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Tracking Objects with Pixy Visual Sensor on Raspberry Pi using Windows 10 IoT Core

by Victor Dashevsky

Processing the positioning information of visual objects detected by Pixy camera and received on Raspberry Pi via I2C, and using common design patterns in a C# program parsing robotics sensor data

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (7 of N)

by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 7 Saving journal entries in the file system

UWP Alien Sokoban - Part 3

by Daniel Vaughan

A fun UWP implementation of the game Sokoban, demonstrating some new features of XAML and C# 6.0. Part 3

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (4 of N)

by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 4 Adding Windows Controls (Building the DailyJournal app)

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A Spritesheet Library and Editor for Win2D

by g96b10

Win2D provides a neat API interface, but how do you render complex sprites for your game? I provide a library and editor to make this a streamlined process.

Edit Template or Edit Additional Templates in Visual Studio XAML without all the Bloat

by SoundersFan

How to edit templates in VS XAML without the bloat

RGF: A Save/Open Dialog Box with Cloud Capabilities

by Michael Chourdakis

Replace GetOpenFileName/GetSaveFileName with a new cloud API!

Creating a Settings Screen for UWP with Codon

by Daniel Vaughan

Create a dynamic settings screen for your UWP app. Add a setting with a single line of code.

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Universal Windows Platform

Tracking Objects with Pixy Visual Sensor on Raspberry Pi using Windows 10 IoT Core

26 May 2018 by Victor Dashevsky

Processing the positioning information of visual objects detected by Pixy camera and received on Raspberry Pi via I2C, and using common design patterns in a C# program parsing robotics sensor data

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (7 of N)

29 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 7 Saving journal entries in the file system

UWP Alien Sokoban - Part 3

26 Oct 2016 by Daniel Vaughan

A fun UWP implementation of the game Sokoban, demonstrating some new features of XAML and C# 6.0. Part 3

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (4 of N)

27 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 4 Adding Windows Controls (Building the DailyJournal app)

RGF: A Save/Open Dialog Box with Cloud Capabilities

31 May 2019 by Michael Chourdakis

Replace GetOpenFileName/GetSaveFileName with a new cloud API!

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (6 of N)

28 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 6 Programmatically Adding Tabs (Pivot) for Multiple entries in DailyJournal (includes CommandBar and Menu concepts)

Get Bing Image of the Day using C#

21 Aug 2016 by Keerat Singh

Get Bing Image of the Day using different methods for JSON parsing

UWP Form Validation with Calcium

22 Jan 2017 by Daniel Vaughan

Implementing synchronous and asynchronous form validation for XAML based apps.

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (5 of N)

28 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 5 Adding Tabs (Pivot) For Multiple Journal Entries

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (12 of N)

12 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 12 Working with the ListView - Setting up ListView style via XAML, using data binding and anonymous types in C#.

Generate Barcode and QR code in Windows Universal app

20 Mar 2016 by Sumit Samediya

In this article we will learn how to generate Barcode and QR code in Windows Universal App.

Simple software MIDI keyboard for UWP app

28 Mar 2017 by Eidorff

Simple software MIDI keyboard using Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (10 of N)

6 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 10 Refactoring sometimes means fixing bugs -- Getting the DailyJournal FileName format working.

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (11 of N)

7 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 11 LoadFileFromStorage - When changes from this chapter are complete you'll have an app which saves all entries and loads them from files.

Creating a Settings Screen for UWP with Codon

29 Mar 2019 by Daniel Vaughan

Create a dynamic settings screen for your UWP app. Add a setting with a single line of code.

Async Commands with Codon FX

1 Apr 2018 by Daniel Vaughan

Learn how to leverage the asynchronous ICommand implementation in Codon FX to support commands that kick-off long-running operations.

Creating Mixed Dimension application for HoloLens

15 Jun 2017 by Vinothkumar Arputharaj

This article will show how to create a mixed dimension (2d+3D) application on HoloLens and switch between 2D and 3D views

How To Push Updates to Raspberry Pi UWP Apps in Prod

27 May 2018 by Lee P Richardson

How to push updates to Raspberry Pi UWP apps in prod

21 Aug 2018 by Gene Cole (CFSW)

Integrating Sqlite into your Visual Studio/C# application.

