As a consultant I work on several different projects throughout a calendar year and I may need to circle back to old projects. It is very useful for me to have a virtual machine I can just boot up ...
Xamarin Android Out of Memory Build Failure
In Xamarin.Forms or Xamarin Android your project might get to a point where you run into issues with the java build failing for what appears to be no reason. At first glance the OutOfMemoryExceptio...
Xamarin.Forms Untrusted Certificate SSL Development Workaround
On my Xamarin.Forms project I am using an Untrusted Certificate (SSL) just for development on my local machine and with the development servers. This has caused several headaches and issues while t...
WPF Multitouch Gestures - Translation, Scale and Rotate
At the end of my last project I spent some time getting touch gestures to work on a WPF application. This was surprisingly easy and difficult at the same time. This will be part 1 of a 2 part blog ...
Fix Azure Mobile App Services Template for Xamarin iOS
Azure Mobile App Services sets you up with a nice template builds all of your boiler plate code. When I went through the setup on the Azure Portal and downloaded the template locally I ran into all...
Deploying NuGet Packages to VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services)
Managing project dependencies can be complicated, from handling shared libraries, 3rd party libraries, homebrew libaries and forks of open source libraries. There is a need for just about every pro...
How To Develop iOS Without a Mac
You have decided to take your first stab at iOS development and you do not have a physical Mac machine running OS X but you have a device running iOS. You can still develop for iOS while you wait f...
Development Blog Launched
I am Skye Hoefling and I am a Software Engineer. This is my introduction blog post about my development blog. I am a C#/.NET expert or at least I play one on TV and I want to share my knowledge wit...