Bart Lannoeye - Blog
Adding NuGet packages to a Portable Class Library
This weekend I planned to set up a Portable Class Library (PCL) with shared code between our Windows 8 and Windows Phone projects. Since async isn’t supported on Windows Phone 7 by default, the … more
Office 2013 Preview change temperature to Celcius
A new adition to Office 2013 (Preview) is showing the weather of a choosen city in the calendar view. Today it's foggy with a maximum temperature of 76° Fahrenheit.
Even though I'm planning a … more
VS 2012 running tests after each build
A nice feature of Visual Studio 2012 (Premium or Ultimate) is the possibility to automatically run unit tests after each build. Open the Test Explorer Window (Under Test > Windows) and enable the … more
Consuming JSON data in WinRT
Following the session that Glenn (twitter) and I presented at Community Day 2012 as members of the Belgian Windows Phone User Group, we’re writing a couple of posts explaining the topics and … more
XAML binding resources from a separate assembly
Following the session that Glenn (twitter) and I presented at Community Day 2012 as members of the Belgian Windows Phone User Group, we’re writing a couple of posts explaining the topics and … more
Our session at #ComDayBe
Yesterday Glenn (twitter) and I presented a session on “Building the Windows 8 Community App” at Community Day 2012 as members of the Belgian Windows Phone User Group.
During the session … more
Microsoft announced a new Surface in the form of a tablet
As some of you might know, Microsoft had an event planned for a secret announcement today, a bit similar to Apple's product launches (with the difference that they could prevent any leaks).
During … more
We'll be speaking at the Belgian Community Day 2012
This morning the full calendar for the Belgian Community Day 2012 has been released. It will take place on June 21st 2012 in Mechelen and is an event organized by 17 Belgian user groups!
Together … more
First Belgian Windows Phone User Group session
Yesterday we kicked off the Belgian Windows Phone User Group (WiPhug) with a first event called 'Building a Windows Phone application from Z to A'. We started with a short introduction of the team … more
Combining ResourceDictionary with MVVM Light or localization files
I have several Windows Phone 7 apps up and running with both MVVM Light and localized resources without a problem. When I decided to take it a step further and try to add my custom ResourceDictionary … more