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.
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.
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.
![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)
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.
There are thousands of blockchain and crypto projects floating around. Some may be the next shooting stars, some may disappear. During the few months I have been active in this space, I found some projects that I watch, follow and contribute to. This post will give you a short overview.
When it comes to cross-platform development, some of you probably have code they use again and again – just like I do. Some time ago, I started to organize these snippets into libraries and pack them as NuGet packages. In this post, I’ll show you how to do the same and automate package creation and (local) distribution.
2018 was a year with quite a few ups and downs. This post is about what happened – from dying apps to new interests and new projects.
