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Titlebars and Themes: A WinUI Adventure
I’m working on a WinUI 3 app at the moment and I’ve been trying to match the in-box titlebar behaviour for Windows 11. Anyone who has experience with Windows will immediately respond “Which One?” as various apps within Windows look… Continue reading
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Bluetooth Classic and Low Energy – Different Approaches
I often get asked about the different ways of using Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth Low Energy with 32feet.NET. This post looks at the two different approaches and a bit of historical context. Separate Libraries The first key point here is… Continue reading
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Phones and Windows 11 – June 2023 Update
Microsoft recently released their update to Phone Link to fully support iPhones on Windows 11. This means that for the best experience of using your iPhone you should switch to using Phone Link on Windows 11. Phone Link supports messaging,… Continue reading
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In The Hand joins Neurodiversity in Business
Neurodiversity in Business (NiB) New initiative to help ensure greater workplace inclusion of the neurodivergent community Neurodiversity in Business (NiB) is an industry forum to support the participation of neurodivergent individuals in the workplace recently launched at the Houses of… Continue reading
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Keeping Focus
Windows 11 introduced the concept of Focus Sessions which allow you to specify a fixed time to work uninterrupted. While active, Windows will not flash taskbar icons and will turn on Do Not Disturb mode to suppress notifications (this particular… Continue reading
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The Next Step for the Occupied App
Today the latest app update went live in the Microsoft Store. This update adds a quick manual override to your busy status which you can trigger from the tray icon. The app continues to evolve to help you manage your… Continue reading
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Book Review: .Net MAUI for C# Developers
Jesse Liberty and Rodrigo Juarez have created this book to guide the reader through all aspects of creating apps with .NET MAUI. It assumes a level of experience with C# and .NET but is not limited to previous Xamarin developers.… Continue reading
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Sense a presence in the workforce
Many organisations revolve around a communication tool like Microsoft Teams. Not only do they form the backbone of meetings in hybrid and remote working, but also one-to-one chats and calls. Microsoft Teams has a presence indicator for each user so… Continue reading
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A Journey Through Azure Maps
This article was originally written in 2018 and there have been a number of additions to the API since then. Azure Maps is a suite of services for working with constantly changing location-based information. These cover everything you’ll need whether… Continue reading
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This Year, Next Year, Sometime…?
One of the books I read when I first got interested in computers was from the Ladybird books How It Works series. The volume covering “The Computer” was published in 1979 and, as you can imagine, features plenty of suitably… Continue reading
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