Tag: HP Elite X3

Tech in the 603, The Granite State Hacker

UWP Community Toolkit in the Wild

Jim Wilcox (The Granite State Hacker)

On August 17th, I reviewed use of the UWP Community Toolkit in practical application, used in several privately published apps. These apps were commissioned by Hewlett Packard to illustrate commercial uses of the HP Elite X3 Windows 10 Mobile phone. We checked out the code behind these apps with permission from HP.

The apps themselves focus on three core verticals:
1) Public Safety – apps to support officers in the field
2) Field Service – supporting a cable field service technician
3) Home Health – supporting a visiting care provider.

All show off Windows 10 UWP as a versatile platform, capable of easily adapting to phone, tablet, or desktop, as well as the HP Elite X3’s additional ability to support various hardware expansion jackets and docking options.

The UWP Community Toolkit is an open source project designed to make Windows 10 the easiest platform to build great apps for. More information can be found here:

http://www.uwpcommunitytoolkit.com/

The official UWP CTK demo app is here:
http://aka.ms/uwptoolkitapp

The presentation itself was all demos, digging in on the CTK toolkit sample app, looking at it in a locally cloned git repo, and showing how we used the same controls in the X3 demo apps.

The UWP CTK is a great set of tools to jumpstart Windows 10 Dev with.  

Our next meeting on September 21st, (2017) we’ll take a look at another great “Hit the ground running” UWP resource, the App Samples.

Tech in the 603, The Granite State Hacker

Prism and Unity, an MVVM and DI Knockout Combo

Jim Wilcox (The Granite State Hacker)

I recently had the opportunity to do UWP work for Hewlett Packard.  It was a really cool experience, building UWP apps for the HP Elite X3 Windows 10 based phone.

I’d also just rolled off a project prior-to that used Unity under the hood for Dependency Injection, so Unity felt like a natural extension. Prism as an MVVM presentation framework on UWP also felt like a natural extension of the MVVM framework we’d build on WPF in that same previous project.

Here’s the slides from the June 22nd, 2017 presentation to the WPDevNH group in Salem, NH. [office src=”https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=90A564D76FC99F8F&resid=90A564D76FC99F8F%211278476&authkey=AI5mw9sxEY9MfHI&em=2″ width=”402″ height=”327″]