I was working with the WPF project, converted to UWP in this article, in order to check usage of the new MVVM toolkit, explained in my last article and use the bindings…
Tag: UWP
Porting your WPF application to the web with Uno Platform
Nowadays, a very common scenario is that you have your WPF app ready and running for some time, and your boss tells you that it’s time to go further and port this…
Modernizing your .NET app with Xaml Islands
You have an app developed a long time ago and it’s showing its age. It’s time to modernize it, but rewrite isn’t an option: it’s too complicated to rewrite it and it’s…
XAML Studio
Once upon a time, in the old days, when WPF was a little new baby and people needed a tool to fiddle around with the new design language, Microsoft released a tool…
NavigationView in UWP
In the a previous post, I’ve told that you should use controls that are responsive to ease your work of creating an UI that adapts to the screen size. One of the…
Responsive design in UWP
When I talk about UWP development and how it works for a large number of devices, from the tiny Raspberry Pi to the huge Surface Hub, and including the Hololens and Xbox,…
XAML edit and continue
One of the features I really like in Visual Studio while I am developing is the Edit and Continue feature. Just add a breakpoint in the code, edit the code and maybe…
Detecting Window Closing With UWP
I was developing an app in UWP where I needed to do some cleanup when the window was closed, and the only way that I had found until now was to used…
Multi Instancing in UWP
One thing that went unnoticed in the last post is that the console app is multi-instance: if you click in the live tile or in the start menu, instead of bringing the…
Writing console apps with UWP
One new feature introduced in the April 2018 Windows 10 update is the possibility of writing console apps using UWP. You could ask "why build an UWP console app if we have…