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  • WPF Activity in Xamarin Forms

    I’ve recently been working on extending an existing product written in Xamarin Forms to Windows desktop and this has meant learning a lot more about the WPF implementation. Originally Xamarin Forms was created for mobile platforms such as Android and… Continue reading

    WPF Activity in Xamarin Forms

  • Using specific versions of UWP from Win32

    From a Win32 .NET library (One that targets desktop apps whether Console, WinForms or WPF) you can add two references and take advantage of (most) UWP APIs. The first is a .NET library which handles interop with the UWP /… Continue reading

  • Introducing Pontoon – A flexible bridge to the Universal Windows Platform

    I first created the “Charming” libraries for Windows Phone in order to add some APIs which were added to Windows 8 but not available on phone. Many of the early ones replicated the “Charms” related functionality (Sharing/Search/Settings) hence the silly name. When… Continue reading

  • Desktop ActiveSync Registry Settings

    In March I showed how to get the version of a connected device from the desktop. This post documents the rest of the registry settings used to store device information. There are two registry locations, the first at HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows CE… Continue reading

  • .NET Framework 3.0 Released

    I’m still not a huge fan of the naming system used – v3.0 is the v2.0 framework with what was previously known as WinFX added – Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Workflow. You can download the redistributable here:-… Continue reading

  • Indigo Reaches Beta 2 And Gets Go-Live License

    Indigo (Yeah I know I’m supposed to call it Windows Communication Foundation), has reached the Beta 2 milestone. With this release you can apply for a Go-Live license to deploy the technology in live environments*   Read all about it… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth Remote Control

    Mike Hall posted a link on his blog to a channel9 interview with Anil Dhawan from the Windows Mobile team discussing Bluetooth programming, which I recommend you check out. Anil gave a demo of a native code application to remote control… Continue reading

  • System.Net.IrDA for the desktop (Part 2)

    Following my previous post, I did some further development to the code to make it fully match the .NETCF assembly (yes, in my haste I’d missed a few properties and cut a couple of corners). So now I have compiled… Continue reading

  • System.Net.IrDA for the desktop

    Following on from a question which cropped up on today’s MVP chat. I did some investigation into IrDA support on the desktop framework. Turns out you can’t use System.Net.IrDA.dll from .NETCF on the desktop as I had read on some… Continue reading

  • Hosting a Native Windows Control – The desktop approach

    Following Neil’s recent post on my control hosting article, I realised that the article had not gone into detail on the differences between the Control class in the full framework and Compact Framework. The Control class in the full .NET framework is… Continue reading