#windowsrt

Windows RT is Dead

There isn’t much to say about this. If you couldn’t see this coming, you’re probably the type of person that starts every episode of “Game of Thrones” episode expecting your favorite characters to get a cookie and a puppy by the end, then act surprised when the puppy has to watch it’s whole family get brutally slaughtered, while Joffrey eats the cookie dripping with their blood (spoiler…

Applies to Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1 (XAML)

In your xaml.cs of your custom user control:

// Fire the event when a button clicks private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) {       MyCustomEventArgs arrrg = new MyCustomEventArgs();       arrrg.SomeMessage = "Hello world!";       arrrg.SomeValue =  3.1415926;       OnThingHappened(arrrrg); }

// The thing that fires the event protected virtual void OnThingHappened(MyCustomEventArgs e) {       EventHandler<MyCustomEventArgs> handler = ThingHappened;       if (handler != null)             handler(this, e); }

// The event public event EventHandler<MyCustomEventArgs> ThingHappened;

Outside of the user control class (I usually put mine just below in the same file when I'm just hacking stuff together):

public class MyCustomEventArgs : EventArgs {       public string SomeMessage { get; set; }       public double SomeValue { get; set; } }

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