In The Hand LtdSince the original release of InTheHand.AppCenter.Insights just over a week ago there have been a few hundred installs, which is nice. There has also been a major change at App Center and logging handled exceptions is now supported. Therefore the latest update (version 1.5) takes full advantage of this and utilises this new API so […]
If you haven’t already heard about Visual Studio AppCenter then you should check out this blog post introducing it. Microsoft have had multiple devops technologies which all lived in separate silos. Along with its own Azure Insights it inherited Xamarin Insights and Test Cloud when it acquired Xamarin and also HockeyApp. There was obviously a […]
The Xamarin Forms ListView control has a tough job – it has to provide a platform agnostic, rich data-bindable control and yet take advantage of the performance and look-and-feel of the native control on each platform. I recently discovered an odd gotcha for a specific usage. It’s possible to have rows with different heights. There […]
I’ve used the Xamarin.Forms Button in a number of projects and while it has slowly improved (adding support for images etc) it’s still lacking in a few areas. Recently I needed to add support for wrapping and truncation options and these are mysteriously absent from the stock control. For inspiration I looked at the Label […]
The Desktop App Converter (or Project Centennial) is a way of packaging up traditional desktop applications in appx format for the Windows 10 store. You would commonly use it for modernising an existing app. This allows you to take advantage of store distribution and incrementally add modern functionality to it. My requirement was a little […]
I’ve updated the InTheHand.Forms NuGet package with a few new features:- .NET Standard support. Stretch property to define how to handle cropping/zooming of the video to fit the MediaElement size. NaturalVideoWidth and NaturalVideoHeight allow you to adjust your UI based on the actual aspect ratio of a video file at runtime. Removed obsolete OnPlatform2 as […]
I recently got some estimate beacons and have been trying out various things with them. By default they are configured to support Apple’s iBeacon format and could be used in an iOS app to provide location awareness in a close environment. You can read the same data from UWP and can add some location/context awareness […]
I’ve seen a few articles on migrating your projects from CodePlex but they kind of ignore the Wiki and suggest just copying and pasting the text across. There is a way which will copy the entire contents and only require a little manual work. The instructions below are the steps I took to migrate the […]
While I prepare to refresh my main machine with Windows 10 Creator’s Update and the latest Visual Studio and Xamarin updates I thought I’d throw together a summary of open-source progress since I last blogged:- Since the announcement of CodePlex’s upcoming retirement I’ve been moving projects across to GitHub. 32feet and my Compact Framework archive […]
Recently I’ve been working with a selection of Bluetooth printers. During this work I’ve noticed an odd thing about the UWP Bluetooth APIs. It’s all about the Class of Device. These are a set of defined device types and are categorised into major and minor classes. For example a Printer has a Major class of […]
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