WP8 client WCF service time difference
One of my projects is a Windows Phone application that enable homecare workers to get information about the patient they have to visit, report any problems with those clients and register the time they...
View ArticleWP8 popup menu in the application bar
The Windows Phone mail application has a nice method to bypass the limitation of 4 items in the app bar. When you press the “response” button a pop-up appears, which let you choose “Reply”, “Reply all”...
View ArticleGet brush from hex color in WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone
For an app I created I needed to create a solidcolorbrush from hex RGB string. Seems a simple task, but there is no simple way of doing this. But I’ve created simple method that does just this: public...
View ArticleUse XAML resource in WPF IValueConverter
If you don’t want to hardcoded styles and colors in you WPF, Silverlight or WP7 project you’ve probably added some styles and predefined colors in the APP.XAML file: <Style TargetType="TextBlock"...
View ArticleUse the WP8 appbar in ANY MVVM framework
While some frameworks, like Caliburn.Micro,have the possibility the use the appbar button with no code at all in the cod behind file, most frameworks don’t. This blogpost explains how you can use the...
View ArticleMVVMlight button in DataTemplate
For a major project I’m currently working on I needed to add a button to the items in a ListPicker. This projects uses MVVMLight as MVVM framework, so I have to use the RelayCommand for the handling of...
View ArticleThe best tools for software development
Here is a list of tools I you when developing software and for the reason I use that tool. Of course there are many other tools that do similar things and that are preferred by other people. Try all...
View ArticleLoad an external image in a universal app
When I was playing with a Universal App, an app with code shared between Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1, I noticed that loading an image from an externel source isn’t as easy as it should be. What...
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