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]
Shiny all the things - writing testable code 12 March 2021 Dan-Siegel .NET, Xamarin Shiny all the things as they say. If you aren't using Shiny for your Xamarin.Forms or Uno Platform apps, the question is why? We see a lot of people excited about UI libraries these days. While UI is always an important ingredient of any successful app, no app is complete without a resilient and testable architecture. This is one of the reasons why I use Shiny in all of my apps today. But what is Shiny, and why should you be using it? [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]
Prism Quickstart Templates 16 July 2017 Dan-Siegel .NET, Prism, Xamarin So you had this great idea for an app... maybe you spent weeks planning with your team or with your client. The day finally comes to create the project. Suddenly you realize that we have this new .NET Standard thing and you want to take advantage of it. [More]
A Dot Net Developer on a Mac 07 April 2017 Dan-Siegel .NET, Xamarin Recently I had a chance to attend a meetup here in San Diego. To be honest, around other developers [More]
Prism Forms 6.3.0 Highlights 31 March 2017 Dan-Siegel .NET, Prism, Xamarin For those following Prism 6.3, it's been a while coming, but there is a lot there. Here are a few he [More]
Writing Cleaner, More Concise Code with Fody 16 March 2017 Dan-Siegel .NET We've all written code that we looked at and said, "Wow this sucks". It's not necessarily that the c [More]
Using Popup Pages with Prism for Xamarin Forms 20 January 2017 Dan-Siegel .NET, Prism, Xamarin So often as mobile developers we use some sort of Popup view. Really the reasons why we want to do t [More]