PSA: My side projects, time, and platforms
Announcements like this one are never easy, not for me and also not for others. In order to get stuff finished and done, I have to streamline my efforts when it comes to my side projects, though. ...
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Prepare your Mac to be a Xamarin/.NET MAUI build host without VS4MAC [Updated]
Overview You can connect to a Mac Build host from your Windows machine without Visual Studio for Mac installed. All you need is to install the right packages, which are (luckily and for the time b...
How to use the Android emulator on a macOS host for debugging in a virtual machine with Windows
Preface With .NET MAUI now available, I started to port my Xamarin.Forms applications to the new cool bits. The iOS version of my Fishing Knots app went quite smoothly, but I really had a lot of t...
#CASBAN6 – How to create a facade to manage Azure Blob Storage with Azure Functions
Why the facade? You might wonder why I am creating this facade to manage file uploads to the Azure Blob Storage. There are two main reasons. The first one is that I wanted to have a common endpoin...
#CASBAN6: How to configure Azurite to use DefaultAzureCredential with Docker on macOS
Before we will have a look at the promised facade for uploading files to Azure’s Blob storage, I want to show you how to configure Azurite to use the Microsoft Identity framework with Docker on mac...
#CASBAN6: Add a Swagger (OpenAPI) page to Azure Functions
Why? Adding a Swagger page to any API project (not only with Azure Functions) is nowadays one of the most common steps. Implementing the OpenAPI specification makes your API easily testable during...
How to lock orientation at runtime on iOS 16 with .NET MAUI and Xamarin.Forms
The old way Before iOS 16, it was pretty easy to lock a Page into a certain orientation. It was basically just one line of code (if you don’t count the DependencyService boilerplate code in): UI...
Deploy MAUI apps with Rider on your iOS device after these Xcode errors
The Error I am working a lot with .NET MAUI lately (both at work and for my private projects) and I use JetBrains Rider as the primary IDE on macOS. If you try to deploy an iOS app, your first att...
#CASBAN6: Implementing the API endpoints with Azure Functions
After my last post, we have the base implementation ready to be used for our endpoints. As we already know, our endpoints will feature the CRUD pattern to interact with the endpoints. Please note: ...
How to use the .NET CLI clean-up tools on macOS
Earlier this week, the .NET SDK and Runtimes received some updates. Together with that, also Visual Studio for Mac was updated. Once I got past the installation of all updates, both Visual Studio a...