TL;DR I created iOS and Android apps for the 2017 Duluth Homegrown Music Festival (@dhgmf / #hgmf17). Get them here: iOS https://goo.gl/LCT1ZY Android https://goo.gl/KrDIiO Support If you have any questions or comments about the app, please email me: joe@joesauve.com About the app

I frequently find myself wanting to delete the bin and obj folders from my projects while developing in Xamarin on OS X. I usually do this by just deleting them manually via Finder. But there's too many clicks involved and too much room for error. So, why not use OS

Dapper I just recently discovered the Dapper micro-ORM for doing data access in applications. I had been using Entity Framework (EF) 6 in the APIs of most of my apps. And don't get me wrong, EF is a joy to use, it really is! But it has some shortcomings that

Summary The development of mobile apps presents many challenges, the primary being: How does one ensure that the deliverable of the development process is an app that experiences pervasive and positive engagement with the target users? In other words, how do I make sure that I create an app that

Weather conditions sound like they'll be perfect across MN this afternoon for viewing the partial solar eclipse. The event will begin at about 4:30pm and will peak right before the sun slips below the horizon around 5:30 - 6pm. Maximum eclipse will occur at 5:30pm. All times

One of the most exciting bits of news at Xamarin Evolve 2014 last week in Atalanta was the announcement of Xamarin Insights, a new platform/service/libraries for gathering data from mobile apps on sessions, crashes, and events. And while there's already a bunch of tools available for this type

A rapidly developing industry yields a cacophony of terms The field of mobile app development (or simply "app development", as its known in the future) is one that's changing so fast, it can be difficult to keep up with all of the terms or be able to make

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I'm working on a Xamarin iOS/Android mobile project in which the core view of the app displays some images and data from some web calls. The app designer didn't like the way that images loaded AFTER they scrolled onto the screen (think Facebook). So, I had to come up

When I first started doing MonoTouch development (later to become Xamarin.iOS), the ability to use XCode's Interface Builder (IB) was at the time a broken feature with MonoDevelop. Further, the framework that I was using at work for writing apps had it's own UI abstraction API, so I didn't

If you've ever used ReSharper (or even CodeRush from DevExpress) for Visual Studio, you know just how useful these development productivity tools are, and how you often wonder how you ever got along without them. Now, if you're like me and you've had the pleasure of diving into mobile development

So, I finally have my own licenses (subscriptions) for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android! This lets me feel good about the prospect of working on personal app projects, and not needing to use the employer's laptop and subscriptions to do it. The fresh subscriptions go quite nicely with my new

I installed the new iOS 7 SDK and the corresponding Xamarin.IOS SDK. It was cool to have the iOS 7 simulator running on my laptop and be able to play with iOS 7 a little bit. However, hell ensued when I ran the app that I've been working on,

The iOS app I've been working recently is heavy on displaying lists of stuff, particularly lists of stuff with tap actions in the cells/views. I chose to use UICollectionViews instead of UITableViews. Similar to a UITableViewController, UICollectionViewController has a method that you need to override in order to build

So, this Cisco VPN error blighted my productivity for a few days: "Reason 442: Failed to enable Virtual Adapter" Apparently, this is caused by the Cisco VPN installer placing the wrong adapter name in the registry during installation. Seriously??? A registry hack is what it takes to fix this??? Booooooo,

Just received a nice fat box of assorted Xamarin T-shirts for the crew at the office! Thanks to Erik Polzin at Xamarin for hookin' us up!!!

I recently setup GitTfs at work because, while working on a cross-platform mobile project, my co-workers and I were beginning to have severe code conflicts using TFS (imagine that). One of the stumpers I ran into while setting it up was just the simple act of cloning the TFS repo

When evaluating a new mobile project, the technical stakeholders will more than likely be asking the question, "How much of our existing code can be leveraged?" And rightly so; code re-use is one of the fundamental tenets of object oriented programming. A really great online tool announced today

Understanding the nuances between the different types of iOS provisioning profiles (and how they relate to the different types of iOS Developer programs) can be a real pain. I never found a nice visual aid in Apple's documentation, so I decided to make my own: The important distinctions to notice

So, you have your fancy dancy .NET WCF service all completed and working nicely. But...it has that ugly ".svc" in the URL: http://YourSite.com/YourFancyWebService.svc/GetStuff Yeah...that looks gross. Let's make it prettier: http://YourSite.com/YourFancyWebService/GetStuff If you've used the Visual Studio

Xamarin announced Test Cloud last week. It's a cloud-based testing tool that allows you to run your app on a plethora of actual devices. Apparently, all of these devices are physically wired up to Test Cloud, so you can get real results on how your app will run on the

I just discovered Orchard CMS, and I must say that based solely on the open source projects upon which it relies, it looks like a GREAT platform. Namely, AutoFac, Log4Net, NHibernate, Castle Windsor, Moq, and SpecFlow. Just the fact that the developers are using these architectural and testing tools tells