Arthur Rump

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Animating GridViewItems with Windows.UI.Composition (aka the Visual Layer)

If you’ve ever used the beta version of myTube! (and you should), you’re probably familiar with the effect I wanted to create:

Example of animation in myTube Beta: video thumbnails pop out on hovering over them
In myTube Beta, the thumbnail pops out of the item, which creates a lovely experience

I absolutely love this effect, and when I accidentally open the …

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Schoolrooster voor Zermelo

The Windows 10 app for viewing Zermelo school timetables

Schoolrooster voor Zermelo is an app that allows students and teachers to check their timetables on all their Windows 10 devices. The app works with all schools and organizations that use the Zermelo portal technology to manage the timetabling process. The app is built on the Universal Windows Platform with …

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Explore your Akavache cache on UWP

Akavache is an awesome library for almost every .NET desktop and mobile application platform to store both important user data and expiring local cache data. I’ve been using Akavache in a UWP app to cache results from a web service. In the Akavache README, the Akavache Explorer application is …

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How to hide the StatusBar in Landscape on UWP

Windows 10 Mobile has lost a lot of the awesome UI/UX from the good ol’ Windows Phone 7 era, but there’s one thing that they kept around: the enormous amount of space the statusbar takes up in landscape view. I still love the look and feel of the …