If your Windows 10 Search Bar is broken you're encountering an issue that is spreading to many Windows 10 users at the time of this writing. This is NOT an official statement (I'm not responsible for any side effects caused by this) about how to fix but running this script inside a PowerShell session with … Continue reading How to fix Windows 10 Broken Search Bar
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Clean your Windows 10 like a pro
The space on your hard drive is running low and you don't know what to do. What to clean? Is there an app that can clean my PC? The vast majority of Windows users rely on third party apps like CCleaner to do this job. Make yourself a favor: don't do this. Windows has a … Continue reading Clean your Windows 10 like a pro
How to setup a Private Agent in Visual Studio Team Services
The installation of a private agent for VSTS is quick and simple. Let's try it out!
Prism UWP for beginners: events
In this post we explore another major component of Prism: the EventAggregator. The Prism library provides an event mechanism to communicate between loosely coupled components in the application. Using .NET Framework events is the most straightforward approach for communication between components if loose coupling is not a requirement. Events in the .NET Framework implement the … Continue reading Prism UWP for beginners: events
Prism UWP for beginners: lifecycle
In this post we’ll explore the management of the lifecycle of a UWP app inside the OS.
Prism UWP for beginners: binding and commands
Let's practice with Prism for UWP binding and commands.
Prism UWP for beginners: setup
I want to learn Prism because it may be helpful in some future projects of my company. To better understand how it works I need a target. I'd like to create a simple UWP app that displays my Twitter timeline and the local weather based on the GPS. Prism will help me to adopt the MVVM architeture and IoC/DI concepts.
How to get started with Prism in 3 easy steps
In this post we explore the basics of Prism to create a mantainable and scalable WPF application. How to get started Download the nuget Prims.Xyz package for your Platform: in this example for WPF (Prims.WPF and Prism.Unity) with Visual Studio; Create a bootstrapper; Edit App.xaml and App.xaml.cs files; (Bonus point) Reorganize our project. With this … Continue reading How to get started with Prism in 3 easy steps
Integrate Azure Cognitive Services in UWP app
Azure Cognitive Services are an amazing tool than enables developers to augment users' experience using the power of machine-based intelligence. The API set is powerful and provides lots of features that are organized in categories: vision, speech, language, knowledge, search, and labs. In this post we learn how to leverage the Emotion API to get … Continue reading Integrate Azure Cognitive Services in UWP app
Integrating Twitter with Universal Windows Platform
Twitter is my favorite social network. It is useful both for work and for fun: I read twitter often and post some tweets, too. In this post we’re going to see how to read information from Twitter about the logged user and how to interact with the Twitter API with a Universal Windows App (UWP). … Continue reading Integrating Twitter with Universal Windows Platform
