I want to start up a series of blog posts where I talk about things that I think are cool. They can be time savers, productivity tools, podcasts, books, products, or even people. The point is - if I find something that's cool and helps me out in…
Xamarin Studio
Code Mill Minute: Stopping the "ThisApp May Slow Down Your iPhone" Message
Welcome to another Code Mill Minute installment! Or where I take a break from writing a long article and write a quick post about a small problem or annoyance that we Xamarin developers happen upon every day. In this installment we’re going to take a look at a brand…
Xamarin.Forms Shared Project XAML Headaches
At first I was going title this post Creating a Xamarin.Forms Shared Project App? Do This First! And the contents of that post were going to solve one of the problems that every developer faces when creating a Forms application using shared projects. Namely, that of referencing custom controls…
Welcome New Xamarin Developers!
Wow – Microsoft made a pretty big announcement today at Build 2016, no? Xamarin will now be included in all versions of Visual Studio … for FREE! This removes a pretty sizable barrier for people and companies from trying Xamarin and all of the cross platform development goodness it delivers … cost. So…
Code Mill Minute: Debugging With Visual Studio ... But Not From Windows
The Situation You need to debug a web based project running in Visual Studio – but the thing you want to initiate the debugging from isn’t a web browser running on Windows… Let’s say it’s a physical iPad – or maybe an iOS simulator running on a Mac and…
Code Mill Minute: The Coolest Xamarin 4 Feature Ever!
On November 17, Xamarin unveiled a huge set of new features collectively known as Xamarin 4. These features pretty much touched the entire Xamarin product lineup – big and small. Some highlights include: * Xamarin Forms 2.0 This is a big time release [https://developer.xamarin.com/releases/xamarin-forms/xamarin-forms-2.0/…