Throttling Window size changes in UWP apps

With the arrival of Windows 10, Microsoft did away with the fullscreen only apps, and gave our UWP beauties the ability to run in windows. (hehe) But by doing that, we got a few new responsibilities:

• handling the title bar,

Let’s talk about UWP (and Microsoft), and what it means for PCMR

Reverse engineering the Unity Network Discovery protocol

Little bites of Xaml #4: {x:Bind is even cooler}

In the Anniversary Update of Windows 10 the {x:Bind} feature got some well deserved new tricks as well.

Before we head in, two important things to note:

• these features only work if you set the…

Abusing CustomResource for fun and profit: hello MarkupExtensions ;)

(and introducing my UWP library Groves)

As we all know there’re still a bunch of things that are missing from UWP — some painful, some not that much. Usually…

Windows Apps and GDPR

A quick disclaimer before venturing in: I’m not a legal expert, and the following is not legal advice. The purpose of this post is to give an overview of GDPR’s influence upon your average Windows App Developer.

X-Files: C#

When I open up the Medium editor, it displays a placeholder telling me “Tell your story…”. So that’s what I’m going to do. This is the story of Line 154 in the file SpecialDaySlotItemControl.cs. You’d think that there’s not much to write about a single line of c# code, especially when that line doesn’t…

Little bites of Xaml #1: Animating changes in a TextBlock’s text easily