Monthly Archives: February 2012

A path from C/C++ to C# and back to C++

Posted on Sunday, 2012-02-26 by

About ten years ago I started my first full time programming job. I was working on some business software written in C/C++. I say C/C++ instead of just C++ because it was written mostly in C with classes – with … Continue reading →

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BindableApplicationBar for Windows Phone – Now On NuGet

Posted on Sunday, 2012-02-19 by

With some help from Shawn Oster – I had the BindableApplicationBar published on NuGet. Now there is no need to search for sources or assemblies on CodePlex if you need to quickly create an MVVM-friendly ApplicationBar. Just right-click on your … Continue reading →

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Asynchronous UI development in WinRT, Silverlight, Windows Phone & WPF with async/await keywords of C# 5.0

Posted on Thursday, 2012-02-16 by

This is a reblog of my article from http://labs.vectorform.com C# 5.0 comes with the new async/await keywords that make asynchronous code easier to write, read and maintain. This is very nice if you have properly declared methods that support this … Continue reading →

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