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Crop, Blend (Watermark) Photos on Windows Phone 8.1 with the Lumia Imaging SDK
I recently needed the ability to combine two images on Windows Phone 8.1 (WinRT not Silverlight) so that one overlays the other, like a watermark. Because the watermark image was a fixed size and...
View ArticleVanilla VS Snippet for a Property with a Data Annotation
This post is inspired by my colleague Keith Burnell’s post on creating a ReSharper Template for View Model Properties with Annotations. His post really highlights how simple ReSharper makes it for you...
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Hello, Windows 10: Getting Started Developing
This is post 1 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” Today is a big day in the history of Microsoft; the long-awaited Windows 10 release is finally here, bringing a whole new level of...
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Bluetooth Rfcomm Communication with a Windows IoT Core Device
Being a gadget guy, I can’t express enough the excitement I have for the Windows 10 IoT Core. The fact that I can now run most any UWA on a Raspberry Pi 2 is cool. I looked at the many ways you could...
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Windows IoT Core Oscilloscope
In my continuing quest to see what the Windows IoT Core is capable of and my desire to push my gadgets to their limits, I came up with an interesting oscilloscope project using a Windows IoT Core-based...
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Windows IoT Core Remote Wifi Scanner
Windows IoT Core has a nice web-based device management interface. This app can configure many aspects of the device, such as connecting the device to a WiFi network. Because the web-based device...
View ArticleIndex Initializers – Day 1 – VS 2015 Series
This is post 1 of 31 in the series “31 Days of VS2015 Tricks and Treats” Syntactical Sugar Many of the new features in C# 6 come under the heading of Syntactical Sugar. Syntactical sugar refers to a...
View ArticleNull-Conditional Operators – Day 2 – Visual Studio 2015
This is post 2 of 31 in the series “31 Days of VS2015 Tricks and Treats” One of my favorite new features of C# 6 is the null-conditional operator. While it is certainly possible to go without this...
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Particle Photon Oscilloscope
I previously turned my Windows IoT Core-based Raspberry Pi 2 into an oscilloscope, but I didn’t stop there. The next gadget in my target is the Particle Photon. This is an amazing little device....
View Articlenameof – Day 3 – VS 2015 Series
This is post 3 of 31 in the series “31 Days of VS2015 Tricks and Treats” When magic isn’t Discernng why certain code is considered good and other code -well- isn’t is often readily apparent by examing...
View ArticleUsing Static Directive – Day 9 – VS 2015 Series
This is post 9 of 31 in the series “31 Days of VS2015 Tricks and Treats” Using Static Directive? Admittedly, the title of this article reads somewhat awkwardly. For the sake of improving clarity it...
View ArticleString Interpolation – Day 10 – Visual Studio 2015
This is post 10 of 31 in the series “31 Days of VS2015 Tricks and Treats” Even in the early days of C# there were ways to construct strings that use values from variables using either concatenation or...
View ArticleExpression Bodied Methods and Properties – Day 11 – VS 2015 Series
This is post 11 of 31 in the series “31 Days of VS2015 Tricks and Treats” More Syntactical Sugar Syntactical Sugar comes in a wide range of flavors, nonetheless their goal is to decrease the level of...
View ArticleAwait in Catch and Finally blocks – Day 13 – VS2015 Series
This is post 13 of 31 in the series “31 Days of VS2015 Tricks and Treats” Await in Catch and Finally blocks Of all the language additions in C# 6 the added ability to use await in catch and finally...
View ArticleAzure Mobile Apps: Writing a Fast Custom DomainManager, Part 1
This is post 6 of 11 in the series “Azure for Developers” My last post took you on a journey with me as I analyzed the Azure Mobile App default base entity class and talked about some of the things I...
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Exploring Multi-Photon and Particle Cloud Functionality with a Useless Machine
There are many ways for Particle Photons to interact with each other. Even more ways for other devices and apps to interact with Photons through the Particle Cloud. To explore these capabilities, I...
View ArticleAzure Mobile Apps: Writing a Fast Custom DomainManager, Part 2
This is post 7 of 11 in the series “Azure for Developers” Picking Up Where We Left Off Last time, I wrote about how to develop a custom DomainManager to plug into an Azure Mobile Apps TableController....
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Controlling an RGB LED on a Photon with a UWA Color Picker
The Particle Photon makes it easy to control the color of an RGB LED. There are a number of color picker controls you can use in Windows apps. I wanted to see how easy it was to hook a Photon RGB LED...
View ArticleAzure Mobile Apps: Writing a Fast Custom DomainManager, Part 3
This is post 8 of 11 in the series “Azure for Developers” Picking Up From Last Time Last time, I finished the overview of the helpers afforded by the MappedEntityDomainManager and how they could be...
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PIR Sensor with a Photon, Particle Cloud, and a UWA
My latest sensor experiment involved the PIR Motion Sensor (HC-SR501) that comes with the Photon Maker Kit. The motion sensor didn’t have the best English documentation; however, there were enough...
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