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A VSIX is a way to install plugins into Visual Studio. The kind of plugin I'm interested in right...

Date: 06/27/2016

I'm fed up with clunky dialog-based UIs. Here are two apps, the Windows 7 Calculator and Windows 10...

Date: 06/14/2016

I got OpenCV to work via NuGet! Here are the steps to consume it: 1. File > New > C++ > UWP...

Date: 12/03/2015

With the release of 10586, I’ve wanted to know whether an API I just used was newly introduced...

Date: 12/02/2015

[This article documents my ongoing attempts to get OpenCV working in UWP apps] My goal is to figure...

Date: 11/30/2015

[This blog article documents my continuing mission to figure out how to use OpenCV in UWP apps...]...

Date: 11/27/2015

OpenCV https://opencv.org/ is the standard open-source library that everyone uses for image...

Date: 11/25/2015

There are some exciting changes coming to NuGet in VS2015 RTM, under the name NuGet 3.1, also known...

Date: 09/15/2015

If you use VS2015 to create a new UWP project, there are three interesting things in the References...

Date: 08/19/2015

[I've removed this old article, and posted a revised+edited version here]

Date: 07/27/2015

This is Part 7 of my "VB Win10 Apps" series. (Everything applies to C# as well, of course). Part 1:...

Date: 06/12/2015

This is Part 6 of my "VB Win10 Apps" series. (Everything applies to C# as well, of course). Part 1:...

Date: 06/09/2015

This is Part 5 of my "VB Win10 Apps" series. (Everything applies to C# as well, of course). Part 1:...

Date: 06/05/2015

This is Part 4 of my "VB Win10 Apps" series. (Everything applies to C# as well, of course). Part 1:...

Date: 06/01/2015

This is Part 3 of my "VB Win10 Apps" series. Part 1: getting started Part 2: issues with common...

Date: 05/21/2015

This is Part 2 of my "VB Win10 Apps" series. Part 1: getting started > Part 2: issues with common...

Date: 05/20/2015

How do you write a "connected device+cloud" app that works, and doesn't crash when the user walks...

Date: 05/20/2015

This is Part 1 of my "VB Win10 Apps" series. (this list is just my rough thoughts on what to write....

Date: 05/18/2015

Last year I wrote about getting good exception stack traces for async code. Now I've cleaned it up,...

Date: 08/24/2014

(Update: Mr Flakey asked me to tell everyone that he's now available as a NuGet package) It's a fact...

Date: 08/08/2014

On your phone/tablet, which do you prefer -- apps or websites? Do you look up stuff more frequently...

Date: 07/18/2014

What should we do in case of re-entrancy? For example, if the user clicks the button twice in rapid...

Date: 03/03/2014

I find it frustrating to assemble photos from different devices - my wife's iPhone, my Windows...

Date: 12/18/2013

Mads Torgersen recently gave a talk called “The Future of C#”, where he described some...

Date: 12/13/2013

I've talked about async best practices a lot, and each time I've tried to refine the talk a little...

Date: 11/22/2013

Users expect Windows8.1 apps to resize gracefully - either when they "snap" the app to a particular...

Date: 10/22/2013

I need to generate PDF from my Windows Phone app. Unfortunately none of the standard free...

Date: 08/15/2013

(update: I've written an updated blog post about this. Also I made it available on NuGet as package...

Date: 08/15/2013

I gave three talks on Async at TechEd Europe. These cover everything you need to know about async,...

Date: 06/28/2013

How do you combine MVVM with async? -- Well, really, there's not much to it. Just the same as...

Date: 02/26/2013

Talk: The New Async Design Patterns Async involves some new concepts. They're not difficult; just...

Date: 02/17/2013

Talk: Async Part 2 - for architects, under the hood This talk tackles some more advanced async...

Date: 02/17/2013

[This post is part of a series How to await a storyboard, and other things] The normal behavior of...

Date: 12/11/2012

[This post is part of a series How to await a storyboard, and other things] I want to invoke an...

Date: 12/07/2012

I’m a big fan of supporting cancellation on async methods. I was recently wondering how to do...

Date: 12/07/2012

[This post is part of a series How to await a storyboard, and other things] Sometimes we want to...

Date: 11/28/2012

[This post is part of a series How to await a storyboard, and other things] In my app, I want to...

Date: 11/28/2012

[This post is part of a series How to await a storyboard, and other things] Let’s look at...

Date: 11/28/2012

This post is part of a series about an important new design pattern, awaiting events... I also made...

Date: 11/28/2012

[update: there's now a sequel to this post, here, which improves the technique so it can handle...

Date: 11/23/2012

We all know that async methods return Task or Task(Of T): Async Function GetNameAsync() As Task(Of...

Date: 11/21/2012

In VS2012 we fixed some method-resolution problems from VS2010. These were method-calls that failed...

Date: 07/19/2012

On June 6th I'll be speaking at the Norway Developer Conference in Oslo, on the subject "How we do...

Date: 05/24/2012

Talk: Async Part 1 - the message-loop, and the Task type After giving lots of training and talks...

Date: 03/28/2012

Talk: What's new in VB11 This talk details some of what's new in VB11. (Just some: there were too...

Date: 03/28/2012

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