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  • Bluetooth for MAUI

    Quick update today as I’ve just published new builds of InTheHand.BluetoothLE and InTheHand.Net.Bluetooth to NuGet which support the new .NET 6.0 MAUI target platforms. There were some small code changes to make in the iOS/macOS APIs and on Android I… Continue reading

  • When is a BluetoothRadio not a BluetoothRadio?

    A user of 32feet pointed out a change in behaviour between version 3.5 and 4.0. If you disabled the Bluetooth radio after initially getting a reference to the default radio it would still show the Mode as Connectable/Discoverable. I looked… Continue reading

  • Improving Keyboard Navigation with NavigationView

    Thy Phone uses the NavigationView control to provide a pop out navigation pane to provide a similar UI to Your Phone. I was contacted this week by a user indicating problems with the app for blind users – it doesn’t… Continue reading

  • Ukraine

    It’s difficult to come up with the right words to describe what we are seeing unfolding in Ukraine. It’s very easy to feel completely powerless. Our own government (United Kingdom) have been very weak with their response both in terms… Continue reading

  • 32feet for WinRT

    Currently the 32feet Bluetooth Classic library for Windows is build around the Win32 API to ensure support for Windows 7 as well as theoretically supporting prior versions no longer officially supported. It has always been my aim to implement the… Continue reading

  • Happy Birthday .NET

    .NET is 20 years old this month. I can remember when I first encountered .NET and C# and found it a great step forward from Visual Basic and the C++ and Java I had learned at university. However, what really… Continue reading

    Happy Birthday .NET

  • We Don’t Talk About IrDA

    We take for granted that every mobile phone, tablet and laptop has Bluetooth built in, and probably use it all the time for headphones, mice etc without even thinking about developing software for it. There was a time long ago… Continue reading

  • Back to the Future With C++/WinRT

    Recently I was asked to investigate a scenario for a desktop C++ application. It was something I’d done before with C# and used a number of WinRT APIs. This meant I had to refresh myself in C++ which has changed… Continue reading

  • Moving from MvvmLight to Microsoft Mvvm Toolkit – Messaging

    I recently needed to rework an existing Xamarin project and replace the MvvmLight implementation with the new Microsoft Mvvm Toolkit. This is generally an easy process and it has been designed as the spiritual successor to Laurent’s library. One area… Continue reading

  • 32feet.NET on .NET 5.0 and Above

    Version 4.0.22 of InTheHand.BluetoothLE (and 4.0.25 of InTheHand.Net.Bluetooth for Rfcomm) marks an important milestone. It adds a .NET 5.0 specific build which is important because the approach used to access WinRT APIs has changed since .NET Core 3.x and so… Continue reading