Getting Elevation Data from a Bing Map

5 Jul 2018 by Gene Cole (CFSW)

Using HTTP with Bing Maps to get Elevation Data

Iterators and Snapshots for LevelDB UWP

13 Mar 2016 by Zohaib Sibte Hassan

A more detailed look into Iterators and Snapshots in LevelDB UWP

UWP Alien Sokoban - Part 2

18 Oct 2016 by Daniel Vaughan

A fun UWP implementation of the game Sokoban, demonstrating some new features of XAML and C# 6.0. Part 2

Programming Windows 10: UWP Focus (3 of N)

26 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 3: The Challenges of Making Our Apps Look Good

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (13 of N)

14 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForms) Chapter 13 : Deployment, Sideloading a UWA - How easy/difficult is it, really?

How to Upgrade Extended GridView from WinRT to Universal Windows Platform (UWP)

8 Oct 2015 by Irina Pykhova

This article describes the implementation of an extended GridView control for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (9 of N)

4 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 9 Refactor (MVC thinking), More OOP, Designing Objects, SoC continuing work on DailyJournal app.

UWP Alien Sokoban - Part 1

13 Oct 2016 by Daniel Vaughan

A fun UWP implementation of the game Sokoban, demonstrating some new features of XAML and C# 6.0. Part 1

Data Storage with UWP

29 Jun 2016 by Joel Ivory Johnson

The storage APIs available to UWP applications are a little different than those in other .Net environments. This article will introduce you to the storage concepts specific to UWP with examples of how to use many of them.

Convert Desktop Applications to Universal Windows Platform Apps - Project Centennial

14 Jun 2016 by koolprasad2003

How to convert our existing lassic Windows/WPF/Win32 desktop apps to UWA? Project Centennial.

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (14 of N)

22 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForms) Chapter 14: Add ability to delete an entry with a pop up confirmation dialog, add AccessKeys (keyboard shortcuts) and fix some bugs in our DailyJournal app.

Advanced View States for Windows 10 apps

15 Apr 2015 by Juan Pablo G.C.

StateTriggers with multiple properties and initialization, setters for attached properties, deep property path, set values to null,custom attached properties, visual state group as resource and trigger inside datatemplates workaround

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (15 of 15)

29 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForms) Chapter 15: Final chapter delves into various XAML Windows Controls showing examples and dealing with simple layouts.

UWP MediaPlayerAdapter

27 Jan 2018 by Matej Pavlů

MVVM friendly ways of connecting MediaPlayer to your ViewModel

Programming Windows 10: UWP Focus (2 of N)

21 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Using C# for Desktop Development: Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) -- Chapter 2

Programming Windows 10: UWP Focus (1 of N)

20 Nov 2017 by raddevus

Using C# for Desktop Development: Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) --Intro & Chapter 1

A Spritesheet Library and Editor for Win2D

7 Feb 2021 by g96b10

Win2D provides a neat API interface, but how do you render complex sprites for your game? I provide a library and editor to make this a streamlined process.

Implementing Windows 10 GridView for UWP Apps

7 Mar 2016 by TrevyBurgess

Implementing Windows 10 GridView for UWP Apps

Programming Windows 10 Desktop: UWP Focus (8 of N)

1 Dec 2017 by raddevus

Get Started in UWP (moving away from WinForm) Chapter 8 Applied OOP, Designing Objects, SoC and going deeper into designing the DailyJournal app.

Send Encrypt Data PC to Raspberry Pi 2

3 Apr 2016 by Rafael Lillo

Send encrypt string and send/receive as bytes between Raspberry Pi 2 with Windows 10 IoT and PC

UWP Binding vs. XBind

12 Dec 2017 by Uriel Jacobson

Xaml Binding vs. XBind

UWP Storage Wrapper

25 Dec 2018 by Shao Voon Wong

UWP Storage Wrapper

Use icons in your application

31 Jul 2016 by Hein Pauwelyn

How you could use icons in your application there are 2 possible ways: images and icon font (Font Awesome).

Strongly Typed Dependency Property Registration in WPF and UWP

5 Aug 2018 by Ajcek84

Strongly typed dependency property registration implemented for WPF and UWP

Numeric TextBox for Universal Windows App (UWP)

21 Nov 2016 by Piyush Manharlal

Numbers only textbox for Universal Windows App with options to allow negative numbers and set custom numeric pattern.

Windows-Phone-8

Universal Windows App Character Matching Game

30 Nov 2016 by syed shanu

In this article let's see how to create a simple Character matching game using Windows Universal App. Create our own game and have fun with Windows Phone using Universal App development.

CoreObjects/GoliahCore17: *.* for plain C

3 Jan 2019 by Sauro Abbondanzieri

UWP, COM, C++/WinRT, OOP in plain C. What else?

Send Push Notifications in Windows Universal App Using WNS

28 Mar 2016 by Sumit Samediya

In this article, we will learn how to send Push notifications in Windows Universal app using WNS