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How to use Font Icons

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What is the issue with images? The problem with images is that if you try to zoom in, the quality starts to be really bad (ugly pixels) without even talking about the size of it. The best way to display nice icons in your app or website is to use Font Icons. Like that you […]

UWP – How to get the close app event

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Basically, what we want here is to be able to catch the close event of our UWP app. We could go further and ask the users if they want to save their changes before the Exit. In the App.xaml.cs: Here, it is important to put the CloseRequested event before the Activate of the View. Then, add the code for […]

UWP – UI Thread and Multiple Views

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What is “multiple view” in UWP? In UWP, your “main” application can open a new – separated – view. Here is a link from the Microsoft website. When should you use multiple views? In many cases it is useful to be able to open multiple views: – An email app that lets users view a […]

UWP – Theme Overview

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How to get current Windows 10 Theme? In the namespace Windows.UI.ViewManagement, you can Access to the UISettings class. It will allow you to get the Window background and deduce the current theme. How to set the theme when multiple views are open? You must iterate all the views via the CoreApplication. Secondly, you can go […]

C# – MongoDB

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Here is a simple example of how to use MongoDB with C#. What is MongoDB? MongoDB is a cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with schema. How to use the MongoDB? Because MongoDB has to run on a server, you then have two options: install it or […]

WPF – ProgressBar

WPF - ProgressBar

In this simple example, we will see how to create and manipulate the ProgressBar control from WPF in a MVVM way. Let’s start with the View in XAML: And now the ViewModel: Happy coding! 🙂

MongoDB Realm – Simple example

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Here is a simple example on how to use MongoDB Realm with C#. What is MongoDB Realm? MongoDB Realm will combine Realm, the popular mobile database and data synchronization technology, and MongoDB Stitch, the serverless platform for MongoDB, into a unified solution that makes it easy for you to build powerful and engaging experiences on […]

Xamarin IOS – Manage InputTextView size and scrolling

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Introduction This post is linked to my previous one about the keyboard (available here). The idea now is to manage InputTextView size and scrolling correctly. It’s a nightmare to scroll inside a small input. That is the reason why the scrolling is disabled until the height reach the middle of the screen. In the screenshot […]