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🦙 helping folks. Technical Content Creator .NET and GameDev @jetbrains.com, Ex-Microsoft, Michael Hawker.

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JetBrains ReSharper @resharper.jetbrains.com · last wk.

There is so much more to building #dotnet apps than debugging. If you are using #resharper in @vscode.dev, you have access to many great developer productivity enhancements. Learn more below blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2026/...

The Complete Package: Why Debugging Is Only Half the C# Productivity Story - The JetBrains Blog

As .NET developers, we need to iterate on our applications while building, and part of that developer inner loop is the debugging experience. The rise of multi-platform code editors further requires d

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JetBrains Rider @rider.jetbrains.com · 3w ago

The Rider 2026.2 release is here! Explore our What's New page for a complete overview of the key new features. 👇 jb.gg/rd-262-relea...

van800 @van800.bsky.social · 3w ago

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JetBrains GameDev Days 2026 – Call for Speakers - The JetBrains Blog

JetBrains GameDev Day is back! Join us online on September 28, 2026, for a day dedicated to game development, practical engineering, tools, workflows, and the people building games across the world. W...

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XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hey folks, have a life update to share about leaving Microsoft: www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...

It's been an adventure, but after nearly 18 years, I've left Microsoft to start a new chapter in my journey. I've worked with so many amazing people and built some incredible things. It&#...

It's been an adventure, but after nearly 18 years, I've left Microsoft to start a new chapter in my journey. I've worked with so many amazing people and built some incredible things. It's unbelievabl...

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XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🦙📢 #WindowsDev new #WindowsCommunityToolkit preview! v8.3.260402-preview2 has released with #WinAppSDK 1.8 support for just the #WinUI package as a dependency. #dotnet 🎉🎉🎉 github.com/CommunityToo...

Release [Pre-release] v8.3.260402-preview2 · CommunityToolkit/Windows

What's Changed First official build with WindowsAppSDK 1.8 support for the new package structure. The WCT now only depends on Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK.WinUI for WinUI 3 projects instead of the full ...

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XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🦙📢 #WindowsDev a preview of the #WindowsCommunityToolkit has dropped with some new vertical modes for the Segmented and RangeSelector controls. Check the rest of the changes here: github.com/CommunityToo... #WinUI #dotnet

[Pre-release] v8.3.260211-preview1 · CommunityToolkit Windows · Discussion #829

What's Changed Vertical Orientated Components 🚦 Orientation option for Segmented by @Avid29 in #747 [RangeSelector] Add support for vertical orientation by @Illustar0 in #756 Bug Fixes 🐞 Fix…

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XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🦙📢 It's been an amazing celebration of #XAMLStudio v2 these last couple of weeks. 🎊 And so #WindowsDev to culminate it all, I'd like to announce that the project is now open-sourced! A seed project in the @dotnetfdn 🎉 Read all about this journey here: devblogs.microsoft.com/ifdef-window...

XAML Studio is now Open Sourced - #ifdef Windows

XAML Studio is now open sourced! It's a WinUI developer tool for rapid prototyping with XAML before integrating in a Visual Studio project.

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XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 7mo ago

On the twelfth day of Christmas XAML Llama sent to me 🥁🥁 Twelve Designers Designing 🥁🥁 #XAMLStudio v2 adds more designer-like features. Such as modifying in-place w/ control-specific Adorners. e.g. a TextBlock's Text shown here; WIP, stay tuned for more. #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev

XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 7mo ago

On the 11th day of Christmas XAML Llama sent to me 🎺🎶 Eleven Properties Presented 🎺🎶 The new Properties panel in #XAMLStudio v2 shows the visual tree, visual states, and, or course, properties of an element. See what's been modified or make changes directly to experiment! #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev

Screenshot of XAML Studio v2 showing the new properties panel. On the left, within the panel, at the top, is the Visual Tree shown from Day 9. The TextBlock is selected with the StackPanel shown as its Parent. This corresponds to the TextBlock XML element selected in the Editor in the lower-right. Below the Visual Tree is an "Add Property…" option, and then a list of properties categorized by control type. Text for TextBlock and VerticalAlignment for FrameworkElement are displayed with their corresponding values of "- The XAML Llama" and "Center". This corresponds to the XAML in the document and the preview displayed above it. Finally at the bottom of the list in the properties panel is a "- Modified -" group which shows "FontSize" set to the value of 48, which has made the preview text larger.

XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 7mo ago

On the tenth day of Christmas XAML Llama sent to me 👑🦘 Ten VisualStates Visualized 👑🦘 #WindowsDev ever want to visualize your visual states? #XAMLStudio v2 will let you see and manipulate the active visual states of a #XAML control! 🤯 #12DaysOfXAML

XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 7mo ago

On the eighth day of Christmas XAML Llama sent to me 🐄🥛 Eight Points Highlighted 🐄🥛 #XAMLStudio v2 is where the #WindowsCommunityToolkit #XAML Adorners are from! First used to highlight the bounds of elements just like Visual Studio, useful for mastering perfect layouts. #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev

Screenshot of XAML Studio v2 with a Border element selected in the Editor, the preview then shows the bounds of the Border with vertical and horizontal lines at each edge extending the length of the preview area. The size of the border is displayed in the middle as well as its position and total size in a box above it. The various borders, margins, and padding areas are colored as an overlay.

XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🎊 Happy New Year! 🎊 #WindowsDev using #XAML, have you been following the latest on #XAMLStudio? A new v2 is dropping this year! 🎉 Find out all about it with the #12DaysOfXAML below and join the windowsappcommunity.com/discord to get more insight in the xaml-studio channel!

XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 8mo ago

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me 🦙🍐🎄 A Llama in a #FluentUI #XAML Tree… 🦙🍐🎄 Happy Holidays! We're back for a classic twist to preview the upcoming 2026 #XAMLStudio v2 w/ #12DaysOfXAML! Now with a new Fluent coat 🧥! #WindowsDev 🦙🍐🎄

Screenshot of Desktop with Llama field background behind XAML Studio v2 IDE showing updated Fluent UI Design. A new navigation view is on the left akin to the Microsoft Store, and the tabs are within the titlebar of the application on top. The preview pane on the top-half of the app shows a Christmas tree with Happy Holidays from the XAML Llama and to stay tuned each Christmas Day for more previews of XAML Studio v2. The Editor below shows the XAML code which creates the scene above it.

XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 7mo ago

On the seventh day of Christmas XAML Llama sent to me 🦢🥽 Seven Resources Loaded 🦢🥽 #XAMLStudio v2 can show you the contents of a #XAML #ResourceDictionary! That's right! Iterate easily on all your knobs 🎛️, bells 🔔, whistles 🚂, whatever! 😲 #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev

Screenshot of XAML Studio v2 with a ResourceDictionary file open. It shows a variety of various keyed styles and other values which are then rendered above in the preview pane. Values like FontFamily, Thickness, FontWeight, GridLength, SolidColorBrush, and Style, all have a display showing a visual preview of what they represent.

XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 7mo ago

On the 4th day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me 📞🐦 Four new Toolbar Buttons 📞🐦 The Quick Access Bar, introduced in v1.1, has a new set of tools coming in #XAMLStudio v2! Including preview refresh, show/hide the alignment grid, theme toggle, and more to be revealed! #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev

Screenshot of XAML Studio v2's Quick Access Bar that resides between the preview pane and the XAML editor. It shows new buttons not seen in previous screenshots, from left to right: Refresh Preview, an unknown to be revealed segmented selector with two additional options - the default one on the left is currently selected, Toggle Alignment Grid, and Toggle Theme. The previous existing buttons are to the right of the gripper thumb bar for rotating the pane's positions and sharing the preview render.

XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 7mo ago

On the third day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me 🍟🐔 Three Breadcrumbs 🍟🐔 or more of Navigation… Making it even easier to keep track of where you are within your #XAML document. Click to jump to bring that element's line in view. #12DaysOfXAML #XAMLStudio #WindowsDev

Screenshot of the XAML Studio v2 IDE showing a familiar XAMLing example with the Debug Panel open tracking binding history. A red rectangle highlights an area above the XAML editor where a new breadcrumb navigation bar resides. It shows the breakdown of the XML document hierarchy starting from the root Page of the XAML document to the Caret's current position.

XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 8mo ago

On the second day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me 🐢🕊 Two tabs duplicated 🐢🕊 It may not seem like much, but I use this all the time to iterate on different ideas. #XAMLStudio v2 will be filled with many improvements small and large #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev

Screenshot of XAML Studio v2 Document Tab with context menu that contains a "Duplicate Tab" item. The app is atop Visual Studio shown in the background with various tabs of XAML Studio's code files open in the background.

XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🦙📢 #WindowsDev the #WindowsCommunityToolkit just released v8.2.251219! An incremental update with a bunch of great fixes from our community! Update today! #WinUI #dotnet #XAML #UnoPlatform #WinAppSDK github.com/CommunityToo...

Release v8.2.251219 · CommunityToolkit/Windows

What's Changed An incremental update of various fixes atop the 8.2 release: 8.2.251219. For changes since 8.1, see the full 8.2 release notes here. Below are changes since 8.2.250402. Bug Fixes Fi...

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XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#WinUI #XAML Adorners + drag manipulation was a bit harder but working alright... some interactions and scenarios which need more work, but happy with this for now. 😈 #WindowsDev #WindowsCommunityToolkitLabs

Sarcastic Shark Art @sarcasticsharkart.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A little sketch of a llama (Lama glama) for National Llama Day!! 💙🤘 Hope y'all are rockin' it as hard as we are! Paaaartaaaaay!! 🤣🦙 #llama #nationalllamaday #animal #animalart #nature #wildlife #cute #adorable #ArtYear #bskyart #sketch #pensketch #micronpens

Micron pen sketch of a llama (Lama glama) on Strathmore drawing paper

XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🦙 #WindowsDev played more w/ #WinUI #XAML Adorners in #WindowsCommunityToolkitLabs. Needs more testing, but promising start based off code mostly already in the WCT 8.0 Sizer controls! <Canvas> <Rectangle ...> <ui:AdornerLayer.Xaml> <adorners:ResizeElementAdorner />

XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🦙 So, folks requested Input Validation, eh? Adorners make this work for any input field, and it's super simple... 😅 <NumberBox DataContext="{x:Bind VM}" Value="{x:Bind VM.Age,Mode=TwoWay}"> <ui:AdornerLayer.Xaml> <local:InputValidationAdorner PropertyName="Age" />

Example of using WinUI XAML Adorners in the Windows Community Toolkit Labs to do input validation on any input element. The example shows a stereotypical input form with various textboxes and a number box. Some of the fields are marked invalid with a red border and an icon. A tooltip is displayed over the number box specifying the age must be between a certain range.

XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🦙 #WindowsDev just been reviving my experiment bringing #XAML based Adorners to #WinUI in #WindowsCommunityToolkitLabs. Coming soon™, quick to make Adorners with data binding, styling, and animations with all that XAML goodness! 🦙 github.com/CommunityToo...

XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🦙📢 Hey #WindowsDev, did you miss the Modern Windows Development with #dotnet talk at #dotnetconf yesterday? 😲 Have no fear, it's now on YouTube! 🎉 Learn all about #WinUI and #AIOnDevice with #FoundryLocal today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ8s...

