Developers often encounter the need to run virtual machines using VirtualBox and Hyper-V-based mobile emulators on the same machine (for example Windows Mobile or Visual Studio Android Emulator). Unfortunately only one of the two can be enabled at once. The easiest solution is to create two boot entries and disable Hyper-V in one of them. CMD
Users love personalization and expect apps to adapt to their choices. For this purpose we can use the accent color. But what if the user changes settings at runtime?
Unicode 8.0 has added five skin tone modifier characters, that are able to change the skin color of some Emojis – so-called Emoji modifier bases. How can you utilize this interesting feature in your apps?
The Builder pattern is very helpful in case you need to encapsulate and simplify creation of a complex object. Together with the fluent interface pattern it can result in a very nice API that can be a part of your library and is immediately clear and usable for other developers. Now what if we invite inheritance to the party?
The Universal Windows Platform CommandBar control has a new feature called dynamic overflow since the Anniversary Update. This automatically adjusts the number of presented app bar buttons so that they fit and puts the additional commands in the secondary (overflow) menu. This addition has however inadvertently caused some headaches for developers who use Content property of the CommandBar to
Although the default Windows 10 font – Segoe UI – is certainly very beautiful, you might sometimes want to give your Universal Windows Platform app a bit of uniqueness and personality using a custom font. You can use almost any .ttf and .otf font file and include it in your application package. .woff and .eot fonts are currently not supported in C#
