Nico Vermeir
Co-Owner at Martinas Bieren
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolNico Vermeir is a seasoned .NET architect and co-owner of Martinas Bieren with over a decade of experience building Windows and mobile applications from UI to backend. Based in Brussels, he leads .NET architecture at RealDolmen and has deep expertise in UWP/WinUI, XAML tooling and mobile development, contributing notable UI components to the Windows Community Toolkit and improvements to the popular XamlStyler extension. A Microsoft MVP and founding board member of the Belgian Modern App Developer Network, he blends community leadership and teaching with hands-on engineering. Outside of software he’s an avid brewer and heavy metal enthusiast, reflecting a practical, craft-focused approach to both code and life.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Regina Pacisgraduaat programmeur, analysis, programming .net, graduaat programmeur, analysis, programming .net at CVO-AalstA2, Informaticabeheer, A2, Informaticabeheer at VHTI
French, Dutch, English
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Github Skills (16)
uwp10
uid10
winui10
visual-studio-extension10
front-end-development10
visual-studio10
ui-design10
csharp10
xaml10
dotnet-core10
dotnet-new9
asp-net9
windows-app-sdk9
dotnet9
net9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Xavalon/XamlStyler
May 2016 - Dec 2022
Visual Studio extension to help format your XAML source code
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 13 reviews, 50 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nico contributed to the XAML Styler Visual Studio extension, focusing on improving compatibility and functionality. They added support for different Visual Studio versions and Blend, indicating work on both the extension's core functionality and its integration with the IDE. The user also addressed bugs and updated the project structure for better performance, demonstrating a commitment to maintaining the extension. Furthermore, the user worked on dynamically loading the package when a XAML file is opened.
xamluwpuwp-applicationsvisual-studio-extensionuwp-apps
CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nico primarily contributed to the development of UI components, specifically the "BladeControl" and related functionalities like title bars and close buttons. The commits involved the creation of new classes, properties, and UI elements within the UWP framework, demonstrating a focus on front-end development. The user also added a sample blade to the sample app and made minor adjustments such as adding nameof() to dependency properties and removing the tap event in blades.
mvvmwindows-sdkc-sharpcustom-controlswindows-10
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