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- 17 Oct Share Copilot Prompts and Instructions Across Teams Using Rider and VS Code
- 21 Jul Version Control Your Diagrams: Automated PlantUML Rendering with GitHub Actions
- 13 Jul Lead Essentials: UI + Presentation Module finished (White Belt 3rd stripe)
- 06 May Integrating Sentry in .NET MAUI with Local File Logging
- 18 Apr Lead Essentials: Persistence Module finished (White Belt 2nd stripe)
- 04 Apr How I migrated my Mastodon account to micro.blog
- 27 Mar CI-Ready macOS Signing: Combining Apple Distribution & Installer Certificates for GitHub Actions
- 22 Mar Exporting Apple Distribution Certificates for CI/CD the Right Way
- 18 Mar Automating Apple Builds: A Practical Guide to GitHub Secrets
- 03 Mar 5 Learning techniques you should know
- 28 Feb How to profile a .NET MAUI iOS application on macOS
- 25 Feb Lead Essentials: System Design and Networking Modules finished (White Belt 1st stripe)
- 05 Jan Crafting a Swift Timespan Type — With a Little Prompt Engineering Magic
- 26 Dec Coding, Running, and Growing: Reflecting on 2024 Achievements
- 19 Dec How to redirect across repository websites with Github Pages
- 02 Dec Finished Course: iPhone Apps for Complete Beginners with Swift, SwiftUI & iOS17 (PacktPub)
- 27 Nov How to disable iOS 18 tab transition animation with .NET MAUI
- 25 Nov New Course: I joined the iOS Lead Essentials program 🎉!
- 01 Nov Welcome from the Jekyll version of my blog
- 23 Aug Book review: The MVVM pattern in .NET MAUI
- 24 Jul Handling lifecycle events on iOS and MacCatalyst with .NET MAUI
- 16 Jun How to modify the border of a .NET MAUI Entry on iOS and MacCatalyst
- 17 May Finished course: From Zero to Hero: Unit testing for C# Developers (Dometrain)
- 16 Jan A deeper look into menu bar handling in MacCatalyst apps with .NET MAUI
- 20 Dec 2023 – yet another annual review [Editorial]
- 10 Nov Dealing with application windows on Windows with .NET MAUI
- 03 Nov Dealing with application windows on macOS with .NET MAUI
- 14 Sep PSA: My side projects, time, and platforms
- 07 Sep Prepare your Mac to be a Xamarin/.NET MAUI build host without VS4MAC [Updated]
- 24 Jul How to use the Android emulator on a macOS host for debugging in a virtual machine with Windows
- 19 Jul #CASBAN6 – How to create a facade to manage Azure Blob Storage with Azure Functions
- 07 Jul #CASBAN6: How to configure Azurite to use DefaultAzureCredential with Docker on macOS
- 13 May #CASBAN6: Add a Swagger (OpenAPI) page to Azure Functions
- 30 Apr How to lock orientation at runtime on iOS 16 with .NET MAUI and Xamarin.Forms
- 09 Apr Deploy MAUI apps with Rider on your iOS device after these Xcode errors
- 25 Mar #CASBAN6: Implementing the API endpoints with Azure Functions
- 17 Feb How to use the .NET CLI clean-up tools on macOS
- 20 Jan #CASBAN6: Function base class (and an update to the DTO models)
- 07 Jan #CASBAN6: Setting up an Azure Functions project for the API
- 21 Dec My annual review (2022) [Editorial]
- 11 Dec #CASBAN6: the DTOs and mappings
- 19 Nov #CASBAN6: Implementing the data model using EntityFramework Core (separate libraries)
- 11 Nov #CASBAN6: the data model explained
- 12 Sep #CASBAN6: How to set up a local Microsoft SQL database on macOS
- 05 Sep #CASBAN6: Creating A Serverless Blog on Azure with .NET 6 (new series)
- 02 Jul Make the IServiceProvider of your MAUI application accessible with the MVVM CommunityToolkit
- 09 Jun Invoke platform code in a MAUI app using the built-in Dependency Injection
- 19 Feb Using Microsoft’s Extensions.DependencyInjection package in (Xamarin.Forms) MVVM applications (Part 2)
- 13 Feb Book review (and recommendation): Learn T-SQL Querying
- 08 Feb Using Microsoft’s Extensions.DependencyInjection package in (Xamarin.Forms) MVVM applications (Part 1) [Updated]
- 31 Dec Goodbye, 2021!
