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- AI Context Kit: Cross-session persistence, context compression, easier distribution
- Skills Central: A Pragmatic Setup for Reusable AI Skills
- AI Context Kit, Evolved: Why I Moved to AGENTS.md + Agent Skills (and how I used the Codex macOS App for the Migration)
- AI Context Kit: A Portable Instruction System for Context-Aware AI Collaboration
- Share Copilot Prompts and Instructions Across Teams Using Rider and VS Code
- Version Control Your Diagrams: Automated PlantUML Rendering with GitHub Actions
- Integrating Sentry in .NET MAUI with Local File Logging
- CI-Ready macOS Signing: Combining Apple Distribution & Installer Certificates for GitHub Actions
- Exporting Apple Distribution Certificates for CI/CD the Right Way
- Automating Apple Builds: A Practical Guide to GitHub Secrets
- How to profile a .NET MAUI iOS application on macOS
- Crafting a Swift Timespan Type — With a Little Prompt Engineering Magic
- How to redirect across repository websites with Github Pages
- How to disable iOS 18 tab transition animation with .NET MAUI
- Handling lifecycle events on iOS and MacCatalyst with .NET MAUI
- How to modify the border of a .NET MAUI Entry on iOS and MacCatalyst
- A deeper look into menu bar handling in MacCatalyst apps with .NET MAUI
- Dealing with application windows on Windows with .NET MAUI
- Dealing with application windows on macOS with .NET MAUI
- PSA: My side projects, time, and platforms
- Prepare your Mac to be a Xamarin/.NET MAUI build host without VS4MAC [Updated]
- How to use the Android emulator on a macOS host for debugging in a virtual machine with Windows
- #CASBAN6 – How to create a facade to manage Azure Blob Storage with Azure Functions
- #CASBAN6: How to configure Azurite to use DefaultAzureCredential with Docker on macOS
- #CASBAN6: Add a Swagger (OpenAPI) page to Azure Functions
- How to lock orientation at runtime on iOS 16 with .NET MAUI and Xamarin.Forms
- Deploy MAUI apps with Rider on your iOS device after these Xcode errors
- #CASBAN6: Implementing the API endpoints with Azure Functions
- How to use the .NET CLI clean-up tools on macOS
- #CASBAN6: Function base class (and an update to the DTO models)
- #CASBAN6: Setting up an Azure Functions project for the API
- #CASBAN6: the DTOs and mappings
- #CASBAN6: Implementing the data model using EntityFramework Core (separate libraries)
- #CASBAN6: the data model explained
- #CASBAN6: How to set up a local Microsoft SQL database on macOS
- #CASBAN6: Creating A Serverless Blog on Azure with .NET 6 (new series)
- Make the IServiceProvider of your MAUI application accessible with the MVVM CommunityToolkit
- Invoke platform code in a MAUI app using the built-in Dependency Injection
- Using Microsoft’s Extensions.DependencyInjection package in (Xamarin.Forms) MVVM applications (Part 2)
- Using Microsoft’s Extensions.DependencyInjection package in (Xamarin.Forms) MVVM applications (Part 1) [Updated]
- Use the iOS system colors in Xamarin.Forms (Updated)
- #XFQaD: Compile XAML without code behind in Xamarin.Forms
- Dealing with the System UI on iOS in Xamarin.Forms
- Fix ‘Xcode is not currently installed or could not be found’ error in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac
- Workaround to force Xamarin.Forms WebView to use a dark mode CSS for local content on Android
- Extending glidex.forms on Android to load a placeholder for images that fail to load
- Extending Xamarin.Forms.Nuke on iOS to load a placeholder for images that fail to load
- Some helpful extensions when dealing with types in .NET
- Create scrollable tabs in Xamarin.Forms with CollectionView and CarouselView
- Scroll to any item in your Xamarin.Forms CollectionView from your ViewModel
- Code Snippets for Xamarin.Forms BindableProperty
- Sending push notifications to your Xamarin app from WordPress with Azure, Part II – the Function
- Sending push notifications to your Xamarin app from WordPress with Azure, Part I [new series]
- MSicc’s Blog version 1.6.0 out now for Android and iOS
- WordPressReader (Standard) updated to version 2.1.0
- #XfEffects: Forms Effect to automatically scale FontSize on Label
- Visual Studio Extensions that will make your life easier in 2020
- What I’ve learned from porting my first app ever to Android and iOS with Xamarin
- How to work around IDE freezes in Visual Studio 2019 when switching between Build configurations
- [Updated] #XfEffects: Xamarin.Forms Effect to change the TintColor of ImageButton’s image – (new series)
- How to host a code file on Github as Gist to use in your application
- How to avoid a distorted Android camera preview with ZXing.Net.Mobile [Updated]
- Use NuGets for your common Xamarin (Forms) code (and automate the creation process)
- A faster way to add image assets to your Xamarin.iOS project in Visual Studio 2017
- Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: Command Chaining
- Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: migrating the Forms project and MVVMLight to .NET Standard
- Xamarin.Forms, Akavache and I: ensuring protection of sensitive data
- Xamarin.Forms, Akavache and I: storing, retrieving and deleting data
- Xamarin.Forms, Akavache and I: Initial setup (new series)
- Using the built-in UWP data protection for data encryption
- How to perform asymmetric encryption without user input/hardcoded values with Xamarin iOS
- WordPressReader (Standard) version 1.2.0 focuses on improving performance
- Xamarin Android: asymmetric encryption without any user input or hardcoded values
- #XfQaD: Limit maximum lines of Label and indicate text truncation
- WordPressReader (Standard) library is now available on Nuget
- #XfQaD: read package identity and version from platform project with Xamarin.Forms
- #XfQaD: Using ProgressRing for UWP and keep a single activity indicator API in Xamarin.Forms
- Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: loading bundled assets in the Forms project
- [Updated] A workaround for Xamarin Forms 2.5 bug that prevents resource declaration in App.xaml
- Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: taking control over the back buttons
- Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: EventToCommandBehavior
- Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: showing dialog messages
- [Updated] Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: navigation and modal pages
- Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: Dependecy Injection
- Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I (new series) [Updated]
- [Updated] How to create a pure icon button for your UWP app
- My experiences with Xamarin.Forms
- Xamarin: Android Activities, Context, Intents and Views
- Xamarin: Resources of an Android app project
- Xamarin: how to set up an Android device for Debugging
- New Series: developing for Android with Xamarin
- Getting productive with WAMS: How to handle erroneous push channels
- Getting productive with WAMS: How to call Twitter REST API 1.1 from a scheduled script
- Getting productive with WAMS: how to set up a timeout before running code in an interval
- Getting productive with WAMS: respect time zone offset for every single user
- Getting productive with WAMS: how to update data for a specific row in a table
- New Series: Getting productive with Windows Azure Mobile Services (WAMS)
- How to format Date and Time on Windows Azure