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Hello, Windows 10: Getting Started Developing
This is post 1 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” Today is a big day in the history of Microsoft; the long-awaited Windows 10 release is finally here, bringing a whole new level of...
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Windows 10 Development: Upgrading from Preview SDK to Release
This is post 2 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” Before diving into the main parts of our series, there may be some of you (like me!) that were already building apps with the preview SDK...
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Introducing Falafel2Go for Windows 10
This is post 3 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” Now that Windows 10 is live, it made sense for Falafel to dive right in, updating our showcase demo app Falafel2Go to take advantage of...
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Windows 10 Development: Getting Started with the MVVM Light Toolkit
This is post 4 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” In the next few posts we’ll dive into the basics of using the MVVM Light Toolkit with Windows 10 to build a simple project two-page with...
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Windows 10 Development: Adding Design-Time Data with Blend
This is post 5 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” In our last post, we installed the MVVM Light Toolkit and defined the basic framework for a simple two-page app with the MVVM pattern....
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Windows 10 Development: Adding Simple Navigation
This is post 6 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” So far we’ve setup a few pages with some design-time data to help us layout the app, but running it still yields a blank screen with no...
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Windows 10 Development: Maintaining Application State
This is post 7 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” We have so far created a simple app with two pages, that uses simple Frame navigation to go back and forth. However, the app is still...
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Windows 10 Development: MvvmLight NavigationService and the Behaviors SDK
This is post 8 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” Following our last post, we now have a solid framework for our app to handle state and lifecycle. However, at this point we are still...
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Windows 10 Development: SplitView
This is post 9 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” Now that we have a simple but solid foundation for a complete Windows 10 app, let’s take a tour through some of the brand new controls...
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Windows 10 Development: RelativePanel
This is post 10 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” Another new control in the Windows 10 Developer toolbox is the RelativePanel, a layout container which enables flexible positioning...
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Windows 10 Development: Creating a UniformGrid Container
This is post 11 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” This post describes the need for and implementation of a UniformGrid layout control that, when used with a ListView, allows the repeated...
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Windows 10 Development: UI Automation with Blend and VisualStateManager
This is post 12 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” In our previous post we built a UniformGrid container for the ListView, resulting in an evenly-spaced, grid-like view for the main...
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Windows 10 Development: Responsive Design with AdaptiveTriggers
This is post 13 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” In the previous post we looked at the basics of UI automation in Windows 10 apps using Blend to declare the XAML for Visual States....
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Windows 10 Development: Custom StateTriggers
This is post 14 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” We’ve seen how the Windows 10 AdaptiveTrigger can help you create a dynamic responsive UI based on the height or width of the device or...
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Particle Photon Oscilloscope
I previously turned my Windows IoT Core-based Raspberry Pi 2 into an oscilloscope, but I didn’t stop there. The next gadget in my target is the Particle Photon. This is an amazing little device....
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Exploring Multi-Photon and Particle Cloud Functionality with a Useless Machine
There are many ways for Particle Photons to interact with each other. Even more ways for other devices and apps to interact with Photons through the Particle Cloud. To explore these capabilities, I...
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Solved: Windows 10 Anniversary Update Install Hang
Over the weekend, Windows Update alerted me that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update was available to be installed onto my Thinkpad W530 laptop. Since I was anxious to try out the new Bash shell...
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How to Use Multiple Panes in a Bash Console
Windows 10 recently released a Linux subsystem that allows you to run Linux programs on Windows. There is a little bit of magic involved with how they integrated the two operating systems, as Scott...
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Using Google Services in UWP C# Apps – Part 1
This is post 16 of 17 in the series “Google Cloud for the .NET Developer” It’s no secret that I love Windows, and especially writing UWP apps for Windows using C#. In fact I’ve written a bit about...
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