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Resolving “UIWindow does not contain a definition for Current” issue in Uno Platform

April 14, 2020 Martin Zikmund 1 Comment

One of the common issues I have seen developers have when porting their UWP apps to Uno Platform is the…

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Posted in: Uno Platform Filed under: gotcha, uno platform

How a simple row or column span can make or break your Xamarin.Forms Grid

March 5, 2019 Martin Zikmund Leave a comment

Today I will share a pretty surprising issue with you. It took me a while to debug and hence this…

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Posted in: Xamarin, XAML Filed under: Android, app development, bug, gotcha, Grid, iOS, UWP, Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, XAML

A story about why cautious parentheses never hurt

January 7, 2019 Martin Zikmund Leave a comment

Today I was trying to implement reading of ushort values from a little-endian byte array. The code to retrieve a…

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Posted in: General Filed under: c#, gotcha, operators, parentheses, precedence, shift

The curious case of jumping app bar button labels

July 7, 2017 Martin Zikmund 1 Comment

Most UWP apps can benefit from using the CommandBar control to present easily accessible commands to the user. Unfortunately the…

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Posted in: UWP & WinUI, XAML Filed under: AppBarButton, CommandBar, design, gotcha, inconsistency, label, UWP, XAML

When a single transparent color is simply not enough

April 10, 2017 Martin Zikmund Leave a comment

There are countless times in the life of a Universal Windows Platform app developer when the “Transparent” color comes handy.…

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Posted in: UWP & WinUI, XAML Filed under: animations, app development, coloranimation, colors, gotcha, transparency, UWP, XAML

Úskalí třídy VisualStateManager

February 1, 2017 Martin Zikmund Leave a comment

VisualStateManager je velmi užitečný při sestavování XAML designu. Spolu s AdaptiveTriggery v UWP umožňuje snadno přecházet mezi jednotlivými stavy rozložení tak, aby aplikace…

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Posted in: Development, UWP & WinUI, Visual Studio, XAML Filed under: gotcha, invalid, setter, tip, UWP, visual state, visualstatemanager, XAML

VisualStateManager pitfalls

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VisualStateManager is extremely useful when building XAML layouts. With UWP’s AdaptiveTriggers to switch between states it provides a great way to build design…

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Posted in: Development, UWP & WinUI, Visual Studio, XAML Filed under: adaptivetrigger, gotcha, visual state, visualstatemanager, XAML

WinRT gotcha – “one shot” Timer BackgroundTask does not unregister after the “one shot”

March 23, 2016 Martin Zikmund Leave a comment

First up – sorry Jack Reacher fans, this post is not about the novel 🙂 . In my latest Windows 10 app Event Countdowns I…

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Posted in: Development, UWP & WinUI Filed under: background task, gotcha, timer, winrt
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