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Gaming Software Development Practices

I've never worked for a gaming studio. Nor have I ever written a game but I have got 25 years…

Posted on: April 2, 2021
By: jammer
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Microsoft Documentation Is Getting Worse and Worse

Over the last few weeks I've been noticing a distinct trend with Microsoft documentation and examples and often just plain…

Posted on: March 7, 2021
By: jammer
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Goodbye WiX Installer => Hello Advanced Installer

Adventures in the land of Windows Packaging ... WiX - Windows Installer XML Before I start, this isn't a WiX…

Posted on: February 19, 2021
By: jammer
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Migrating Complex WPF Prism Applications to .NET5

I've just come off the back of migrating to NET5. Yup, attempting, you did read that right. So why am…

Posted on: January 30, 2021
By: jammer
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Technofog

Technofog (/tɛkˈnɒ/fɒɡ/) - the confluence of domain specific jargon, technical debt and knowledge gaps that negate sensible use of even…

Posted on: June 11, 2019
By: jammer
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Some Useful Azure Charts

During my journey through the wonderful world of Azure I've come across a couple of useful charts so I thought…

Posted on: April 2, 2019
By: jammer
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.NET Geographic Searches

I recently had to implement a localised search mechanism on an API. Maths and Trigonometry aren't my strengths it has…

Posted on: August 19, 2017
By: jammer
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SQLite Extensions for .NetStandard NuGet

I just created a couple of NuGet packages for helping to consume SQLite in .NetStandard1.5 applications. Includes all the nice…

Posted on: July 20, 2017
By: jammer
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Windows 10 UWP – Emulator- The Revenge

I'll tell you why UWP is suffering. The UWP flavour of XAML is a mere shadow of WPF and the…

Posted on: March 1, 2017
By: jammer
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ReSharper 10 Speed Woes

I love ReSharper, I really do feel slightly lost when using Visual Studio and hitting Alt+Enter doesn't offer the same…

Posted on: March 29, 2016
By: jammer
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var thisIsSo = DateTime.Now.AddYears(-1);

– .NET Brain Fart

MvvmCross iOS Support and Samples

A while ago Martijn van Dijk and I had a very brief chat about creating an MvvmCross iOS Support library…

Posted on: February 16, 2016
By: jammer
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Abstracting APIs – Abstract Potentially Insane?

There's no doubt about it, things that help are good. This topic of abstraction came up in a chatroom the…

Posted on: December 20, 2015
By: jammer
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View Model Value Change Tracking in MvvmCross & Xamarin

Change tracking object contents at first might seem like an easy or straightforward task but there are lots of pitfalls…

Posted on: December 19, 2015
By: jammer
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Whitelist SSL Certificates in .NET for Xamarin / MvvmCross Apps

I have a fairly complex development environment for my current project and needed to allow some self-signed certificates to pass…

Posted on: December 15, 2015
By: jammer
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iOS Keyboard Handling in MvvmCross View Controller

I've just had to handle the situation where a user taps on a text editor control in an iOS view…

Posted on: December 12, 2015
By: jammer
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Enable ASP.NET 4.5 On Windows 10 or Windows 8/8.1

By default IIS and ASP.NET aren't configured as part of a Windows setup (for obvious reasons) so developers are used…

Posted on: September 22, 2015
By: jammer
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Xamarin Android Player in Windows 10

After having upgraded to Windows 10 I found that I had some networking issues running the Xamarin Android Player. When…

Posted on: August 1, 2015
By: jammer
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Package Dependencies & Deploying .NET

I recently had a requirement to completely package up a .NET application so that it was extremely portable beyond it's…

Posted on: July 13, 2015
By: jammer
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WPF ListBoxItem Selected Background Highlight in Windows 8

When targeting the way a ListBoxItems are styled on pre Windows 8 platforms you could easily change with style syntax…

Posted on: July 8, 2015
By: jammer
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