This post is part of a series about creating Windows Store-apps with XAML and C#. Find the Content of the series here: Windows Store-apps with XAML and C# blog-series Last weekend I’ve finished the XAML-chapter of my upcoming book about developing Windows Store-apps with XAML and C#. I want to share...

Since yesterday evening Winodws 8 RTM is out for developers. This blogpost is the start of a blog-series about developing Windows Store-apps with XAML and C#. The series consists of some informational and some “how-to” posts: XAML in Windows Store-apps Understanding Modern UI, WinRT and .NET (for Windows...

Yesterday morning Microsoft launched Windows 8 at the BUILD-conference in Anaheim. Windows 8 has a completely new tile- and touch-based UI with the Metro-Style we already know from Windows Phone 7. For us as Developers the big question was how to develop applications for Windows 8. Microsoft already...

Everyone who has worked with WPF knows the interface INotifyPropertyChanged. It only defines the PropertyChanged-event, that should be called when a property’s value has been changed. The PropertyChanged-event is used by WPF’s Data Binding. Normally a class fires the event in the set-Accessors...

In many applications you want to fill up a ListView or a GridView with some data. In WPF applications you set the View-Property of the ListView to a GridView to show the data nicely in columns. In most cases you have an entity class (think of it as a "real" entity class or a DataRow [...]

Wednesday at TechEd was another "linqy" day for me. In the morning I joined the session "LINQ to XML", with speaker Mike Taulty. With LINQ to XML there is a new XML-API as Part of .NET 3.5 which sits in the namespace System.Xml.Linq. LINQ to XML makes it easy to create and edit XML documents...

On the second day at TechEd, the first session I joined had the title "Cool Looking 3D visualizations with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)" (Speaker: Dennis Vroegop). The WPF has a "built-in" 3D-API, and this session showed what you can do with 3D in your business applications...