Picasso is a great open-source SDK which let you display images efficiently on Android. I wanted to use it in my MvvmCross app because it really helps you having great display performances especially on list.…
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Reminder : Sqlite is already inside #Windows 10 – no need to include it in your #UWP apps !
I have read, as a maybe a lot of you, that Sqlite is now shipped with Windows 10 : it’s true. Let’s see how you can target it.
.NET : execute some non-thread-safe code without issue in parallel with AppDomains
Today I faced a specific need withing a WPF application: I have a well-tested and already in production code which works well for a given user and I need to create an application to execute…
[WPDev] CustomMessageBox + OnNavigatedTo + Navigate = Exception !
The Windows Phone Toolkit is really useful. Yesterday, while I was updating my ConsoTracker app, I met a strange bug using the CustomMessageBox : it was raising a nullReference exception. Let’s see what was the…
The Techdays’ code is here !
Hi everyone, The techdays are over and it was a very good year ! I was a speaker in two sessions, one with Thomas on WPF 4.5 and one another with Luc on WPF Memory…
WPF 4.5 – Part 13 : binding to types that Implement ICustomTypeProvider
This is the part number 13 of the serie on the WPF 4.5 new features. ICustomTypeProvider is an interface already known in the Silverlight 5 world but it is shipped with full support in WPF…
How to bind an ItemsControl to an Enum with localized descriptions
Today, it’s a blog on a tip to use the values of an enum as the source of an ItemsControl (ListBox, ComboBox, ListView, etc.) and display them nicely using attributes. We’ll provide a localized description…
Coded UI Tests : the recorder encountered a wrong control while recording the last action.
One more quick post on Coded UI tests recording issue. Today, the coded UI test builder tool said to me “The recorder encountered a wrong control while recording the last action.” ! After some search…
Coded UI tests : my TextBlock is not found, how to find it ?
In the previous post, we have seen that setting the AutomationId can greatly help us when we want to perform some UI Tests. Todyay, I struggled with a problem which seems common after some digging…
Coded UI tests : AutomationId or how to find the chose one (control) !
In my previous post on Coded UI tests, we have seen how to make a control discoverable by a Microsoft UI Automation client including the Coded UI tests builder. This is a first step and…