- 11 Dec Use the iOS system colors in Xamarin.Forms (Updated)
- 30 Nov #XFQaD: Compile XAML without code behind in Xamarin.Forms
- 15 Nov Dealing with the System UI on iOS in Xamarin.Forms
- 05 Jun Fix ‘Xcode is not currently installed or could not be found’ error in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac
- 06 Apr Workaround to force Xamarin.Forms WebView to use a dark mode CSS for local content on Android
- 26 Mar Extending glidex.forms on Android to load a placeholder for images that fail to load
- 15 Mar Extending Xamarin.Forms.Nuke on iOS to load a placeholder for images that fail to load
- 31 Dec Goodbye, 2020!
- 10 Oct Some helpful extensions when dealing with types in .NET
- 17 Jul Create scrollable tabs in Xamarin.Forms with CollectionView and CarouselView
- 19 Jun Scroll to any item in your Xamarin.Forms CollectionView from your ViewModel
- 05 Jun Code Snippets for Xamarin.Forms BindableProperty
- 15 Mar Sending push notifications to your Xamarin app from WordPress with Azure, Part II – the Function
- 29 Feb Sending push notifications to your Xamarin app from WordPress with Azure, Part I [new series]
- 14 Feb MSicc’s Blog version 1.6.0 out now for Android and iOS
- 01 Feb WordPressReader (Standard) updated to version 2.1.0
- 17 Jan #XfEffects: Forms Effect to automatically scale FontSize on Label
- 05 Jan Visual Studio Extensions that will make your life easier in 2020
- 21 Dec My 2019 (a short review)
- 19 Nov What I’ve learned from porting my first app ever to Android and iOS with Xamarin
- 01 Oct How to work around IDE freezes in Visual Studio 2019 when switching between Build configurations
- 17 Sep [Updated] #XfEffects: Xamarin.Forms Effect to change the TintColor of ImageButton’s image – (new series)
- 12 Sep Create an additional SSH-login enabled user for your Azure Linux VM without third-party tools
- 09 Sep Run your own Bitcoin Full Node on an Azure Linux VM
- 18 Jun How to host a code file on Github as Gist to use in your application
- 26 Apr How to avoid a distorted Android camera preview with ZXing.Net.Mobile [Updated]
- 16 Apr Crypto and Blockchain projects & tools (April 2019)
- 05 Feb Use NuGets for your common Xamarin (Forms) code (and automate the creation process)
- 30 Dec 2018 in review – Focus on Xamarin, RIP UniShare, the rise of crypto and blockchain
- 07 Oct Introducing Coinpaprika and announcing C# API Client
- 09 Aug A faster way to add image assets to your Xamarin.iOS project in Visual Studio 2017
- 16 Jul How Steemit changed the way I use traditional social networks
- 06 Jul Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: Command Chaining
- 28 Jun Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: migrating the Forms project and MVVMLight to .NET Standard
- 22 May Xamarin.Forms, Akavache and I: ensuring protection of sensitive data
- 21 May Xamarin.Forms, Akavache and I: storing, retrieving and deleting data
- 06 May Xamarin.Forms, Akavache and I: Initial setup (new series)
- 01 May Using the built-in UWP data protection for data encryption
- 27 Apr How to perform asymmetric encryption without user input/hardcoded values with Xamarin iOS
- 22 Apr WordPressReader (Standard) version 1.2.0 focuses on improving performance
- 19 Apr Xamarin Android: asymmetric encryption without any user input or hardcoded values
- 21 Mar #XfQaD: Limit maximum lines of Label and indicate text truncation
- 17 Mar WordPressReader (Standard) library is now available on Nuget
- 13 Feb #XfQaD: read package identity and version from platform project with Xamarin.Forms
- 26 Jan #XfQaD: Using ProgressRing for UWP and keep a single activity indicator API in Xamarin.Forms
- 31 Dec Saying Goodbye to 2017 [Editorial]
- 20 Dec Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: loading bundled assets in the Forms project
- 14 Dec [Updated] A workaround for Xamarin Forms 2.5 bug that prevents resource declaration in App.xaml