Modern Windows Development with .NET

Windows development is more powerful than ever with .NET. This session explores modern approaches to building Windows desktop applications using the latest tools and frameworks. Discover how WinUI 3,…

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XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🦙 #WindowsDev did you know the #WindowsCommunityToolkit is 9 years old?! 🎉 Learn about the whole history from start to now here: github.com/CommunityToo... #WinUI #UnoPlatform #UWP #dotnet #MVVM #XAML #Windows

🎉 The Windows Community Toolkit is 9 years old! 🎉 · CommunityToolkit Windows · Discussion #722

Hey everyone, it's been 9 years since 1.0 of the Windows Community Toolkit (then UWP Community Toolkit) released! 🎉🎉🎉 Awesome Contributors 🏆 All this wouldn't be possible without all our…

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XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🦙 #WindowsDev find out all about the #WindowsCommunityToolkit on @inotifypodcastchanged.com this week! 🧰 You won't want to miss it! You are using the Toolkit for your #WinUI apps, right? Save yourself time, make gorgeous apps!

INotifyPodcastChanged@inotifypodcastchanged.com · 12mo ago

🎙️ Just published a new episode of INotifyPodcastChanged: Episode 8: Windows Community Toolkit with Michael Hawker. Have a listen:

Windows Central @windowscentral.com · last yr.

The Microsoft Store on Windows 11 (and Windows 10) is actually really great these days. Here's what's improved and why you should definitely give it another chance: www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

The Microsoft Store on Windows 11 is actually great now — here's why you should be using it in 2025

The Microsoft Store is now an incredible, reliable, and safe place to discover and download apps on Windows. Everyone should be using it, and it's time to give it another chance if you're not.

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XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · last yr.

#Developers looking to get started with #WinUI on #Windows? 🦙 Find out how to go from Zero to Hero with a complete tutorial of everything you need to know starting from scratch in #VisualStudio including learning about #XAML and #MVVM! #WindowsDev #dotnet 🦙 youtu.be/XO_LnDfsQmc?...

Build your first Windows app with WinUI and Visual Studio

Learn how to go from zero to hero building Windows app with WinUI! Take things at your own pace as we incrementally bring you on a journey ramping you up from a file new app to what you need to know to take your next steps with Windows development to building the next great Windows app. In this video, you'll get familiar with setting up your machine and starting a new project, what other resources you need as a Windows developer, learning about the MVVM pattern, and diving into the debugging tools for XAML apps available in Visual Studio. Get started with WinUI: https://aka.ms/windev Windows Developers YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WindowsDevelopers Get Visual Studio: https://www.visualstudio.com #visualstudio #winui #windows 00:00 - Introduction 00:47 - Getting started 07:17 - What is XAML? 15:08 - Adding data and logic with MVVM 20:07 - Call the IncrementCount method 22:45 - Debugging and what's happening behind the scenes 26:13 - Outro and resources

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Kayla Cinnamon ☕️@kaylacinnamon.bsky.social · last yr.

PowerToys v0.91 is here with TONS of Command Palette fixes and performance gains! New CmdPal features to call out: the activation shortcut can now use a low-level keyboard hook (i.e. Win+R or Win+Space) and you can now hide the system tray icon ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 github.com/microsoft/Po...

Release Release v0.91 · microsoft/PowerToys

In the v0.91 release cycle, we focused on new features, stability, and automation. Installer Hashes Description Filename sha256 hash Per user - x64 PowerToysUserSetup-0.91.0-x64.exe 190DD702...

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XAML Llama 🦙@xamlllama.bsky.social · last yr.

🦙 #WindowsDev implementing INotifyPropertyChanged again? Stop! Use the #MVVM Toolkit instead, and I better not see it on your #XAML controls... 👀 Find out all the info about when to use INPC over DependencyProperty here! 🧰 #WindowsAppSDK #WinUI #WPF www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGwz...

INotifyPropertyChanged vs DependencyProperty Which Is Better?

Are you implementing INotifyPropertyChanged again? Are using INotifyPropertyChanged on your UI control instead of a DependencyProperty? Stop! In this video w...

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