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My Portable Class Libraries Presentation at the Visual Studio 2012 Community...
Yesterday two local development user groups organized a common Visual Studio 2012 Community Launch event. I was one of the four MVPs speaking there. Each one of use prepared a talk on his favorite...
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Get a Free EBook from Packt Publishing
This weekend Packt Publishing is celebrating the publishing of their 1000th book. They decided to share this celebration with their registered users. Everyone who logs in with their existing account...
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Course Review: Data Access with Entity Framework 5: Up & Running
Recently I've been contacted by campusMVP.Net to review their new Entity Framework 5 online course. Their approach to online training intrigued me and I agreed to take a closer look at it. This is my...
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Programmatically Positioning the Page When Virtual Keyboard Opens
Tapping a textbox in a Windows Store app automatically show the virtual keyboard. If this keyboard would cover the tapped control, it scrolls the page just enough to make it completely visible. Most...
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WCF Data Services Tools for Windows Store Apps and NuGet Package Restore
If you've tried accessing an OData feed from a Windows Store apps you've already come across WCF Data Services Tools for Windows Store Apps. It's a downloadable package which extends the Add Service...
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What's New in .NET Framework 4.5 Session from Visual Studio 2012 Bootcamp
On Monday our local Microsoft subsidiary organized Visual Studio 2012 bootcamp as a preconference to Bleeding Edge 2012. For my talk I selected 3 new features in .NET Framework 4.5 that excite me...
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Developing Windows Store Apps with C#, XAML and MVVM Session from Bleeding...
The 5th Bleeding Edge conference was taking place in Laško. For my session I decided to take a different approach to the development of Windows Store apps: instead of talking about the design or the...
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Resources from Windows Store App Development Workshop
This weekend a worldwide hackathon for Windows is taking place in over 100 locations. Among them is Ljubljana where the event started with my 3 hour Windows Store app development workshop. I split it...
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Developing Windows Store Apps Session at ReBuild 2012
Today our local Microsoft DPE team organized ReBuild, a one day recap of the recent Build conference which was taking place in Redmond a little over a month ago. I had the last session of the day and...
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Book Review: Windows Presentation Foundation 4.5 Cookbook
At the end of September Packt Publishing celebrated the publishing of their 1000th book by offering a free book to all their registered users. After I decided for Windows Presentation Foundation 4.5...
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Book Review: Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide
Recently I received a free copy of Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide ebook by Packt publishing for review. I didn't do any Kinect development before, but it sounded interesting to me for quite...
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Infinite Scrolling with Incremental Loading in Windows Phone 8
In mobile applications there’s often a need for scrolling lists with large or even (for all practical purposes) infinite amounts of data which of course needs to be loaded incrementally. The canonical...
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Book Review: .Net Framework 4.5 Expert Programming Cookbook
The latest Packt publishing book I received a free review copy for was .Net Framework 4.5 Expert Programming Cookbook by A.P. Rajshekhar. As soon as I glanced over the table of contents it stood out to...
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Building Connected Apps Session at NT conference 2013
At NT conference 2013 I opened the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Developer Tales from the Tranches PreCon track with a session on Building Connected Apps. I addressed all aspects of network...
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Architecture Sessions at NT Conference 2013
At NT conference 2013 I hade 3 sessions in 2 different PreCon tracks. Apart from the one on connected apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 I had 2 consecutive ones, both covering the topic of design...
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Windows Store LOB Apps Session at NT Conference 2013
On the final day of NT Conference 2013 I had my last session. This time I was speaking about my experiences with building LOB (line of business) applications for Windows Store. As always, slides and...
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Calling Task-based Asynchronous Methods from Class Constructors
Task-based asynchronous pattern has many advantages over other asynchronous patterns introduced in the past, most of them boiling down to the fact that it’s really easy to get into and start using it....
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Book Review: Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development With F#
Once again I got my hands on a review copy of a book by Packt publishing. This time it was Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development with F# by Lohith G.N. I'm probably not its main target audience,...
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Inconsistent Exceptions for WinRT File Operations
Recently I encountered strange and inconsistent behavior in exceptions being thrown by different file operations in WinRT. Let’s start with a snippet: Although there is a file named Text.txt in Assets...
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NuGet Package Restore for Projects in Multiple Solutions
If you’ve only been using NuGet in typical scenarios with a single solution containing a couple of projects, it probably worked great for you. As soon as the project structure is a bit more complex,...
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