Month: August 2015

Holiday Reading : Lanzarote

Something slightly different for this post, I was fortunate enough to spend the past couple of weeks on Holiday in Lanzarote, around doing/seeing some really amazing things (Lava Tunnels, Volcanoes, Fundacion Cesar Manrique pictured above, sitting on the beach, etc.), I managed to catch up on some reading.  I chose to read mostly non-technical Fiction books as I seem to find myself reading technical books throughout the rest of the year.

I took some inspiration from Christos Matskas’ Summer Reading List who had done the hard work and crowd sourced some suggestions and picked up The Rosie Project and The Martian, having already read Ready Player One and Soft Skills.

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Universal App Gotchas : Namespaces must exist in all Platform Projects

In certain circumstances Visual Studio will quite happily suggest to add namespaces into Shared Projects that will then fail to compile.  It’s an obvious issue to resolve, with the bottom line being that the Namespaces must exist in all Platform Projects in order for it to be referenced by the Shared Project.
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Morse Coder Part 7 : Data Binding User Controls

User controls offer a way to abstract common areas of your User Interface in a reusable package, allowing you to simplify your views and push some of the complexity of your UI into more manageable pieces.  This tutorial will focus on Data Binding to Properties on a User Control from a ViewModel.

Outcome

By the end of this post we should have a basic User Control bound against some Commands living in the MainViewModel to manipulate the content of the Input, in our case, we’ll offer a way to input Morse Code (dots/dashes) outside of needing to use a Keyboard in preparation for extending the App to translate both ways from the User Interface.
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DVLUP (MSDN Rewards)

A few years back I signed up on https://dvlup.com.  An incentive site to build on the Windows Phone platform ran by Nokia.  Subsequently (along with the rest of the Nokia Lumia brand), it’s been bought under the Microsoft Banner and is now known as MSDN Rewards and can be found at https://rewards.msdn.microsoft.com.

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