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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 iOS (and Windows Phone – more on that later) but has since expanded to desktop […]
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 / WinRT APIs:- C:Program Files (x86)Reference AssembliesMicrosoftFramework.NETCorev4.5System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime.dll The second is the metadata for the UWP APIs […]
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 I created version 9 about a year ago I consolidated lots of separate libraries into […]
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 Services contains information about the currently connected device. The second, HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows CE ServicesPartners contains information for […]
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:- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10cc340b-f857-4a14-83f5-25634c3bf043&displaylang=en
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 here:- http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/getthebeta/golive/ *Terms and conditions apply. Your small print may go down as […]
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 PowerPoint on a desktop PC. This inspired me to put some finishing touches to a […]
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 a System.Net.IrDA.dll assembly which has exactly the same classes and methods as is available in […]
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 blog, but since the basic Socket class supports the IrDA address family, it is necessary […]
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 incredibly powerful, and when I built the ControlEx class to enable hosting I tried to […]
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