When you plan to build a new enterprise line-of-business application, you have many choices as a .NET developer for the client-side technology: WPF Windows Forms UWP Xamarin Angular with TypeScript … By enterprise line-of-business application I...

To use data from Office 365 Services, like Azure AD, OneDrive, Outlook etc., you can use a single API-endpoint called Microsoft Graph. Everything to get started with the Microsoft Graph is available at the portal under http://graph.microsoft.io. The steps...

Nice example of a race condition on MSDN Forums, because the Binding is running on a different thread and won’t update in time. Let’s look at the problem: There’s this Storyboard in the MainWindow to animate the Rectangle with the name...

On the Microsoft MSDN-Forums there was a question how to open up a Combobox in an MVVM-scenario from the ViewModel. To do this, you use the typical MVVM way: You define a bool-Property in the ViewModel to control the DropDown. Here I named it IsDropDownOpen...

While creating apps with the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) I noticed a behavior that I was not used to, as it works different in WPF. I’m not sure if it’s a bug. Let’s just call it the “Master-Detail-Problem”. To explain it, I stripped  down my...

Last week I was at the developer week conference in Germany / Nürnberg. It was a great conference with fantastic people and great sessions. I gave two talks: S.O.L.I.D.-principles for C# Developers Test Driven Development and MVVM: How to write testable...

To push events into Azure Event Hub you can use the Nuget-package WindowsAzure.ServiceBus (https://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAzure.ServiceBus/). That package works pretty straight forward, but there’s one problem: It has been built for the .NET Framework...

To develop mobile applications today you have many options you can do it native in Swift/Objective C for iOS, in Java for Android or in C# for Windows Mobile you can build a web-app with popular JavaScript-Frameworks like Angular and use Apache Cordova...

Sometimes you need to have an application running in the background. Then you don’t want your MainWindow to be visible all the time. Instead you just want to have an icon in the notification area that allows the user to open up the MainWindow and to exit...

Woohoo, I’ve received the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award for 2015 in the category “Windows Platform Development”. To me there’s no other award comparable to this one. The MVP award means that I have the best possibilities to stay...

In several models like W540/T540 etc. Lenovo has replaced the hardware-buttons for the Trackpoint with a big Touchpad. It looks like this: I own a W540 and as a hardcore-Trackpoint-user it’s really a pain not to have the hardware-buttons. 50% of your...

This year at BASTA! Spring in Darmstadt/Germany I had a great time (like all the years before at that great conference). I gave three sessions (see Talks) and a keynote together with Jörg Neumann, Oliver Sturm and Mirko Schrempp. The keynote was about...

In 2006 I started working with the first preview versions of the Windows Presentation Foundation with my Trivadis fellow Christoph Pletz. We wrote 2007 the very first German article about MVVM and 2008 I published my first book with the title “Windows...

I loved my Surface RT from the beginning. The reason why I preferred the Surface RT over the Surface Pro was that the Surface Pro was to small for me as a Notebook, and to heavy as a tablet. So I was always the Notebook+tablet-guy, and not the one-device...

Wow, I’ve just received the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award for 2014 in the new area “Windows Platform Development”. Thanks to all the people who made that possible. Thanks to all the readers of my books & articles, thanks to the...

At this year’s spring edition of the BASTA! Conference (http://basta.net/2014se/) I gave three talks: Windows 8.1 – UI Neuerungen All you need to know about XAML Asynchronous Programming with C# Thanks to all the people joining my sessions. I hope you...

Thanks to all who joined my sessions at TechDays in Basel. Also a big thanks to Microsoft Switzerland for organizing this great and successful event. I really enjoyed the two days of networking with awesome people. Please find the slides and demos of...

Wow, on 1st of July I’ve received my very first Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. I received it in the area “Client Development”. Thanks to all the people out there in the .NET/C#/XAML-community, thanks to all the readers of my books,...

Wow, it’s done. The ultimate handbook about Windows Store Apps with XAML and C# is printed and available. You can order your copy of the German-written 1146-pages-book on amazon: Amazon.de: Windows Store Apps – das umfassende Handbuch Find more information...

At BASTA! (.NET-conference in Mainz/Germany) I gave an interview about Windows 8 and developing Windows Store Apps. You can watch it directly here: You can also read an article about the topic here: Link to article Thomas

In Windows Store Apps there are three kinds of Touch-Events: Gesture Events – those are high-level-events like Tapped or RightTapped. Pointer-Events – low-level-events like PointerPressed, PointerMoved, PointerReleased. Manipulation-Events – low-level...

I’m proud to announce that the ultimate handbook about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in .NET 4.5 is in stores now. Order your copy of the German-Speaking Topseller about WPF directly here on Amazon: Order WPF-Book on Amazon.de Find all the Details...

Danke für die zahlreiche Teilnahme an meiner Session zu den WinRT-Controls zum Entwickeln von Windows Store Apps. Es war eine Level 3 (von 3) Session. Wie versprochen sind die Slides und Live-Demos unter folgendem Link verfügbar: www.thomasclaudiushuber...

Am Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2012, veranstalten Microsoft und Trivadis in Glattbrugg (Zürich) ein kostenfreies Event rund um Windows 8, Windows Store Apps & Co. Allerdings sollten Sie sich für eine Anmeldung beeilen, da die Anzahl der Teilnehmer beschränkt...

Die BASTA! ist vorbei. Vielen Dank an die Teilnehmer, die Aussteller, die Organisatoren und natürlich besonders an die Besucher meiner Sessions und der Keynote. Mir hat es sehr viel Spaß gemacht und ich freue mich bereits auf die BASTA! Spring in Darmstadt...