The first decision you need to make when creating a new Xamarin Forms project is whether the common code should be kept in a Portable Class Library (PCL) or Shared [code] Project (SP). Coming as I was from Microsoft Universal app territory I was already predisposed towards using the Shared … Continue reading
This is the first of a series of posts covering my new adventures in Xamarin. For those not yet in the know, Xamarin is a cross-platform mobile development system that allows C# programmers to create native iOS and Android applications using the delicious C# language they already know and love. … Continue reading
When I started this post I found myself writing about the history of inheritance as a technique, of how far back it goes and various languages that supported inheritance long before .Net inheritance came on the scene. Needless to say I scrapped most of that – if you’re here reading … Continue reading
Did you feel a slight disturbance in the force? That was Microsoft releasing [in beta] Project Siena, a Windows 8 “modern” app that allows non-developers (and devs looking for a shortcut and/or prototype) to very quickly create very functional Windows 8 Modern applications. When I say “very functional” I mean … Continue reading
I had a conversation the other day with another developer who was annoyed with a small problem. He had just been handed a block of data that needed to be imported into a SQL database for an application he was developing. It was a one-time load and at about 50,000 … Continue reading
I was recently talking with a friend of mine about how best to edit some values in a Microsoft SQL Server table. There were several hundred rows in the table and outside of attaching to it via Access there was talk of writing a “quick” program to do it, etc. … Continue reading
