https://matthijs.hoekstraonline.net/tags/uwp/ Recent content in UWP on Matthijs's Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Matthijs Hoekstra Wed, 09 Nov 2016 22:13:54 +0000 https://matthijs.hoekstraonline.net/2016/11/09/how-to-set-configuration-in-your-universal-windows-application-through-mdm/ Wed, 09 Nov 2016 22:13:54 +0000 https://matthijs.hoekstraonline.net/2016/11/09/how-to-set-configuration-in-your-universal-windows-application-through-mdm/ One thing I hear over and over again when talking to (enterprise) developers is that they struggle with configuration management for UWP applications. In the past they just edited a app.config (or web.config) file on the machines to point an app to a test, acceptance or production environment. In UWP we have a app.config file as well but it’s hidden away in some obscure directory protected by some more restricted ACL. https://matthijs.hoekstraonline.net/2016/09/27/auto-updater-for-my-side-loaded-uwp-apps/ Tue, 27 Sep 2016 23:57:42 +0000 https://matthijs.hoekstraonline.net/2016/09/27/auto-updater-for-my-side-loaded-uwp-apps/ As I described before, i have a few tasks to solve for my home automation project. One of the things I wanted to do is to be able to update my application on the different devices easily. I could publish my home automation app to the store, but it’s hard to provide a test environment for the store testers and it takes a while when the app gets certified before i can roll it out to all my devices. https://matthijs.hoekstraonline.net/2016/02/14/screensaver-for-my-app/ Sun, 14 Feb 2016 23:20:01 +0000 https://matthijs.hoekstraonline.net/2016/02/14/screensaver-for-my-app/ One of the things my Home Automation app needs to do is run forever. But I don’t want the screen to burn in either. I can allow the phone to lock the screen but at that time my app isn’t running. I could run some background tasks but there is no way to wake up the app and dismiss the lock screen automatically. Therefore I want an app which runs all the time but has some kind of build in screensaver.