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10 Tricks and Tools for Windows 10 UWP Development
After Windows 10's launch. More and more UWP applications are coming as well as more Windows developers. I have been doing UWP development besides my job for more than 2 years. Today, I will share some tips and tricks from my UWP development experience as well as some handy tools, so that you can do your development quicker and easier. 1. Automatically Set Color to Title Bar The default color …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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" …
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