.NET
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Bluetooth Classic and Low Energy – Different Approaches
I often get asked about the different ways of using Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth Low Energy with 32feet.NET. This post looks at the two different approaches and a bit of historical context. Separate Libraries The first key point here is… Continue reading
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Book Review: .Net MAUI for C# Developers
Jesse Liberty and Rodrigo Juarez have created this book to guide the reader through all aspects of creating apps with .NET MAUI. It assumes a level of experience with C# and .NET but is not limited to previous Xamarin developers.… Continue reading
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Bluetooth from Unity
An ongoing issue with 32feet.NET is that it wouldn’t work inside Unity. The reason is that the System.Net.Sockets classes behave slightly differently in the Mono runtime to the desktop .NET framework and you can’t create a Socket using the Bluetooth… Continue reading
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