.NET / C# Archives

.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
With: 2 Comments

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
With: 9 Comments

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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Xamarin Android Automated CI Publishing Using MSBuild & JetBrains TeamCity

I love automating processes and making things consistently repeatable. Continuous integration is your friend, yes it can take time to…

Posted on: July 7, 2015
By: jammer
With: 4 Comments

Learning MvvmCross

Learning a new technology can sometimes be a very time consuming and error prone process. The more complex the technology…

Posted on: July 4, 2015
By: jammer
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Xamarin Android AXML Intellisense

Hmm ... missing your lovely Xamarin Android intellisense in the Visual Studio .axml code editor? Me too ... The Solution…

Posted on: July 2, 2015
By: jammer
With: 2 Comments

View IISEXpress Hosted Sites On Your Local Network

This is a useful little tidbit of knowledge to have. Suppose you can browse to your new spanky site using…

Posted on: July 2, 2015
By: jammer
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Upgrading MVC4 to MVC5 and WebAPI1 to WebAPI2 – MEF – DotNetOpenAuth

Originally Written 20 June 2014 So, if you have found this blog post as you are going through this process…

Posted on: June 30, 2015
By: jammer
With: 2 Comments

Xamarin – The Baptism of Fire – Windows 7

So as I blogged a few days ago about the issues I was having with getting to grips with all…

Posted on: June 24, 2015
By: jammer
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