One thing a lot of developers don’t know is that Microsoft provides a bunch of URI schemes to access Windows-internal features directly (e.g., from within an application). This applies especially to the settings window: Imagine your Windows Store app needs…
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Compiler configuration If you’re developing Windows Store Apps using UWP, you’ll be familiar with the new Compile with .NET Native tool chain build option, that is recommended for release builds (and, in fact, not only recommended but obligatory when building…
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All blog posts with a title that starts with [MVVMbasics] are related to the MVVMbasics framework. If you are only interested in my regular blog posts and not in MVVMbasics, ignore these. To list all articles covering MVVMbasics, go to…
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All blog posts with a title that starts with [MVVMbasics] are related to the MVVMbasics framework. If you are only interested in my regular blog posts and not in MVVMbasics, ignore these. To list all articles covering MVVMbasics, go to…
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Version 2.4 of the MVVMbasics framework, which has just been published, has been ported to .NET Standard instead of Portable Class Libraries. In addition, new Templates are included that are built for Visual Studio 2017.
After giving a short overview of some common use-cases of ReactiveUI interactions, this time I’d like to discuss a few approaches for tweaking and fine-tuning interactions for most easy usage! Fire-and-forget broadcast The first application of interactions I presented in…
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A very convenient feature included in ReactiveUI version 7 is called Interactions. In this blog post, I’d like to give a short overview of how to use interactions and (which might be even more interesting for hardcore developers) how to…
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After having updated all the MVVM commands to follow the ReactiveUI 7 style as described in my previous blog post, there a few more things in the code I wasn’t fully content with: All the code lines for command declaration…
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One of my Xamarin projects uses ReactiveUI as MVVM framework. Since version 7 of ReactiveUI is roughly a year old by now, I recently (finally) scheduled some time to clean up my code base and migrate everything to use the…
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Remember the simple PDF renderer I presented a few weeks ago? Back then, I promised to show two different versions of PDF viewers – well, here is the second one! And, as you might have guessed, in this one we’ll…
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