Windows Store app development setup

UWP apps have a bunch of extra setup options that typical WPF does not have.  This article either explains or points to resources that could help.  Most, if not all, of the focus will be on the package.appxmanifest file that is generated with defaults upon creating a...

Referencing UWP resources

At some point, you’ll come across a use-case that requires you to display an embedded image in your UWP app.  If you’re like me, you’ll remember that there always seems to be something tricky about the way the resource path is referenced.  Of course,...

Handling todo lists

I deal with a number of todo lists.  When coding, I place sentinels throughout the source that typically look something like this: //DAN-NOTE: do x, y, and z //DAN-CONTINUE: when picking up on this, consider these //DAN-DEBUG: get rid of this once done fixing blah...