- 30 Oct Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: taking control over the back buttons
- 29 Sep Why I am (once again) using an iPhone [Editorial]
- 16 Jul Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: EventToCommandBehavior
- 29 Jun Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: showing dialog messages
- 14 Jun [Updated] Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: navigation and modal pages
- 02 Jun Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: Dependecy Injection
- 26 Feb Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I (new series) [Updated]
- 13 Aug Editorial: Why the app gap on Windows Phone/10 Mobile is a bigger problem than I thought
- 10 Aug [Updated] How to create a pure icon button for your UWP app
- 07 Jun Playing around with Microsoft Hololens
- 20 Mar [Updated] How to create a multi architecture NuGet Package from a UWP class library
- 08 Mar How to add and consume an AppService to your UWP app (complete walkthrough)
- 26 Feb How to create a RSS feed web tile with notifications for your Microsoft Band
- 31 Dec Review of 2015–my first year in Switzerland
- 04 Jul How to implement a simple notification system in MVVM Windows 8.1 Universal apps
- 30 Jun How to add Microsoft Application Insights v1 to your Windows 8.1 Universal app
- 20 May [Updated] String Encryption in Windows 8.1 Universal apps
- 25 Mar How to implement a bindable progress indicator (loading dots) for MVVM Windows (8.1) Universal apps
- 26 Feb Helper class to easily display local toast notifications (Windows Universal app)
- 16 Feb How to easily check the pressed keyboard button with a converted event using MVVM (Windows Universal)
- 04 Feb Simple helper method to detect the last page of API data (C#)
- 30 Dec Review of a geek’s 2014
- 19 Dec Goodbye Telefónica (Germany), Hello ShareCommService (Switzerland)
- 18 Dec My experiences with Xamarin.Forms
- 27 Nov How to use WordPress to display remote notifications in your Windows Phone app
- 25 Nov Editorial: We are all humans (why racism sucks)
- 18 Nov How to capture a photo in your Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime app – Part III: capturing and saving the photo
- 15 Nov How to capture a photo in your Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime app-Part II: some common modifications
- 14 Nov How to capture a photo in your Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime app–Part I: the preview of the photo to capture
- 28 Oct How to generate a round image button for your Windows Phone 8.1 app (to use everywhere)
- 25 Oct How to create a folder in Windows Phone 8.1 Pictures Library (and save/read files into/from it)
- 10 Oct How to shorten an url with Bitly asynchronously on Windows Phone
- 04 Oct Helper class to handle In-App-Products (IAP) licenses on Windows Phone (SL)
- 27 Sep Prevent accidentally exit of your Windows Phone SL app (with Telerik RadMessageBox or Toolkit CustomMessageBox)
- 16 Sep How to create an Extended Splashscreen for Universal Apps
- 06 Sep WordPressUniversal – a PCL library for WordPress based C# mobile apps
- 26 Aug Book review: iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook (Dimitris Tavlikos)
- 03 Aug Book review: Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Geoff Webber-Cross)
- 28 Jun How to load a list of a user’s twitter friends/followers in your Windows Phone app
- 08 Jun How to connect your Windows Phone 8 & 8.1 app to Yammer
- 02 Jun How to use the WebAuthenticationBroker in a Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight app
- 24 Apr How to send a mail from your Windows Phone 8.1 app
- 22 Apr How to detect all urls in a string to match Twitter’s requirements (Windows 8(.1) and Windows Phone 8(.1))
- 19 Apr How to use the WebAuthenticationBroker for oAuth in a Windows Phone Runtime WP8.1 app
- 11 Apr Thanks for 50,000 downloads in the Windows Phone Store
