Orpius now supports image retrieval and analysis! Orpius can download images, analyze them, perform activities based on what it sees. Combined with the scheduling capabilities of Orpius, it works even when you’re sleeping, making for one heck of a powerful tool. I’ve also added an exciting feature revealed near the end of this post (hint: it changes how you’ll see things entirely). Btw., in-case you’re reading this as a repost, my name’s Daniel, and my...

I was working with an SQL Server schema and discovered that one of my tables was named with a keyword; SELECT u.*, a.* FROM [Bpm].User u INNER JOIN [Bpm].Account a ON u.Id = a.UserId WHERE u.Username = 'foo@exammple.com' Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 2 Incorrect syntax near the keyword ‘User’. Turns out ‘User’ is a keyword and I needed to enclose it in square brackets: FROM [Bpm].[User] .... It’s probably best just to...

Introduction Adding Options Sample Overview Exploring the .NET Standard Library Rendering Options in UWP Conclusion Introduction Just about every app needs a settings screen. A lot of developers choose to simply build-out static UI; hard-wiring buttons and text fields to a setting backing store. If one does this, however, eventually, as the number of settings grows, technical debt increases; making refactoring your settings screen into categories, or changing how the settings are stored or displayed,...

Introduction Have you ever created a view-model for your app that contains an ICommand that needs to perform some asynchronous activity? Such as calling a web API or saving data to a file? If you have, you’ll know that the synchronous ICommand interface doesn’t lend itself easily to asynchronous operations. You end up having to build a mini-state-machine to disable and re-enable the command target when the command completes. Wouldn’t it be nice if commands...

Introduction Creating a Custom Dialog Service Leveraging the UWP Community Toolkit Conclusion Introduction Codon FX is a cross-platform framework for building maintainable applications. I use it for all of my .NET based applications. Codon is built on .NET Standard and uses platform specific assemblies to support various platforms including UWP. Codon has no references to third-party libraries, keeping it light-weight and free from version conflicts. There is, however, nothing preventing you from enriching Codon with...