In this second post of my #XfEffects series, I am going to show you how to make the text of a Label grow and shrink within a defined range, based on the Xamarin.Forms.NamedSize enumeration.
17
Jan
2020
05
Jan
2020
Visual Studio Extensions that will make your life easier in 2020
We finally arrived in 2020 – time to kick off my blogging year as well. With this post, I will show you some of the Visual Studio Extensions I am using frequently and that are making my life as a developer a bit easier.
21
Dec
2019
My 2019 (a short review)
Once again, Xmas is around the corner. Time to reflect some of the things that happened throughout the year and also look ahead to what the new year will bring.
19
Nov
2019
What I’ve learned from porting my first app ever to Android and iOS with Xamarin
I finally finished to port my first app ever from Windows Phone to Android and iOS – Fishing Knots + is finally published in the Google Play Store as well as on the Apple Appstore. This post summarizes what I’ve learned during the process of porting.
01
Oct
2019
How to work around IDE freezes in Visual Studio 2019 when switching between Build configurations
After updating to the latest Visual Studio version (16.3., followed by 16.3.1), two of our solutions at work with custom Build configurations all of sudden began to hang when switching between them.
17
Sep
2019
![[Updated] #XfEffects: Xamarin.Forms Effect to change the TintColor of ImageButton’s image – (new series)](https://msicc.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/title-imagebutton-tintcolor-effect.jpg)
[Updated] #XfEffects: Xamarin.Forms Effect to change the TintColor of ImageButton’s image – (new series)
Every now and then, we need to customize our Xamarin.Forms apps to match a theme or other requirements. The Forms API has already a lot of options, but sometimes they aren’t enough. A common practice is to write custom renderers, but with the Effects API, there is another cool kid in town.
12
Sep
2019
Create an additional SSH-login enabled user for your Azure Linux VM without third-party tools
In this post, I am going to show you how to create a new user and enable login only via SSH for your Linux VM on Azure without any third-party tools.
09
Sep
2019
Run your own Bitcoin Full Node on an Azure Linux VM
In this blog post, I am going to show you how to set up a Bitcoin full node on Linux inside a virtual machine on Azure.
18
Jun
2019
How to host a code file on Github as Gist to use in your application
It is a common practice to host configurations or data files that may change frequently on the web. This post will show you how to use Gist on Github to host such a file.
26
Apr
2019
![How to avoid a distorted Android camera preview with ZXing.Net.Mobile [Updated]](https://msicc.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/qr-code-3970681_1280.jpg)
How to avoid a distorted Android camera preview with ZXing.Net.Mobile [Updated]
QR code scanning is a common task a lot of apps are using lately. With ZXing.Net.Mobile, we have a library at hand that makes this pretty easy in our Xamarin applications. This post will show you how to avoid a distorted camera preview when using the library on Android and explains why it might happen.
