Making DevOps Easy with Mobile.BuildTools 07 July 2021 Dan-Siegel .NET, Xamarin It's been quite a journey if I'm honest. In fact as I look back over the last several years it's really crazy too look at what the Mobile.BuildTools has transformed into from it's humble origins as a collection of PowerShell scripts I was tired of rewriting every time I started a new app. Spoiler, the Mobile.BuildTools 2.0 does so much for you over what 1.x could do I had to put together a full docs site and json schemas for the configuration so that I could remember it all. [More]
Source Generators an Exercise in futility 22 December 2020 Dan-Siegel .NET, Prism, Xamarin Some time ago I did a live stream with Jérôme Laban from the Uno Platform team on Source Generators. This actually predated a lot of the more recent excitement with the Roslyn based Source Generators that are now generally available as part of Visual Studio 16.8. As I got to learn more about Source Generators I quickly learned just how powerful they are.. because I'm lazy and dislike manually doing more than I have to (most developers I know are the same way). [More]
Demystifying the SDK Project 21 August 2018 Dan-Siegel .NET, Xamarin The new SDK Style projects really help make what's going on in the project system easier to understand and customize because it's not polluted by a lot of insanity. [More]
.NET Standard & the New Project Format for Xamarin Developers 29 March 2018 Dan-Siegel .NET, Prism, Xamarin .NET Standard has really changed the ballgame for .NET Developers. In large part because the entire project system has experienced a revamp. [More]
Xamarin Package Authoring 12 May 2017 Dan-Siegel Xamarin Obviously the answer is to decouple the code you wrote from your last project and put it into it's own project. The problem you ran into though is that you develop on a Mac and NuGet is for PC right? [More]
.NET Debug - Remote Debugging Setup 13 October 2014 Dan-Siegel .NET We all might try to pretend that the code we wrote is perfect and will never break, but if there is [More]