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WPF, Chrome Embedded and WebApi Self-hosted
Building “rich desktop clients” is not a very easy task. WPF can be a good choice for “fat” Windows Apps, but if you have zero knowledge in XAML you might end up in hell, because… XAML, right? If you...
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Nothing to do next weekend? Come to Leipzig and join the Developer Open Space...
The Developer Open Space is not a typical developer conference: There are no fixed speakers or topics, just many other tech lovers who wants to learn or sharetheir knowledge.The Open Space was started...
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XML deserialize to abstract class, interface or base class
Let’s assume we have the following XML structure:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"...
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Working with JumpLists in WPF Apps
JumpLists?JumpLists were introduced with Windows 7 and if it they are implemented right are pretty handy, because it can provide common functionality.A real world example:JumpLists with .NETIn pre .NET...
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Serving embedded resources with ASP.NET WebApi
Embedded files? Why?In a normal Web-Application all files are somehow stored as files in the app directory, but sometimes it could be handy to embed those files.One scenario could be that you have a...
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Working with FontIcons in UWP
FontIcons in UWPMicrosoft ships one builtin UWP (Universal Windows Platform) SymbolIcon class.The good thing about such FontIcons is, that you can scale and change the appearances very nice and don’t...
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Shipping Visual C++ 2015 redistributable DLLs with your app or how to do an...
Small warning: I’m not a C++ devWe use VC++ just for a very small part of our application, but this part needs the VC++ 2015 runtime “installed” on the client, but we don’t want the UAC install dialog....
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ExpensiveMeeting - a Universal Windows Platform OSS app using Template10
ExpensiveMeetingThe app - which is just a fun project and shouldn’t be taken too seriously - is like a stopwatch for meetings. But instead of the pure time it shows you also the burned money for your...
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Pretty Print XML in .NET
Pretty PrintThe term “pretty print” describes that a document is more or less human readable formatted. So instead of this:<Foo><Bar><Buzz></Buzz></Bar></Foo>You...
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Using Travis CI for GitHub Pages builds
Short recap: GitHub Pages & JekyllThis blog is powered by GitHub Pages, which uses Jekyll in the background. Jekyll is a static website generator, which means that this page is “build” and has no...
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Using FontAwesome in UWP apps
FontAwesome in WPF and Fonts in UWPI blogged about how to use FontAwesome in WPF last year and wrote a short blogpost about the nice FontIcon class in UWP. With the help of the FontIcon class I could...
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Parsing XML Schemas in .NET
XML SchemasXML can be very verbose and seems to be old-fashioned, but the good part around XML is, that there is a hugh pile of standardized mechanics around it. To query XML documents you can use...
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XML Autocompletion with AvalonEdit
AvalonEditAvalonEdit is a text editor WPF control, used and created by the SharpDevelop team. It comes with some nice features, like code folding support, text highlighting and infrastructure for...
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Debugging .NET based Windows Error Reports (WER)
.The last hope: Windows Error ReportsThe “Windows Error Report” (WER) is automatically generated by Windows and can be seen in the Eventlog. In most cases, you might see some other - debugging...
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Get the Windows 10 or 8 accent color in WPF
.Windows Accent ColorSince Windows 8 users can choose a system accent color. The color can be seen on the window borders of the default apps and it can be pretty easy be used inside a UWP App.How to...
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Copy to clipboard with Javascript
Clipboard? Current state of the art…I think everybody knows the clipboard. The goal is that we can store text inside the users clipboard, so he can just paste it. Most sites uses either Flash or some...
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FAKE: Build ASP.NET projects with web.config transformation (and without...
This is a follow-up to my other FAKE posts:“FAKE: Building C# projects without knowing a tiny bit of F#”“FAKE: Running xUnit Tests with FAKE without knowing a tiny bit of F#”“FAKE: Create NuGet...
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CAKE: Building solutions with C# & Roslyn
CAKE - C# MakeA DSL for build tasks (e.g. build following projects, copy stuff, deploy stuff etc.)It’s just C# code that gets compiled via RoslynActive community, OSS & written in C#You can get...
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TFS 2015: Adding a new Windows Build Agent
The TFS 2015 Build SystemThe build system before TFS 2015 was based on a pretty arcane XAML workflow engine which was manageable, but not fun to use. With TFS 2015 a new build system was implemented,...
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Lets convert a WPF app to the Universal Windows Platform
Project Centennial - running desktop apps in the UWP worldLast year Microsoft revealed the plans to run and distribute desktop apps (basically all apps ever written for Windows) in the...
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