Filip ‘xyzzer’ Skakun
UX passionate, NUI/GUI UI developer, specializing in Microsoft technologies from WinAPI and GDI through WinForms to Surface/WPF/Silverlight, DirectX & WinRT. Developer at Vectoform by day. My words are mine and mine only.
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Tag Archives: WinRT
WinRT XAML Toolkit is Growing
Updated WinRT XAML Toolkit on CodePlex – a set of controls, extensions and helper classes for Windows Runtime XAML applications Features
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Tagged async/await, AsyncUI, C#, WinRT, WriteableBitmap, WriteableBitmapEx, XAML
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WinRT XAML Toolkit
There it is. No time to write about it or make it pretty, but you forced me to publish it, CodePlex, so there it is…. http://bit.ly/WinRTXamlToolkit
WinRT/Metro Style App Data
I was trying to find out where the WinRT apps files are stored and found 3 locations. Not sure how much benefit would be in digging deeper, but this could help in debugging your or reverse engineering someone else’s applications…
A path from C/C++ to C# and back to C++
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
Posted in Computers and Internet, Uncategorized
Tagged .NET, C#, C++/CLI, C++/CX, DirectX, Windows 8, WinRT
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Asynchronous UI development in WinRT, Silverlight, Windows Phone & WPF with async/await keywords of C# 5.0
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
Posted in CodeProject, Computers and Internet
Tagged async/await, AsyncUI, C#, Silverlight, Windows Forms, WinRT, WPF
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Displaying Webcam Preview in a Metro App Using WinRT and XAML
I was looking at the controls available in WinRT () and I’ve stumbled upon this control called – CaptureElement. What it does is it “Represents a media capture from a capture device, for example recorded video content.” I thought I’d … Continue reading
GridSplitters – Part 3: Limiting the Range of a GridSplitter
Sometimes I look at what people search for when they hit my blog and see some trending questions that don’t seem to have easily findable answers. This one seems to be related to how to set the limit for moving … Continue reading
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Tagged Grid, GridSplitter, Silverlight, WinRT, WPF, XAML
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Beginning WinRT Development – Part 2: Learning Resources
This is just a short post that I will likely update in the future. A where to start/how to ramp up sort of link list on WinRT development. Main Reference Resources http://dev.windows.com – Windows Dev Center Home http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/Build2011?sort=sequential&direction=desc&term=&t=windows%2Bruntime – Build … Continue reading
Dissecting WinRT UserControl
UserControl seems to be one of the most commonly used controls in XAML languages. It most often is at the root of your XAML file structure and usually encapsulates reusable pieces of XAML. Let’s take a look at the class … Continue reading
Beginning WinRT development
I finally found some time to take a look at Windows 8 development + a shiny Build edition Samsung Series 7 Slate device, so it is time to start taking apart this WinRT development thing.I am starting by setting up … Continue reading
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Tagged C#, UserControl, Visual Studio, Windows 8, WinRT, XAML
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