Setting up Ethernet with UWP

This week, some significant time was spent debugging an issue where a client could not connect to a C#/UWP server.  It turns out that the solution had to do with giving the server accurate capabilities.  Specifically, in the .appxmanifest file, there are three...

Raising events across Windows

Multi-threaded applications appear to be more and more the norm with the latest version of Windows development.  In fact, it’s become a necessity when displaying additional windows with a UWP app.  With this article, I want to capture the resolution to a problem...

Refreshing images in XAML

The Image control used in XAML does not really seem like a big deal.  Place it in your XAML and bind the Source Property to your Data.  Might look something like this: <Image Source={Binding MyPath} /> However, there’s a case I came across that had me...

A reference for UWP theme resources

F12 does not really work in Visual Studio when using it on a XAML file.  That includes ResourceDictionaries.  Came across this article from Microsoft that covers the list of brushes, colors, fonts, etc that they make available for use.