[Windows 8] How to perform horizontal scrolling with mouse wheel in Webview...
Scrolling in Windows Store applications is mostly done in horizontal mode. This is something quite easy to do with the GridView which support scrolling with mouse wheel but this can be a quite more...
View Article[Windows 8] How to launch an app using NFC tags?
Here is a quick (but quite useful) tip for anyone who want to use NFC tags on its application. NFC tags can be used on Windows (Phone) to open Internet links but they can also be used to open a...
View Article[Windows 8] Provide search suggestions based on local files
Windows Store Applications allows developers to provide search suggestions to users, so they can find quickly what they are looking for. For example, you can provide search suggestions using a Web...
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[Windows 8.1] Managing multiples users accounts in your Windows Store...
Most of the apps available are used by single users but imagine you want to develop an application that will allow users to switch user accounts. This lead us to, at least, 2 majors issues: how to...
View Article[Windows 8] Prevent display to turn off when users does not interact with...
Today, we are going to see a small but useful tip for those who want to prevent a screen to turn off while there is no user activity. This might be useful, for example, if there are some videos playing...
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[Windows (Phone) 8] How to submit a form and retrieve results in your...
Recently, I started to work on a Windows Phone application with all the data available through a Website (thanks to HtmlAgilityPack for helping me to parse the webpages). All the parsing was quite easy...
View Article[Windows (Phone)8] How to animate the apparition of ListBoxItems ?
On Silverlight/Windows Phone, the FluidMoveBehavior can be used to animate the items of a ListBox when user adds or removes an item. But the behavior has no effect when the items are loaded and bound...
View Article[Windows (Phone) 8] Start an animation on the selected ListBoxItem during...
Ok, I admit the title is a bit long and you may wonder what I’m talking about so let me explain. On the application I’m working, I use a Listbox to display items and I wanted to start an animation when...
View Article[Windows 8(.1)] How to load items incrementally when using a FlipView ?
The FlipView control is very useful to display a set of data and display them with a DataTemplate. But imagine that you need to load 1000000 of customers: you’ll need to load all of them and set the...
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[Windows 8(.1)] Introduction to Prism for the Windows Runtime
Early 2014, the Patterns & Practices teams at Microsoft released a new version of the Prism library, dedicated to the creation of business apps using C# and XAML on Windows 8.1 (a version for...
View Article[WinRT] How to scan documents in a Windows 8.1 application ?
WinRT introduced a set of new APIs that developers can use to manipulate scanners (compatible with WIA, Windows Imaging Acquisition) on Windows 8.1 applications. As you’ll see, the API is pretty...
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[UWP] Sending Push Notifications from an Azure WebJob to any UWP applications...
For a small side project I’m working on, I wanted to easily send push notifications to my UWP application. So I’ve decided to use the Notifications Hub (which is, in fact, a wrapper around the...
View ArticleCreate your own spying camera system with Microsoft Azure and a UWP application!
At home, I have a cool Raspberry Pi 2 and an USB LifeCam VX-6000 webcam that, for now, I don’t use for nothing. So I thought I could probably use both to create a little application that will allow me...
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