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Posts from the ‘Windows’ category

  • When recently creating a Linux Docker image using Docker for Windows, I ran into a couple of vague errors. Searching online for the error messages, weren’t any solutions. But luckily some suggestions put me on the right track. In this post I write about the solutions I found.
  • This week I’ll be attending the Microsoft Build 2016 conference in San Francisco. Lots of news to be expected for developers covering the many technologies Microsoft is putting on the market.
  • Recently I got certified by Microsoft as Solutions Developer for the Windows Universal Platform by taking two exams that are currently in beta. Because the exams are in beta there is not much guidance to be found online. I noticed during the exams I was being tested on skills not mentioned on the Microsoft Learning web site. In this post I’ll cover these differences and how I prepared for the exams so it’ll be easier for you to get certified.
  • Not long ago I wrote a blog post about Responsive Pivot Headers in Universal Windows Platform apps. Paul responded to this post asking how to change the background of the selected item, just like the example I posted on top of the post. It's a great question and I'm sorry I didn't cover this part so the pivot looks more like the example image. An omission I want to correct with this blog post.
  • My PC just got upgraded to the latest Windows 10 Insiders build (slow ring, build 10565) and suddenly a couple of VMs were missing from the Hyper-V Manager. I first suspected the security settings on the directories were the problem, but my changes didn't fix anything. After browsing around the internet, I found a couple of fixes that might help you if you have the same problem.
  • For a Universal Windows App I wanted to implement a Pivot. Reading the guidelines for tabs and pivots by Microsoft I got inspired by the examples given. However, no code samples are supplied so there is no indication how to actually create this in your own Xaml app. In this blogpost I will show the different steps to get the basics done and I will supply the source code for you to use.
  • I received a couple of comments on my article about making the pull-down-to-refresh work with a Windows Phone virtualizing list control. The problem was that the functionality stopped working after navigating away from the page containing the ItemsControl. Today I committed the code to GitHub to fix this issue.
  • The other day I was working on a Windows Phone app. I wanted to add a "pull down to refresh" panel to a large list of images. Just like the Facebook and Twitter apps have. As Microsoft does not provide this functionality in their default controls I started searching the web if somebody else has build something like this already. I found a blog post by Jason Ginchereau where he provided this functionality for Windows Phone 7. In my app I use an ItemsControl with a VirtualizingStackPanel to prevent memory issues. After I added the PullDownToRefreshPanel control to my list and started testing it on my phone, I ran into some issues. In this blog post I will describe my contributions to fix these 2 issues and I will supply the source code for you to use.
  • With the launch of Visual Studio 2010 this week a lot of people will start upgrading to the new version. After the installation was complete I noticed the Surface project and item templates were not available. In this post I explain how to get the entries in Visual Studio 2010.
  • Today the Microsoft Virtualization Team announced the availability of the new beta version of the Linux Integration Services for Hyper-V. In this post I will try the new features.
  • The Microsoft Surface is a Windows Vista computer running the Microsoft Surface Shell. This shell is by default localized for US English. It is possible to localize for other locales, but there is no configuration screen to set the desired localization. This post will summarize the different steps to localize the Surface shell.
  • If you want to develop for the Microsoft Surface you need a Surface device, but using the device to develop is not always practical, specially when there are more developers than Surface devices. The solution for this is to install the Surface SDK on you local development machine. This post will address some limitations you have to work around.
  • I was having trouble with the clock in my Linux Hyper-V VMs. The time was constantly drifting forward. Using NTP only slowed the drift a bit down but often NTP gave up after several days.
  • I’m running Linux in Hyper-V VMs since the launch of the Windows Server 2008 RTM. It was quite complex to get performance and support for the network drivers. Recently with the launch of Windows Server 2008 R2 there are also new Linux Integration Components which also work for 2008 RTM. Here is the list of steps to install CentOS with these components.
  • Learn how I solved the problem of the Remote Desktop Client not using stored credentials due to a local policy setting, and simplified my RDP connections.
  • I have a clean install on the latest and greatest: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and MOSS 2007 SP1 with all updates. Everything works fine, except the search crawl gave Access Denied errors on http://mysite and sps3://mysite. This post explains how I fixed the problem.