A simple developer's journey

Hi, Here is a funny post on who is blogging the most on .Net. As you can see, we are not part of the game :) Fair enough, we will be better next time! http://www.trelford.com/blog/post/prolific.aspx

In traditional WP8 apps, when you want to update a visual element but you are not in the UI thread, you have to use the dispatcher like this: Deployment.Current.Dispatcher.BeginInvoke( /* my custom task */); In Xamarin.Forms, you have to use the Device 's object static method: Device.BeginInvokeOnMainThread(() => { // your code on UI thread here... });

Hi, We all know Unity, Autofac, Ninject... ( not all of us, really? ;) ) TypeC is a new one in the big family of IoC container: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/hanuk/archive/2015/03/28/typec-a-simple-net-injection-ioc-container.aspx

Hi, Here is a How-to to get ready for Windows 10 universal apps using Mvvm Light incredible framework! http://blog.galasoft.ch/posts/2015/03/using-mvvmlight-with-windows-10-universal-applications/

A new MemoryStream is coming! This one is optimized and offers better performance than the actual MemoryStream. See http://www.philosophicalgeek.com/2015/02/06/announcing-microsoft-io-recycablememorystream .