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Easy Blog with WordPress, Azure Web Apps and the Azure Gallery
WordPress is a very popular platform. Using Azure plus Web Apps plus the Azure Marketplace you can easily spin up a WordPress site without having to touch any code. The provisioning process takes care...
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xam.plugins.connectivity – all APIs Sample
Esteemed Xamarin evangelist James Montemagno ( https://twitter.com/JamesMontemagno ) has a fantastic cross platform plugin for working with connectivity scenarios in Xamarin. The plugin works with...
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Global resources in Xamarin Forms! No App.xaml? Create one!
Xaml developers moving to Xamarin Forms are hoping to take some of their good habits from the Windows (WPF/Silverlight/UWP) dev world with them. And probably a few of their bad ones as well but we...
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New project type has XAML forms by default
Xamarin has some great documentation. The article at [ https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/xaml/xaml-basics/getting_started_with_xaml/ ] shows how to get started with Xaml by using the...
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Roslyn Analyzer Deltas for VS2017 RC3
One of my favorite features in VS2015 is the Roslyn based live static code analyzers Interactive IDE feedback on my code gives me ‘opportunities for improvement’ to my code. Think FxCop++ without...
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On passing the Xamarin Mobile Developer Certification Exam
Microsoft likes us to have some technical certifications. Personally I enjoy the challenges of the tests. This year my goals were the Windows 10 UWP Developer exam ( Developing Mobile Apps 70-357 –...
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Data access via SqlDataReader in ASP.NET Core 1.1 and 2.0
I’d been working with a client who wanted to access SqlServer directly from an ASP.NET Core application. I’d been using Entity Framework for my ASP.NET Core access so I had to dig in a bit on this one,...
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Exploring DataTable and SqlDBAdapter in ASP.NET Core 2.0
.NET Core 2.0 Preview was released May 2017. Great timing as one of my customer was inquiring re DataTable and SqlDBADapter support in ASP.NET Core. Instructions to wire it up are below. First, pull...
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Rigging up Roslyn Analyzers in .NET Core
I love Live Code Analyzers in VS2017. The analyzers help identify bad coding patterns, resource leaks and just generally aid one be a better developer by alerting when things are not done optimally....
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AdalException : authentication_ui_failed with ADAL and Xamarin Forms Android
Recently I was helping a client with an Azure Active Directory integrated project ( ADAL not MSAL for some various reasons ) . All was going well and good as I plugged away with the various integration...
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