Maintainability By Refusing null Our goal as software developers is to produce code that can be easily maintained. This is frequently a challenge; as writing good code is hard. µObjects is a way of Object Oriented Programming that I've found gives us this. There are a number of…
In the last post we got the Title of the UWP app passing up the app. But it's not part of the app. There's no trigger for the app to LOAD the data. We have the mechanism; but where from? Today we'll get the…
Using Visual Studio CodedUI Automated Tests for logging in via Windows Hello / Micrcosoft Passport! We're implementing the ability to use Windows Hello, or Microsoft Passport, to log into our app. The exact mechanism of how we handle credentials isn't important here. As the title suggests, this…
Since we're now able to TDD up the entire app; showing our wrapped control. Sounds like time to display a story title. I've re-worked the naming; not behavior; of the VBM pattern [https://quinngil.com/2017/01/08/pattern-view-bridge-mediator-2/]. It's now the [Hotel UI…
I know I'll have disagreement on this; and I'm happy about that. One of the mechanisms I use for... what I can only call "Dependency Injection" or "Inversion of Control"... is to have multiple constructors. In the ideal I just have a…
I'm back to the UWP app after not too long of a break; and we really just need to get some things happening. I guess I'm more working to plan out the flow of the project. This is now fairly similar to a project for work…
I'm not sure where this post is going to go. I'm checking my pre-planned posts and ... there's none for the Android HackerNews Reader. This is kinda sad as I was enjoying being able to just sit down and start up on the project. Now…
When we last left our brave little app... And if it's trying to be on the windows platform; you know it's indeed brave - It had just configured it's network layer and is looking to expose it to the wider world! I spent a…