Showing posts with label Windows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Windows Apps London (formerly Windows Phone User Group) - it was good while it lasted

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TLDR: User groups were great. I miss organising and going to them. Maybe I should revisit my plans about this... I've organized over 100...
Friday, July 25, 2025

How quickly can a Windows application launch?

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Following on from my recent post asking  How much does start-up time matter when choosing a framework?  I've now published some figures ...
Friday, April 11, 2025

Choosing a framework to build a native app on Windows with .NET

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By "Native," I mean not using web technologies, either as a remotely hosted website or bundled into a package that is installed an...
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Never create an IValueConverter again?

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tl;dr: If using WPF or MAUI you can easily create a MarkupExtension to allow the use of static methods with a Binding, instead of using an I...
Wednesday, March 09, 2022

What's wrong with this WinUI code?

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Here's some simple code. There are probably many ways you can see that it could be different, but there's one major potential proble...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Windows Template Studio - reborn!

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It was only a few weeks ago that I publicly announced that I'd given up on Microsoft taking the Windows Template Studio forward and so ...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Forking Windows Template Studio

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Windows Template Studio is a Visual Studio extension that helps developers scaffold Windows applications.  I have a long, complicated relat...
Sunday, July 04, 2021

What should you do with your UWP app?

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Originally, the expectation was that WinUI3  would have support for both "Desktop" and "UWP" app models. The focus was i...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

A cynical take on today's Windows announcement

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A cynical response is all I can manage today. Plus, my cynical view of past events has been appreciated by some and found entertaining to ot...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Feb 25th is UnoPlatform day (in London & Birmingham)

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Are you in London or Birmingham (in the UK)? Want to learn more about the  Uno platform ? You're in luck, as I'm giving introd...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Xamarin joins Microsoft - initial reaction

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Because I know a little about these things and sometimes people like to know what I think, here are my initial thoughts about the announceme...
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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Interpreting the statistics in the AdDuplex monthly report

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Every month AdDuplex, the leading cross promotion network for Windows Phone and Windows Store apps, releases a report with statistics on ...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Slide view / splitview / side draw and a hamburger are not necessarily the same thing

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There has been a lot of discussion about some of the native apps in the Windows 10 technical preview releases using a hidden menu, acces...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

How developers should think about CPM, CPC and CPI with regards to advertising.

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CPM - Cost Per Mille (1000 impressions) CPC - Cost Per Click CPI - Cost Per Install These are the three main ways that in app advertisin...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Create better ads for your apps

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As an app developer you're probably not an expert in advertising (I'm not either), but over the last couple of weeks I've been r...
Monday, February 02, 2015

SO: What is the difference between different ad providers for Windows Store Apps?

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This question was recently asked on StackOverflow . The question relates to the different ad providers available and how they compare. If ...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

What makes a better ad for your app?

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Do you advertise your app? Have you integrated cross promotion of your app with AdDuplex ? How did you come up with the copy you use in you...