- 28 Mar How to use Text to Speech to read text aloud on Windows Phone 8
- 21 Mar How to create a time based & cancelable BackgroundWorker for Windows Phone (and others)
- 17 Mar AppAdditives PromotionalCodes, Telerik trial reminder and how to let users unlock the full app on Windows Phone
- 15 Mar [Update 3] UserVoice WP8 library for user features
- 13 Mar Detect and remove Emojis from Text on Windows Phone
- 03 Mar Xamarin: Android Activities, Context, Intents and Views
- 20 Feb How to build a custom Application Bar for your Windows Phone app (the easy way)
- 22 Jan How to integrate tickets from uservoice into your Windows Phone app
- 20 Jan How to integrate the feedback forum of uservoice into your Windows Phone app
- 19 Jan How to authenticate users with the uservoice API on Windows Phone
- 13 Jan How to fetch articles from your uservoice knowledgebase into a Windows Phone app
- 11 Jan Service post–domain chaos finally has an end (msicc.net is back)
- 09 Jan [Updated] NFC Toolkit uri schemes
- 06 Jan Experiment: using uservoice.com for Support, Feedback and FAQ
- 05 Jan A simple approach to remove QueryStrings from NavigationContext on Windows Phone
- 30 Dec A year in the like of MSicc – my review of 2013
- 30 Dec Xamarin: Resources of an Android app project
- 29 Dec Xamarin: how to set up an Android device for Debugging
- 26 Dec New Series: developing for Android with Xamarin
- 23 Dec Merry Xmas, everyone!
- 08 Dec [Updated] Why Windows Phone apps deserve a custom uri scheme (and how to add a simple launch uri)
- 02 Dec How to update a live tile in a background task with web data on Windows 8.1
- 29 Nov How to update a live tile in a background agent with web data on Windows Phone
- 11 Nov How to work with the user’s music library on Windows Phone
- 10 Nov Add your app: List of uri associations for Windows Phone
- 06 Nov The very weird way of checking if Bluetooth or Location is enabled
- 30 Oct How to select an item of (Rad)ListPicker control via speech recognition
- 29 Oct Make your app listening to the user’s voice
- 21 Oct How to modify the Background of a Telerik RadListPicker Control
- 20 Oct How to save a List or a Collection on a NFC tag
- 10 Sep Getting productive with WAMS: How to handle erroneous push channels
- 27 Aug Getting productive with WAMS: How to call Twitter REST API 1.1 from a scheduled script
- 18 Aug Use Telerik RadControls for WP? Then use RadDiagnostics to enable users to find bugs!
- 14 Aug Getting productive with WAMS: about the mpns object (push data to the user’s Windows Phone)
- 07 Aug Getting productive with WAMS: how to set up a timeout before running code in an interval
- 14 Jul Getting productive with WAMS: respect time zone offset for every single user
- 13 Jul Getting productive with WAMS: how to update data for a specific row in a table
- 05 Jul New Series: Getting productive with Windows Azure Mobile Services (WAMS)
- 22 Jun How to use and customize “pull to refresh” on Telerik RadDataBoundListBox
- 04 May How to format Date and Time on Windows Azure
- 02 Apr Are lockscreens outdated?
- 03 Mar How to search the Windows Phone Store within your app
- 02 Feb Dev Story Series (Part 5 of many): Styling a WebView or WebBrowser element
- 01 Feb Announcement: beta test for NFC Toolkit
- 30 Jan Application ID’s of built in Windows Phone 8 apps
- 29 Jan Dev Story Series (Part 4 of many): How to open links from a WebBrowser/WebView in Internet Explorer
- 20 Jan Who is it that actually complains about WP?
- 15 Jan Tap+Send: The Love Story of 2 NFC Devices
- 13 Jan Dev Story Series (Part 3 of many): Why I use a WebBrowser/WebView to display WordPress post content
- 12 Jan Dev Story Series (Part 2 of many): Getting recent posts from WordPress into your Windows Phone and Windows 8 app
- 08 Jan Be a social network ninja with this Windows Phone apps
- 06 Jan (Update) MSicc’s Blog now for Windows Phone and for Windows 8 available!
- 30 Dec Editorial: 2012 – what a year!
