It's been a long time since last post ...but now it's time to get back to more frequent and regular blogging. Today I'm going to say a couple words about files querying in UWP.
What's wrong with GetFilesAsync()?
In last post ab...
Posted on May 2nd, 2016
Quite important peace of SoSmartTv project is reading and playing video files. Let's see how to handle basic input/output operations in Universal applications.
Basic IO handlers
In UWP all important IO related classes exist in Windows.Storag...
Posted on April 9th, 2016
Every well written code cannot exist without unit tests (of course you can stay on stand point that there is no better place to test your code than production environment, but I'm not trying to convince you ;)). In classic world of Windows de...
Posted on March 31st, 2016
In last post i presented how to obtain C# object from json format using Newtonsoft.Json library in UWP. In this post let's focus on how to modify output class for our needs. Before we start, i present below, the trimmed version of json return...
Posted on March 28th, 2016
In last post I presented TMDb that provides free movie data API. Let's see what has to be done to grab a json from API and digest it in UWP
How to get data from TMDb Api?
To perform any request on production API you have to pass unique api_ke...
Posted on March 21st, 2016
When you browse your home video library you would like to see something more (like on the picture below) than just a plain list of movies titles. It's good to see the poster, plot, credits, ratings exactly those details that have on IMDB, Rot...
Posted on March 19th, 2016
phew... that was very long and unproductive week ;) But it's time to pick up next topic.
Lets see how does the navigation present in Prism 6 for UWP, that is still quite fresh - first release of version 6.0.0 has been made in October 2015. B...
Posted on March 12th, 2016
Lets start work on the project from fundamental part - video player written with C#/Xaml in Universal Windows Platform (UWP) that takes advantage of .Net Core Framework.
UWP Xaml has couple significant differences compared to the worn out WPF imp...
Posted on March 5th, 2016
"Daj się poznać 2016" Competition began at the 1st of March so at the beginning couple of words what is it all about.
Daj się poznać 2016 (dajsiepoznac.pl)
Competition takes place from March to end of May. Rules are very simple:You need to start ...
Posted on March 2nd, 2016
Welcome to my very first blogpost folks! This blog is for the money, for the show and for the fame. Kidding. It is inspired by dajsiepoznac.pl and it is about getting dev-things done (my first pet project in the history that will drive me to the w...
Posted on February 28th, 2016