After finishing my last post, I saw I could improve it a little bit. The UI was too raw (my goal at the time was not to show the UI, but show…
Category: Windows
Logging an UWP application with Serilog and Reactive Extensions
Introduction One important step in developing an application is to debug it. This task will take you a lot of time and it will be especially difficult to debug an application that…
Creating a UWP project with the Windows Template Studio
Introduction Every journey begins with the first step. But, sometimes, the first step is the hardest to give. Once you started, things fly and everything becomes easier. Starting a new project is…
Surface Dial Revisited
Some time ago, I’ve written a post about Surface Dial programming. With the introduction of the Creator’s Update, some things have improved. In this post, I will show some changes and will…
Testing the UI of Windows Applications with Appium
You have finished you application, and you have created a lot of unit tests, it should be ok, no? Not quite. There are a lot of issues that can arise from the…
Backup Revisited
After using the program developed in the last post, I was thinking about some ways to optimize it. Then I went to the FileFinder class and saw this: class FileFinder { public…
Poor man’s backup
Introduction When you have something digital, having backups is something fundamental to keep your data safe. There are many threats over there that can destroy your data: hardware failures, viruses, natural disasters…
Série de vídeos sobre sensores em UWP
Acabo de concluir uma série de vídeos sobre o uso de sensores em UWP, que publiquei no Channel 9. São vídeos curtos, com até 15 minutos cada. Vale a pena dar uma…
Showing desktop context menu in Windows 10 Build 10547
After showing the desktop icons (see my last post), I right clicked the desktop and hid again the desktop icons. That way I’ve missed the context menu again (If you are running…
Restoring from Safe Mode in Windows 10
I am running Windows 10, build 10547, and I was having a strange problem: I had disabled my icons in the desktop and the right click wasn’t working in the desktop -…