arduino How Mobile Apps Led Me to Microcontrollers I am fortunate to both attend and speak at Music City Code this week. I spoke Friday June 2nd on how my journey becoming a Xamarin mobile developer got me excited about microcontrollers.
xamarin Redth's Addins 1.0.6 Update I'm a big fan of the Redth's Addins extension for Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio. Specifically, I love the Obliterate menu option it adds to the IDE context menu. Creator, Jonathan Dick, makes
xamarin SQLite-net Async Connections: Keep It Clean If you use SQLite-net (aka sqlite-net-pcl on NuGet) and have seen disk I/O or connection exceptions in your applications, you may be overlooking some features of the library or mixing concerns. We
ios Xamarin Test Recorder for iPhone Xamarin Test Recorder is a really neat way to automate your mobile UI tests. The tool lets you connect your mobile application to a device or simulator and record interactions with your app.
xamarin Music City Code 2016: Native mobile apps beyond Hello World Thanks for showing interest in my topic at Music City Code 2016! Below are links for my talk. Native mobile apps beyond Hello World Xamarin lets you build native Android, iOS, and Windows
xamarin ICYSTT: Command Line Tool Trouble after Xamarin Cycle 7 Upgrade ICYSTT: In Case You See This Too Humor me. I'm trying this acronym as a way of signaling the content of posts where I struggle through a problem and come out the other
xamarin Android AltBeacon Library: Version 2.7 It's overdue, but I just published version 2.7 of the Android AltBeacon Library. You can find it on: GitHub NuGet Xamarin Component Store (update coming soon) What's new There have been several
controls Xamarin.Forms Carousel View Recipe I often see people on the Xamarin.Forms forums asking for a carousel-style control. We have the CarouselPage built in, but you can't resize the viewport or easily indicate which page you are
controls Material Design FAB in Xamarin.Forms James Montemagno recently blogged about More Material Design for Your Android Apps. In the post, James discussed two controls that he has built around Material Design components. One of the components is the
ios Cast Exception When Upgrading to Xamarin.iOS 8.6 Recently, Xamarin released major updates to its iOS and Forms platforms in order to support 32/64-bit architectures from a Unified API. These updates came across as Stable Channel updates in Xamarin Studio
xamarin Android Swipe ListView for Xamarin Open up your favorite Android e-mail app. As you scroll through your messages, you instinctually start swiping them left and right. You're either archiving the message - because you might need that arduino
xamarin Solved: My HTTP(S) Intent Filter Doesn't Work You've added an HTTP or HTTPS intent filter to your Android app with the hope of having your app launch when someone navigates to your defined Url. Seemed easy enough. Code in place,
httpclient Xamarin | Exception when posting HttpClient MultipartFormDataContent Consider the following code example: var fileName = "~stacktrace & stuff.txt"; var content = new MultipartFormDataContent(); var fileStream = new FileStream(String.Format(@"/mnt/sdcard/Download/{0}", fileName), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.
emulators Run an Android Emulator in OS X from Xamarin in Parallels If you've been looking for a way to develop your Xamarin Android apps in a Parallels Desktop Windows VM, but run the app in an Android emulator on your Mac, this post is
haxm HAXM Failure after Windows 8 Update As recommended by anyone that is doing Xamarin.Android development, I'm using Intel's Hardware Acceleration Manager (HAXM) to make my Android Emulators run faster (more here). After this week's Windows 8 security updates
ibeacons Xamarin.Android iBeacon Service With the emergence of iOS7, an interesting little nugget quietly came along - iBeacons. What are Beacons? Basically they're just a form of micro-location that uses Bluetooth Low Energy(BLE/Bluetooth 4.0/
configuration Auto-Populating POCOs from Custom Configuration Sections You've probably seen it a lot - creating strongly-typed maps to your Application or Web configs like they outline here. That's not bad, but that is a lot of magic string configuration madness!
orchard-cms Orchard MediaPickerField Bug with Azure Blob Storage Note: This bug has been resolved with Orchard 1.6 If your Orchard site is running as an Azure Web Role, chances are that your Media is stored in Blob Storage. This presents
fields MediaPicker Field Placement Not Working I posted out on Codeplex that I was having some issues with the placement of my MediaPicker field in a custom module I was building. Some suggested that perhaps my Placement naming wasn't
custom-forms Help With Orchard Custom Form Placement So, you want to add a contact form to your Orchard site. There used to be a few fine Contact Form modules in the Orchard Gallery, but with the latest 1.5 release,
sql Limit A LINQ Left Join To One Row Here is an example of using LINQ to return a List of all active Employees and their most current Mobile Phone number (if they have one). Check it out: var query = (from emp
wcf WCF – The Remote Server Returned An Unexpected Response: (400) Bad Request When trying to call out to a WCF service, I was receiving the error: The remote server returned an unexpected response: (400) Bad Request. If you’re seeing the same thing, I might
