In The Hand Ltd

XAML

  • Styling WinUI Controls and Staying Fluent

    In my current Thy Voice app for Windows 11, I wanted to keep the regular Fluent style for controls so that the UI was instantly familiar but I needed to make some changes to differentiate the stored phrases. These are… Continue reading

    Styling WinUI Controls and Staying Fluent

  • 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

  • Windows Embedded Compact 2013 & Visual Studio 2013

    The latest update to Windows Embedded Compact 2013 was a bit of a surprise as besides the usual cumulative bug fixes and tweaks it adds development support with Visual Studio 2015. Since the days of Windows Mobile 6 and even… Continue reading

  • Moving from WinForms to XAML Runtime on Windows Embedded Compact

    I recently found an old set of slides I created for TechEd NZ a few years ago which collected together useful information for moving from Windows Mobile to Windows Phone. It struck me that some of this would also be… Continue reading

  • WriteableBitmapEx for Windows Embedded Compact 7

    I have ported René Schulte‘s excellent WriteableBitmapEx project to run on Windows Embedded Compact 7. The original library supports drawing across various XAML user interfaces – Silverlight, Windows Phone, WPF and Windows 8 Apps. Because XAML In The Hand exposes… Continue reading