The Azure Portal allows you to restart a specific instance in your App Service, but how do you know which one is which? Read on for a helpful tip!
Ratings and reviews are important features to offer on an ecommerce website, giving customers confidence to make a purchase. Adding such a feature to Sitecore is simple thanks to Yotpo, a leading provider of reviews, ratings, and many more related commerce features. With a free Yotpo account and bit of code you can be up […]
As a developer you’re probably familiar with the phrase “It was working before and I didn’t change anything!” That hit me today as I attempted to pull an update from a Github repo using Sourcetree. I was prompted for Github credentials, which were repeatedly rejected. After verifying that the credentials were valid (and that I […]
While working on the mobile apps for McAllen Next (my new side project, stay tuned for more soon!), I discovered a very strange issue when running the app on Android; I kept getting repeated errors like this: Binding: ‘IsLoading’ property not found on ‘RegionModel’, target property: ‘Xamarin.Forms.Label’ and as such, the UI would not bind […]
Sometimes it’s the little things you forget the easiest and most often that throw you for a loop. Today I was attempting to show a value in an ASP.NET MVC View which is stored as type long, representing a monetary amount in cents. I formatted it as currency: @string.Format(“{0:c}”, Model.Subtotal / 100) But when I […]
We’ve seen how the Windows 10 AdaptiveTrigger can help you create a dynamic responsive UI based on the height or width of the device or screen. However, this trigger is limited to a specific value for each dimension, and offers no way to respond to changes in the relationship between them, such as to determine […]
In the previous post we looked at the basics of UI automation in Windows 10 apps using Blend to declare the XAML for Visual States. However, while last time we used event handlers in the code-behind of a page to trigger different states, this time we’ll see how to use the new AdaptiveTriggers in Windows […]
The VisualStateManager in Windows 10 apps defines, manages, and transitions between different states of controls on a page. Today we’ll see how to use Blend to create different app states and transition between them. Read more at the Falafel Software Blog: Windows 10 Development: UI Automation with Blend and VisualStateManager
This post describes the need for and implementation of a UniformGrid layout control that, when used with a ListView, allows the repeated elements to appropriately stretch to a consistent size to achieve a grid-like layout. Read more at the Falafel Software Blog: Windows 10 Development: Creating a UniformGrid Container
Another new control in the Windows 10 Developer toolbox is the RelativePanel, a layout container which enables flexible positioning between the elements it contains. Today we’ll take a closer look at this control and how we used it to build the UI of the Falafel2Go app for Windows 10. Read more at the Falafel Software […]