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:

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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