanted to install the latest release of Windows 10, the April 2018 update a.k.a build...
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Learning Git with Visual Studio #8
It’s inevitable, you or someone in your team make some changes and code doesn’t work as it should anymore and so is important to understand what has changed, when it has changed and maybe even who and...
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Learning Git with Visual Studio #7
Until now, we worked with a local installation of git and everything was good but once we start working on a project together with someone else we’ll soon discover that we need a way to share our work...
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Learning Git with Visual Studio #6
In previous post we talked a lot about branches and all the stuff involved (merge, rebasing, cherry-pick) but we didn’t covered a quite simple scenario: You’re working on a branch, and while in the...
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Learning Git with Visual Studio #5
In previous article I showed how to take changes from a branch into parent branch, visually we could imagine this operation like “copying” some files from a directory into his parent, but what if,...
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Learning Git with Visual Studio #4
When you’re in a team and start working on a new implementation or when you just want to do some experiments with your code without worrying about introducing regression with actual code, the best...
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Learning Git with Visual Studio #3
In this post we’re going to talk about History. In the previous post we saw how to commit changes so that git can track them, but without an history browser this list of changes wouldn’t be available...
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Learning Git with Visual Studio #2
In the previous post we learned how to connect a solution to Git source control, we’ll now pay attention to the status of each file inside the solution. Git defines several status for the files it...
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Learning Git with Visual Studio #1
As the vast majority of you i use Git as source control management, and, as many of you, I use it everyday but I feel that I’m just a basic user, so when something goes wrong or I just need to do...
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UWP Share target and COM Exception 0×80004002
Goal was very simple initially: Implement a share target inside a UWP application that, when activated, just adds a new entry inside a pre-populated ObservableCollection. Sound easy right? It doesn’t,...
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UWP applications are compiled using .NET Native compiler as detailed here. This process gives many advantages over JIT compilation: -Up to 60% performance improvement on cold startup times -Up to 40%...
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Consume Google API from UWP
I’m writing this post so that you don’t have to spend too much time as I did to figure how to authenticate and invoke Google APIs from a UWP application. I found several solutions, mostly outdated, and...
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Lottie animations in UWP
Lottie is a library created by Airbnb team that parses animation created using Adobe’s After Effects and exported as json file using Bodymovin plugin. The library was targeting iOS ,Android and React...
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How to get Skype ‘classic’ on Windows 10
If you navigate to Skype website from a Windows 10 machine look like there’s not way to download the so called “classic” version, you are redirected to the Windows Store. I still prefer the classic...
View ArticleGet unique Device Id and Application Id in UWP applications
Sometime you need to get a unique application identifier for your app together with a unique device id for internal processing. Here’s the code you need: A note regarding device identifier As you might...
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Playing with ParallaxView
Those of you who have some Windows Phone development experience will remember the Panorama control for sure. Control had a nice effect where background content was moving slowly below foreground, this...
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Save Win2D CanvasControl content
Win2D is an easy-to-use Windows Runtime API for immediate mode 2D graphics rendering with GPU acceleration that is very helpful in some situations like real time or layered rendering. This post is...
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