In The Hand Ltd

.NET

  • NFC support for all Uri types

    In order to save a few bytes, there is a special mechanism used in Uri NFC tags where one byte is reserved to match with specific Uri prefixes. A value of zero means the following text contains the full Uri,… Continue reading

  • MVP for 2025

    I’m really pleased and humbled to have been re-awarded the Microsoft MVP award for 2025. This year I’ve been awarded in the .NET category as my focus has been on .NET MAUI and .NET across multiple platforms. When I started… Continue reading

  • Writing NFC Tags in .NET

    I first added NFC code to 32feet.NET back in 2020. However, as other priorities came along it never got fully polished and released on NuGet. This year I finally got around to it and updated the code for .NET 8.0… Continue reading

  • 32feet – Bluetooth LE Device Discovery on iOS

    When I created the InTheHand.BluetoothLE library I modeled the API on WebBluetooth as this gave a simple API surface but as it was designed to run within a browser sandbox some of the functionality is intentionally limited. For device discovery… Continue reading

  • Android deep-links and NFC

    Deep-linking is the ability to define a Url which will direct the user straight to a specific feature of your app. On Android these are called App-links, for iOS they tend to be called Universal links. These can be an… Continue reading

  • UI’ve Been Framed

    Recently I’ve been migrating Xamarin Forms UIs to .NET MAUI and have come across a recurring problem. The Frame control was a core part of Xamarin Forms and used for drawing a border and/or shadow around a control. With the… Continue reading

  • Farewell Tasks for Alexa

    Just over four years ago I released a free Alexa skill to synchronise your Microsoft To-do list with Alexa’s own lists. Sadly any effort to create an add-on for another product usually ends in either the product getting “sherlocked” or… Continue reading

  • Asking for Permission

    I’ve been asked a number of times about the process to ask for Bluetooth permission for your app. I’ve been meaning to create something reusable for some time but it has languished on the To Do list for rather too… Continue reading

    Asking for Permission

  • Buffered Streams and the Courtesy Flush

    One of the challenges with 32feet.NET is to try to provide as consistent an experience as possible on multiple platforms even though the underlying implementation varies wildly. One such case is with Bluetooth Classic and the stream used to read… Continue reading

  • DependencyService for all

    I was recently looking at migrating some code from Xamarin Forms to Uno Platform and one of the big changes when moving from Xamarin Forms to .NET 6 and later is a move towards using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection on all flavours of… Continue reading