One great detail Microsoft forgot to tell about the Windows 8.1 Flyout control
Have you ever had to create a popup that positions itself near a clicked button? Yes? Then you know how easy it is to create that popup. And how hard it is to get it right! You probably created a...
View ArticleCreate and use icon fonts in a Windows Store App
Are you using PNG icons in your Windows Store application? Windows 8.1 supports a large variety of new hardware, including lot’s of different screen resolutions and maintaining PNGs for smaller and...
View ArticleWe couldn’t get your developer license for Windows 8.1
Visual Studio has a great way to get me out of my workflow by popping up this message every month: Today I was coding happily when I got the message but this time, it was followed by this more serious...
View ArticleSave XAML as PNG in a Windows Store App
Do you want to create thumbnails, attachments or other bitmappy representations of your XAML? Very good. After reading this tutorial, you will know how to save any XAML-thingy as a PNG and save it to...
View ArticleChoosing a specific master page for each Windows Store App page
At 6Wunderkinder we are creating the Windows Store Version (WinRT) of Wunderlist. Our app basically has two kinds of pages. One is where you are logged in and one is where you are not logged in. We use...
View ArticleFirst aid for detecting memory leaks in a Windows Store App
Before submitting your Windows 8 app to the Windows Store, it never hurts checking for memory problems. This article is about detecting these problems in an early stage of development. I’ll show you a...
View ArticleCross platform development with C#
Are you writing apps for multiple platforms? Do you wonder what you can and cannot share when writing C# for Windows Phone, Windows 8 and WPF? Me and Christian Lang tell you all about it! We’ve...
View ArticleChange XAML designer background color in Visual Studio
If you use the Visual Studio 2013 XAML designer with the light theme enabled and you are designing user controls or pages with transparent backgrounds, it might be hard to read the text: Solution One...
View ArticleUse Reactive Extensions to throttle TextChanged events and subscribe to...
Download the demo project RxSearch Are you new to Reactive Extensions and looking for a quick tutorial on how to perform a few common tasks in a Windows Store App? In this tutorial you will learn how...
View ArticleUse Reactive Extensions to merge KeyEvents and MouseClicks to close a window
After reading this post, you’ve learned how to convert MouseClick and KeyDown events into observable collections. You’ll see how you can even make these collections more convenient by merging them...
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