Timeline

February 06, 2018 in Timeline, UWP

Timeline is a great way Windows drives a productive user experience. As a developer you can enrich this experience by having your application participate in Timeline in a meaningful way. It can also lead to a greater user engagement because users now have another way to directly launch your app.

Uh oh, low battery - battery information in a UWP

August 29, 2015 in UWP, Triggers, VisualStateManager

The low battery logo puts fear in most. It's the moment where humans do whatever they can to ensure their beloved mobile device does not die. This post is going to show how you can help users with just a few lines of code. It'll help you be a good citizen on your users devices and ensure that you respect their battery life

The basics of creating a responsive UWP application

August 10, 2015 in SplitView, UWP, RelativePanel, VisualStateManager, Triggers

This post is going to show you how to create a basic responsive UWP application utilizing the SplitView, RelativePanel and VisualStateManager. So sit back, relax and enjoy!

Aug 28, 2018

Supercharge your experiences with the Microsoft Graph

M365 is a term you'll be hearing more frequently from Microsoft, but for a developer, what does this really mean? In this post I'll show you how you can supercharge your Windows/Cross Platform/Web experience to utilize the vast array of M365 services from Email, Calendar, Excel and Insights.

Jun 18, 2018

Fody - INotifyPropertyChanged the easy way

INotifyPropertyChanged is chiseled into the brain of every XAML developer. It provides amazing data binding power, but it has one drawback for me - code bloat. What I would love is a simpler version which keeps my code true. That is where Fody comes in. Under the hood Fody weaves INotifyPropertyChanged at compile time.

Feb 6, 2018

Jan 10, 2018

My People

My People makes it easy to stay connected with contacts you often engage with. My People gives users the ability to pin their favourite contact to the task bar. Users can interact with their contact through voice, video, and text from the task bar. This makes it quick and easy to use without distracting your flow.