Windows Store Applications allow the user to change the size of the application and change the the layout to e vertical or horizontal. in order to provide god user experience we want adapt our vie...

When working with log4net you usually want that each class will have a named logger with the class full name (Namespace+Name). the Log4Net examples shows this pattern: ? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 pub...

Caliburn.Micro provides many extensions to make our life easier. One of them is the ability to handle UI events and trigger a method call in the ViewModel. It is very similar to what you get when u...

There are times when you want two or more elements in your XAML to share the same dimensions, usually you dint want to deal with static sizes and prefer that after an element got its size from the ...

I didnt find any documenation to this method other than the thread in StackOverflow: <A title=http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19510449/disk-space-in-winrt-using-c-sharp-in-windows-8 href="htt...

When you want to display a dislog screen in windows store apps, you can use Flyout, MessageDialog or Popup the first two should be used for the simple cases – message prompts, question, basic user ...

In my Windows 8.1 project I wanted to use the SQLite PCL library. I Installed it from nuget and everything worked great so I committed the changes to the source control and moved on. When my collea...

I received a call from a client last week about bad performance in their WPF application. It turns out that they expected that some view that holds a tree will need to show a few tens of items BUT ...

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When we create applications we usually want to make them easy to use by our users. One way to make application more accessible internationally is to make it localized to the users’ language and...