- 23 Dec Merry Xmas from Msicc’s Blog
- 22 Dec Manage your Facebook fan page(s) on the go with Page Manager for Windows Phone
- 14 Dec [WPDEV] How a typo helped me to force SystemTray.Foreground to be White
- 11 Dec Sean’s Editorial: This Is How I Use “Rooms” For WP
- 20 Nov Meet Steve at Berlin
- 18 Oct Dev Story Series (Part 1 of many): Creating a data class for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone app
- 04 Oct Smart little helper to clean HTML based strings for [WPDEV] and [WIN8DEV]
- 08 Sep Editorial – the relationship between developers and users
- 29 Aug Post #200 or what exiting times we have with Microsoft
- 20 Aug Fishing Knots + update to version 1.6 and some other changes
- 19 Aug WPDEV: smooth SplashScreen transition for your Windows Phone app
- 10 Aug WPDEV: 2 tools that make localization of your Windows Phone apps easy
- 08 Aug Must have photo apps for Windows Phone (Summer 2012 Edition)
- 03 Aug My 2 cents to Microsoft’s “Metro” disaster
- 21 Jun BinaerForceOne´s take on Windows Phone 7.8 vs. Windows Phone 8
- 19 May I learn to tie my shoes – now available on Windows Phone (deal inside)
- 04 May [WPDev] Add Multiline Text to a Resource File in Windows Phone
- 02 May [WPDev] How-to create a tile without app title for Windows Phone
- 15 Apr Windows Phone panorama comparison: Nokia vs. HTC
- 03 Apr Does Windows Phone really need Google to take off?
- 31 Mar How to install the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 on W8CP (WPDev)
- 28 Mar Fast Application Switching (FAS) also for 256 MB devices
- 27 Mar Microsoft lures developers with million deal
- 24 Mar Announcement: Writing WP7-News for 1800PocketPC.com
- 23 Mar (Updated x2) How to prepare W8CP for Metro apps on devices with small screen resolutions
- 22 Mar Official! over 70.000 apps on WindowsPhone Marketplace
- 21 Mar (Updated) What will be new in Windows Phone Tango (WindowsPhone 7.5 Refresh)
- 17 Mar Confirmed: Google is working on a G+ app for WindowsPhone
- 14 Mar Happy Birthday, Xbox!
- 12 Mar Spotify is finally heading to Germany
- 10 Mar Microsoft shows what Windows 8 means for developers at CeBIT
- 10 Mar The force is with Microsoft at CeBIT 2012
- 10 Mar My CeBIT 2012 review
- 07 Mar Bing Maps SDK on Windows 8 (W8CP)
- 07 Mar Microsoft is telling us how Windows 8 is ready for business
- 05 Mar Microsoft at CeBIT 2012: “Microsoft Heartbeat – The Power of Design”
- 03 Mar WPDEV on W8CP: How to install the Windows Phone SDK
- 04 Jan What´s up for Microsoft in 2012?
- 30 Dec My review of a year with Microsoft and a to-do-list for 2012
- 28 Dec Microsoft wants your Feedback on WindowsPhone – Developer and User!
- 22 Dec Merry Christmas!
- 21 Dec (Update) GEMA and BITKOM reached an agreement for online music services
- 01 Dec Fishing Knots 1.4 is available & on Christmas Sale!
- 27 Nov HTC Titan vs. Nokia Lumia 800
- 19 Nov (Update) How the GEMA cuts the user experience in Germany
- 05 Nov HTC HD7 vs. Radar vs. Titan (in the sun comparison)
- 27 Oct Fishing Knots updated to 1.2 and free version added
- 08 Oct [Update] Fishing Knots is available in the WP7 marketplace
- 03 Oct [Update] Important News: Internet Sharing on Windows Phone Mango
- 24 Aug Update 5: Microsoft’s way to treat WP7-Users outside the US
- 14 Jul Buy In-App Content via Xbox Live on WP7
- 11 Jul A Consumer Sight on Ballmers Keynote at WPC 2011
- 03 Jul Windows Phone Mango Dev-Beta Hands-On
- 24 Jun [Update] My Blog at Facebook
- 18 May World IPv6 Day
- 13 Apr What´s next for Windows Phone 7?
- 12 Apr Keynote @MIX11