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UWP Tips & Tricks #5 – Detect DeviceFamily in Windows App

December 8, 2015 1 comment

Since the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps run on all the devices powered by Window 10 , you might sometimes want to target a specific device family(eg : mobile or desktop) for certain features....

Add Newline or line break in the Text attribute of TextBlock in Xaml

April 27, 2015 1 comment

If you want to add the line break or newline within the string attribute of the TextBlock‘s Text property , you can use the hexidecimal encoded value 
 which represents the line feed. ...

Escape the Curly Braces in XAML

November 23, 2014 no comments

If you want to set the value of a property to a string that begins with the open curly brace in XAML , you may want to escape it in order to avoid it being treated as markup extension. How to escape...

How to Add Indian Currency Symbol to TextBlock in a Windows Phone 8 Ap...

August 5, 2014 no comments

If you want to display the currency symbols in your Windows Phone 8 App , you can use the Unicode Character Codes. For example , if you need to display Indian Rupee , you can use the code &#x20b9...

Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #7 – Thread.Sl...

June 17, 2014 1 comment

In the earlier version of Windows Phone , you had the option of using Thread.Sleep which can be used to make a function to wait for specific time . It suspends the current thread for the specified t...

Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows Runtime Apps How to #4 – How to Hi...

May 23, 2014 4 comments

In Windows Phone 8.0 , the developer could use the SystemTray.IsVisible property to hide or show the System Tray / Status bar . When the developers target the Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 , they cou...

Windows Phone 8.1 and XAML Apps How to #1 – Download and Install...

April 29, 2014 no comments

Microsoft had announced the Windows Phone 8.1 as well as the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 Release Candidate during the Microsoft Build 2014 Conference. The Windows Phone 8.1 Developer tools has the ne...

Different Transforms in XAML and Windows Phone

February 23, 2014 1 comment

This blog post will introduce and demonstrate the different transforms in XAML that can be used in a Windows Phone page. There are 5 different types of transforms that can be applied for an XAML elem...

Oxygene and WP8 – Templates in XAML

December 9, 2013 no comments

There are 2 different types of templates which the developers can use to customize the controls . These include. ControlTemplate DataTemplate ControlTemplate The ControlTemplate can be used to custom...