WPF

Code Generation from XAML in Visual Studio is Mind-blowing Awesome

The more and IDE or code editor can do for you the better I say. Visual Studio has been crushing it with new refactorings, IntelliSense, and IntelliCode [https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/intellicode/], one of my favorite features ever. One thing that I have always been hoping for as a XAML developer is deeper connectivity between the XAML and the View-Model. We have seen increased IntelliSense in this area, but with the release of Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 [https://devblogs.microsoft.c…

James Montemagno

Distributing a .NET Core 3 WPF and WinForms App with MSIX

I could not be more excited for .NET Core 3 that will soon power all of your WPF and WinForms apps in addition to ASP.NET Core and .NET Core apps themselves! You may be saying... James... WPF... WinForms... why even bother? Well, because you may have to support some older apps and with the power of .NET Core 3 as the runtime instead of the .NET Framework it means that we no longer have to worry about what version of .NET is installed on the users machine. It means we can deploy a WPF/WinForms ap…

James Montemagno

Introducing My Stream Timer: A Countdown Timer for OBS

I have been streaming on Twitch for over 6 months now. I stream both code on my personal Twitch channel [https://twitch.tv/jamesmontemagno] and I also stream games and recordings of Nintendo Dispatch [http://nintendodispatch.com] with my buddy Michael over on the official Dispatch Twitch channel [http://twitch.tv/nintendodispatch]. One thing that always bothered me was having to manually mess around with apps to get a simple countdown timer. They were too complex, had too many options, and had…

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Code Generation from XAML in Visual Studio is Mind-blowing Awesome

Distributing a .NET Core 3 WPF and WinForms App with MSIX

Introducing My Stream Timer: A Countdown Timer for OBS

James Montemagno

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