In The Hand Ltd

Windows

  • Xamarin Forms Maps Windows Renderers

    It’s possible that with last week’s announcement Windows may no longer be the Cinderella alongside iOS and Android in the Xamarin Forms world. For the moment there are gaps to be filled and one of these is in Maps support.… Continue reading

  • UWP and XAML CustomResource Markup

    UWP doesn’t support writing custom markup extensions however there is one built in markup extension which is extensible. The CustomResource extension allows you to write XAML such as:- <TextBlock Text=”{CustomResource PortableStringResource1}”/> In this case PortableStringResource1 is a unique key to… Continue reading

  • Xamarin Forms Windows Colours

    When you work with custom renderers on Xamarin Forms (and it’s very difficult not to!) you often have to convert from Xamarin Forms types to their native platform equivalent. In the iOS and Android implementations Xamarin include some extension methods… Continue reading

  • WebAuthenticationBroker Hints

    Anyone who has tried to use the WebAuthenticationBroker beyond the simplest of scenarios has probably run into problems and sometimes all you want is a good descriptive error message. Getting things setup just right often takes a certain amount of… Continue reading

  • InTheHand.UI v9.0

    I’ve updated InTheHand on NuGet and added the accompanying library containing UI functionality (InTheHand.UI). The main shared piece of functionality here is the MessageDialog (ala Windows.UI.Popups) and this works across all the Windows platforms (Including Windows Phone Silverlight) and iOS… Continue reading

  • Build Charming Apps v9.0 Preview

    With the impending release of Windows 10 I set about updating the Charming Apps libraries to support UWP targets and it soon became painfully clear that things had got too complicated. There was a separate dll for each small area… Continue reading

  • Xamarin Forms Password Entry on Windows Runtime

    Xamarin Forms doesn’t have a specific PasswordBox control – instead you use the Entry (Think TextBox) and set IsPassword to true. Normally this works as expected and provides a masked entry box. However there is a known issue on Windows… Continue reading

  • ShowEditNewAppointmentAsync Weirdness

    The Windows.ApplicationModel.Appointments namespace in Windows 8.1 (and Windows Phone 8.1) provides access to the user’s calendar. Prior to Windows 10 there were big differences in the APIs as Phone had the existing capability to extend the calendar with app-specific calendars.… Continue reading

  • 32feet and Windows Apps

    Some time ago I created a subset of 32feet.NET to extend the Bluetooth functionality in Windows Phone 8.0. This was for the Silverlight app model and the only API at the time was based around the Proximity APIs. When Windows… Continue reading

  • Determine if running on Windows Phone from a UAP application

    There is new metadata query support in Windows 10 to allow your code to react at runtime based on which APIs are available. For example if running on a phone device you may want to start a call, and offer… Continue reading