Windows Template Studio

Saturday, February 15, 2020

I’m a little late to this party, but there’s an extension for Visual Studio that makes creating really nice UWP apps a snap. This extension is called the Windows Template Studio. The template studio is a wizard interface to create an UWP app with many different choices. Those choices include Project Type, Design Pattern, Pages, Features, Services, and Testing. Each of these has numerous choices making it possible to start just about any app you are looking to create.…more

Dual Screen What About UWP

Monday, February 10, 2020

Dual Screen preview and Microsoft 365 Developer Day is coming up tomorrow morning. I’m in Redmond for this great event and I really can’t wait ot hear what they have to say. Tonight in preparation for the event I read through the documentation found linked to the blog post linked above. It made a lot of sense. There’s the Java tools for Android that make dual screen development easier, but not in my wheel house.…more

Dual Screen or Foldable Screen

Saturday, February 8, 2020

Coming later this year is the next evolution of tablets. Windows 10X promises dual screen… er… single foldable screen… wait, both? But which do I choose? This is going to be tough. On the one hand you have the Surface Neo and on the other hand you have the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold. Ugh! Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold Let’s start with Lenovo first. I had a first generation Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon back in the day.…more

Hugo Page Resources

Friday, February 7, 2020

Hugo is a static site generator that takes markdown and turns it into a static HTML site. That’s how this site is running. I’ve been using it for another of my web sites, but I don’t like how it handles images. I found some code that would put a border around images and it looks nice. I use it on my other blog. But one of the hardest parts was figuring out how to handle page resources in Hugo.…more

Hugo to the Rescue

Friday, February 7, 2020

In January I rebuilt my custom blog engine running on .NET Core 3.1. I pushed it up to a new Linux server in Azure. Everything appeared to be okay. So I left it and hoped I’d have the motivation to write some blog posts for it. Yesterday I wanted to see how to do CompactOverlay in JavaScript. I know I have a blog entry on that. I’ll just go to my website and find it.…more

6502 Computer

Friday, February 7, 2020

Ben Eater has a series of videos building out a 6502 based computer. So far we have videos detailing how to print out “Hello, World!” on it. It doesn’t seem like much right now, but it was a really interesting process. Besides, just look at how cool this looks: There have been 5 videos detailing how to build this up from the processor to the ROM chip and the 65C22 interface chip.…more

Installing .NET Core 3.0 on a Raspberry Pi

Friday, February 8, 2019

I went into this exercise thinking this would be a tough challenge. However, it turns out to be a very simple process. It’s just prepare, download, unpack, configure, and roll with it. Prepare First make sure that your Raspberry Pi is running the latest software updates with this command: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade Once that is done, we need to install libunwind8 sudo apt-get install libunwind8 That’s it for prepare.…more

Build 2018

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Another year and another Build conference. Last year I said I’d go this year given the opportunity, and I was given the opportunity. The original build conference was billed as //build/ Windows. You could bring whatever tools you knew to build great Windows apps. This conference has morphed over the years and is now //build/ Azure. This is disappointing to me. Like last year the first day keynotes were centered around the server and Azure.…more

AppUrlHandlers

Monday, November 6, 2017

The promise of web-to-app linking is that a developer can associate an app with a website. That way when you load the website the app will launch. Really cool! However, the sad truth of the matter is that you have to do a Windows Key + R to Run the website. Normally I, and I assume most people, go to their browser to view websites. There’s simply no point in running the web page.…more

Installing Windows 10 from a Flash Drive

Thursday, July 20, 2017

8 and a half years ago I wrote about Installing Windows from a Flash Drive. These instructions have served very well for all that time. Like most things, however, times change and instructions that used to work need tweaking. I recently got a Microsoft Surface Laptop and it’s a great machine. The first thing I did was to upgrade from Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Pro. Then I installed a Windows Insiders build on it and that’s when things started going bad.…more