If you’re working in Xamarin on iOS and running into trouble selecting from your graphic Assets when trying to set the image on an ImageView control in the Storyboard designer, read on. It turns out that in the latest version of Xamarin there’s a weird bug that’s shown up in … Continue reading
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
