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Beware of generated XAML in UWP
I admit, this is s strange blog post title but that’s what this post is going to talk about. I’m working on a UWP app that has different min and target runtimes: After doing some UI work with Visual...
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Genymotion and VirtualBox install issue
I use Genymotion as Android emulator for my Xamarin work, I know that there are better alternatives like Microsoft’s Android emulator but since can’t turn on Hyper-V on my machine this is the solution...
View ArticleUWP: Read German text from a file
I had some hard times figuring out how to properly read a file that contains typical German characters (e.g umlauts) so I want to share my solution in case are in the same situation. The magic trick is...
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Change x:Bind default binding mode
Recent release of Windows 10 introduced Complied Bindings, an type safe alternative to {Binding} syntax that add compile time checking and better performances, it can also be used in place of...
View ArticleFix “No Internet Connection” issue
A couple of days ago, some applications like Skype, Skype for Business, Outlook stopped working due to a “can’t connect” problem, the only way to make them work was to enable corporate VPN, since I was...
View ArticleFix Xamarin Form compilation errors
I’ve recentily repaved my development machine and installed Visual Studio 2017 adding nearly all features including, of course, Xamarin and all subsequent updates. Today I’ve tried to create a blank...
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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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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...
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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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...
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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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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...
View ArticleTrace application flow easily
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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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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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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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 #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 #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 #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 #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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