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AUG
Microsoft MVP for Azure
Windows Development UWP, WPF, WinForm, etc
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AUG
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 …
01
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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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
04
FEB
Create QR Code in Windows 10 UWP
A year ago, I wrote an UWP application that can generate QR Code. However, at that time, the QR Code library I used was ZXing.Net, the last update for this package was in 2014. Now, time has changed, the author of ZXing.Net seems not to update the package any more. However, we have to move on, so I found a fantastic new library to generate QR Code in .NET applications: QRCoder To use that package, …
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JAN
Get system font and characters in Windows 10 UWP
There used to be a {x:Static Fonts.SystemFontFamilies} in WPF that can bind to system font list very easy. However, this is gong in UWP! How stupid it is! These days I wrote a character map UWP application, that would use system fonts, so I did some research. In order to get system font in UWP, we must use DirectX. Install these 3 NuGet pacakges into your project: "SharpDX": "3.0.1", " …
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DEC