One advantage of the new .NET Core (now .NET) apps is that they are cross platform. Once you create an app, the same code will run on Windows, Mac or Linux with…
Tag: XAML
Troubles with converters and x:Bind in UWP
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…
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…
No Code font tester in WPF
There are some times when we want to check all installed fonts in the system and test a phrase to check how does it show in the display at some size. There…
Modernizing your .NET app with WinUI3
In the last post I showed how to use Xaml Islands to modernize your .NET app. As you could see, there are a lot of steps and the procedure is a little…
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…
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…
Loading Xaml Views and ViewModels Dynamically
Some time ago, I’ve written this post about loading XAML dynamically. You can use this in many different ways: store the views in a database load the views from a server change…
Improving the UWP client app
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…