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.NET and Azure Developer
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JUL
Windows 10 UWP: Undo / Redo Ink with Surface Dial
The Surface Dial is the first wheel device in a new input device class. I got my hand on one as soon as it came to market in China. I have a UWP App named "Image Portray", as a drawing app that can make use of the Surface Dial. One of it's useful application to undo / redo the ink by turning the Surface Dial. You can download it from Windows Store these days to see the changes. So, let's begin …
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JUL
Windows 10 UWP: Undo / Redo on InkCanvas
The InkCanvas in UWP only got pens by default, it can not perform Undo or Redo. To implement this, we will need to code for ourselves. Official document covered Undo functionalilty, but not redo. Today, I have successfully done it, and I'd like to share with you. First, you need to add two custom buttons on the InkToolbar for Undo / Redo 1. Undo the Ink We need a few APIs. To …
15
JUL
Remote Deploy and Debug UWP Apps
These days I am developing an App that need to be tested on multiple languages environment. I can set my local dev box to different language, and restart or sign out / sign in to Windows again to test different languages. But this is very inconvenient. I want to setup a Windows 10 virtual machine with Chinese language and let Visual Studio 2017 deploy and debug the App right into the VM. Back the …
05
JUN
微软 Build Tour 2017 上海一日游
Build是微软从2011年开始举办的开发者大会。我作为一个使用微软技术的开发者，当然每年都不会错过这样的一场盛宴。然而，Build的主会场永远都是在美国，这让其他国家的信徒们无法接近我大微软。于是，从2015年起，微软会在Build结束之后，到世界各国的主要城市开设免费巡演活动，内容都是Build大会的精选。 图为我当年在家里用电视观看Build 2011 我曾经在2015年参加过微软在上海的Build Tour，留下了非常深刻的好印象。于是今年，我当然不能错过Build 2017 Tour的上海场了。今年的Tour有2天，第一天是Session第二天是编程马拉松，我怕技术被人鄙视，所以只报名了第一天的内容。 今年微软在中国确实更给力了，这次的Tour是紧接着Build 2017午夜啪活动之后的。中国午夜啪的其中几位主持人也来到了Build Tour，都是软狗们熟悉的面孔~ 虽说今 …
03
JUN
Migrate Domain DNS to Azure
It has been a while since Azure DNS went GA on Azure. It's like "dnspod" in China, offers a third party DNS services besides your domain register. The power of Azure has already been witnessed by the entire human race. Now that, it has got DNS services, it would surly be the best in class DNS on the planet. Thus, what we have to do, is to migrate our DNS servers to Azure DNS. So that your website …
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APR
Configure Continuous Delivery for ASP.NET Core Website on Azure
Today I am trying new DevOps tools in VS2017 and Azure, my goal is to automate the process from development to production for an exsiting ASP.NET Core project. I have encountered some issues, and with the help of Microsoft Support, I was able to solve them and share with you guys. First, there are two ways to configure CD for Azure Web Apps. I prefer create a website first, then configure it from …
02
MAR
How to Save InkCavas to Image in Windows 10 UWP
The InkCanvas control in Windows 10 UWP is not like WPF where you can save as image file easily. If you want to save user ink to an image file, there's by far only one way to do it: 1. Install Win2D.UWP via NuGet into your project. PM> Install-Package Win2D.UWP 2. Because we need to access user's picture library, so we need to apply the permission in manifest file. Select "Pictures Library" …
16
FEB
Azure Fire Alarm by Raspberry Pi and Windows 10 IoT Core
防火是日常生活中非常重要的意识，如果你是一只恩爱狗，出门在外，家里被FFF团点了，那真是太惨（hao）了。如果你恰好有Windows 10的设备，比如Lumia，Surface，能及时收到火警是至（mei）关（sha）重（luan）要（yong）的。今天就教大家如何用Microsoft Azure公有云+Windows 10 IoT Core在树莓派上实现一个远程火警系统。 阅读这篇文章，你需要的前置知识： Windows 10，UWP的基本开发能力 MVVM基础知识 ASP.NET MVC的基础知识 树莓派、GPIO及逻辑电路的基本知识（也就是大学里的计算机电路） Azure公有云的使用经验 ……当然，还要有对微软的信仰 一、设计原理 基本想法是，通过火焰传感器的输入信号，触发一个警报，把消息发送到Azure上的Notification Hub，这个服务是专门给 …
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FEB