.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 With: 0 Comments
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 With: 0 Comments
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 With: 0 Comments
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 With: 0 Comments
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 With: 0 Comments
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 With: 0 Comments
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 With: 0 Comments
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 With: 0 Comments
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 With: 0 Comments
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 With: 0 Comments
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 With: 0 Comments
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 With: 0 Comments
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 With: 0 Comments
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 With: 0 Comments