coding style Enforcing a consistent Coding Style across projects and programming languages Coding with style is hard. Especially because it is a very personal and opinionated thing – as always when it comes to style. To not offend anyone in the team but still follow a consistent code format, teams should agree on a consistent set of rules and implement automatic formatters which
announcements Microsoft Build 2018: App Innovation Highlights From Monday to Wednesday, //build 2018 conference took place in Seattle. It’s in the nature of Microsoft’s largest and most importantdeveloper conference to announce a bunch of cool stuff and updates to their Cloud, AI, and Frontend developer tools and services. Here are my developer centric highlights
android Easy tricks to boost the native Android integration of your cross-platform apps Most mobile developers write their Mobile Apps on a Mac, which makes it super easy to quickly test them in the iOS Simulator. Naturally, this results in prettier iOS than Android apps, as we see discover flaws on iOS more often. Using an Android Emulator mostly, is not an option,
azure Replace your old cronjobs with free Azure Functions within 5 minutes For some of my older projects, I had some repetitive tasks where a simple job triggers a script to run and loadsome data from the web. For this, I used good old cronjobs like the ones cronjob.de offers. As this was expensive und quite unsatisfying in terms of
Development Free self-guided Xamarin workshop Two days ago, I gave a Xamarin workshop at the Microsoft Technical Summit 2016 conference in Darmstadt (Germany). This was a full-day workshop with a Xamarin introduction at the beginning and a guided workshop experience, where the participants learned how to Setup a Xamarin development environment Create native cross-platform apps
Development Move your Xamarin.Forms Toolbar to the bottom on Windows While iOS and Android typically have their toolbars and menus at the top of the page, on Windows you will find it at the bottom in most cases. Unfortunately, Xamarin.Forms renders all toolbar to the top of the page per default, even on Windows. So if you define a
azure Different ways to register devices to the Azure IoT Hub The Azure IoT Hub is Microsoft’s Internet of Things solution inthe cloud. Beside the commoneventmessage endpoints, it contains a device management system, which allows to register and manage devices that may send data to the IoT Hub. This increases security by generating a unique access key
azure Manually connect and send data to an Azure Event Hub Update 04.02.2017: As theMicrosoft.Azure.EventHubs NuGet package since two days finally support every .NET platform, this post go obsolete. Azure Event Hubs provide a neat way to collect loads of data that is pushed against them and holds it until its processing. Microsoft offers an SDK
Development How to upload your UWP app to HockeyApp right HockeyApp provides a neat and easy to use service for developers to provide apps to their testers and track anonymous usage data, crashes and feedback. As the Windows 10 (UWP) support is still in preview, the documentation on how to provide a Universal Windows App to your testers right is
android Analyze a photo with Microsoft's Cognitive Services Vision API on Xamarin.Android Microsoft’sCognitive Services are intelligent machine trained APIs that analyzed text, images, videos and more for you in the cloud and sends you back meta information about the provided content. They are free to use until a specific threshold and a nice easy to use thing to integrate in
Development How to install an UWP app distributed with HockeyApp The HockeyApp platform is one of the most popular ways of distributing pre-release software to testers and collect their anonymous usage data, crashes and feedback. As it is quite easy to install Android or iOS apps on your devices, when it comes to Windows things are getting a bit more
Development Xamarin free for everyone - What developers need to know At//build 2016conference, Microsoftannounced to include Xamarin into their existing offers and make the cross-platform solution free for everyone. Now asXamarin is part of Visual Studio 2015, some things are changing for developers so let’s take a look at what how the Xamarin ecosystem will transform.
Development Bring your Windows 10 Apps to Xbox One At Build Conference 2016, Microsoft finally announced that they will open the Xbox One store for your UWP apps in summer. From now on, the developer program for the gaming console is open and we can take a first look at how to bring new or existing Windows 10 apps
cortana Cortana Integration #1: Hey Cortana, work with my Windows app! In the video game series Halo, the relationship between the protagonist and his AI companion Cortana is very close and intensive. On the new Windows platforms, users now also have the chance to interact with Cortana as a personal assistant. But for achieving the same intensive relationship with the user
android Swipe to refresh your Xamarin Android app Most apps that deal with online data have implemented a refresh mechanism. If you want to enable your users to trigger this on their own, providing a“swipe to refresh” implementation is a common and intuitive design pattern. Users canpull down from the top of apageto trigger
android Show a custom dialog in your Xamarin Android app Sometimes you want to show your users a dialog that contains more than just text and buttons. In those cases the pre-defined <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlertDialog.html">AlertDialog</a>that come with Android will need some adjustment. Read
Cloud Want to create Xamarin.iOS apps without buying a Mac? Rent one! As a mobile developer you will know that a MacOS device is stringently requiredto build and run iOS apps. Same is with Xamarin: You can write your code wherever you want but when it comes to compiling you need aMac. Fortunately Xamarin ship a tool called Build Host
android Add a stylish Navigation Drawer to your Xamarin.Android application These hamburger menus do not only look neat, they also provide a great way of navigating through an application and display additional information or quick settings. Since Google itself uses them in nearly every application users expect one of them when swiping from the left side of the screen. In
Development My Visual Studio solution won't build although it should. What can I do? Visual Studio isundoubtedly the best development environment you could get your hands on – but sometimes it can drives you crazy. Espacially in these cases where you know that a project should build but it doesn’t no matter how hard you try. What you can do is trying these
Development Beautify Chome's JSON Viewer If you use Google’s Chrome browser to test and develop web applications you might have noticed that the default JSON output is always unformatted. This can often lead to an output like this: <code class="language-markup">{"id":"262588213843476","about"
Development Add a documentation to your ASP.NET WebApi in 3 simple steps A well documented API is a welcome part of every software project. Everyone wants a great documentation, bot nobody really wants to write one. Especially when creatingan API whichmany different people should use, this aspect becomes very important. Furthermore many Scrum teams’ acceptance criteras contain a documentation requirement.
Angular Use expressions to build variable names in Angular.js When working with HTML and JavaScript you sometimes have to do weird things to achieve a specific purpose. In my case one of these things was building a variable name with Angular expressions. While generating a form via ng-repeat, I also had to generate the name of the inputelement.
android Get rid of cables and Remote Debug your Android device! Cables are a companion of our everyday life but a necessary evil. I personally avoid using them wherever it is possible and even charge my phone wireless. As a mobile developer you always have a bunch of cables in you bag but the time may come where we do not
android How to fix Xamarin Android Player in Windows 10 If you have recently updated your PC to Windows 10 you might have noticed that our beloved Xamarin Android Player does not work anymore. Whenever we try to start it, the error message “Could not configure host-only network. Please reboot the computer and try again.” appears.This problem is caused
Development Adding Drag and Drop to your Android application with Xamarin Since touchscreens have conquered our everyday life, drag and drop functionality accompanies us on our way through the digital world. The simplicity of this intuitive design pattern is responsible for its success story. This is why you should enhance you applications by implementing it. And this is easier than you
