![Sending push notifications to your Xamarin app from WordPress with Azure, Part I [new series]](https://msicc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Webhook_title.png)
It is no secret that push notifications help to keep your users engaged. There are a bunch of options out there if you have a WordPress blog. This is the first post of a new series that shows you to send them from a self-hosted WordPress installation to your Xamarin mobile app via Azure.
Besides updating my WordPressReader library and making some minor visual changes to my blog, I also updated both the Android and iOS apps for my blog.
WordPressReader (Standard) has been updated to version 2.1.0. Read on to learn what’s new in this update.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
![[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)
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.
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.
