More and more build scenarios using Azure Pipelines require complex customization which have been simplified by the Configuration As Code feature that has been available in Azure DevOps for a coupl...

Xamarin.Forms provides a simple control for adding tabs to any application but the standard implementation has some limitations. With a little knowledge of how iOS and Android work you can start cr...

Edit 1/20/2023 This blog was written in 2019 when I was live coding on Twitch.tv. I have not done this in many years and have updated parts of this entry to include the original text but with st...

When adding custom animations to your Xamarin Applications don’t immediately jump to the custom renderers and platform specific code, it is not needed. Often overlooked the Xamarin.Forms Animation ...

When building Xamarin Apps there is no easy out of the box mechanism to control your enviornmental settings such as web service url as your app migrates through the different environments such as D...

Xamarin.Forms 3.2.0 released a new feature that is sure to be a favorite among many developers. The TitleView allows developers to quickly customize the Navigation Bar like they never had to before...

It is a good practice to sign your source control commits especially if you work in Open Source Software. On popular Open Source platforms it is very easy for someone to impersonate you by using yo...

Deploying a .NET Framework WebJob to Azure is easy enough, but as of writing this blog the tooling is lacking for .NET Core. Many organizations are making it an initiative to migrate their .NET Fra...

Installing Microsoft SQL Server on Windows Server Core for any of your enviornments should not be a daunting task, even for a developer that doesn’t have an IT Team. Let’s go through the simple ste...