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Memory leak in BitmapEncoder.GetPropertiesAsync and how to deal with it
Accessing photo metadata with the Windows Runtime (WinRT) is a fairly simple matter. StorageFile contains functions for accessing various types of properties – photo-related ones included. Some...
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Beware of FirstOrDefault() when using sqlite-net
Overall, using sqlite under Windows 8 has been a neat experience. Stuff seems to work, which is nice. There are a couple of things that were a surprise to me though – the last of them being that...
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Different approach for animation in XAML using .NET 4.5 new async...
This post discusses a small set of classes we use to do dynamic animation in XAML apps – animation where the developer, at design time, might not know a lot about what needs to be animated and when....
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Awaitable ManagedAnimation class for WinRT (Part 2)
In the first part of this post series, I discussed the reasoning behind potentially wanting to have a second way of doing animation in XAML. In this post, I will discuss the basic infrastructure for...
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Awaitable Managed Animation classes for WinRT (Part 3)
In the previous two posts, I set up the reasoning and infrastructure for creating a different type of animation infrastructure. In this post, I’ll (finally) show an actual example of how to use this...
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Awaitable Managed Animation classes for WinRT (Part 4)
So far in this post series, I showed how to use code and the new async patterns of WinRT to simplify the animation of elements. As an example, I used opacity, showing how you can code your animation...
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How to await a CancellationToken
Cancellation tokens are a way for asynchronous operations to allow the caller to cancel them. The mechanism is pretty damn robust – the same token can be propagated along multiple nested operations...
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Easy resource acquisition/disposal with yield returns
I love C#’s using keyword for quick resource acquisition/disposal. Together with foreach, it’s one of the first syntactical sugar pieces baked into C# and it’s a boon for keeping code tight, readable...
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How to use CreateStreamedFileAsync
The StorageFile.CreateStreamedFileAsync is a pretty neat mechanism that allows you to take a stream and use it like an IStorageFile. This is useful in a number of scenarios – especially ones where you...
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Five concepts that completely changed how I write code
(Note that the dates in this post are approximate and are when I discovered said concepts – they may have been around for a while by then, but it may have taken me time to learn about them) Every...
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