Last week I got into a conversation with Christine Blanda on the Xamarin Forms forum about creating a page that had a built-in Activity Indicator that could be enabled/disabled by just setting properties. It turns out that I was at a point in one of my projects where I needed just such a component so […]
Continue readingSo I am digging around the Dynamics CRM 2015 Spring Update, as I am apt to do, when I ran across something that needs to be changed. There is a recurring bulk delete job that automatically deletes any plug-in trace log records older than one day, as you can see below: This is a little […]
Continue readingThere were a couple of threads (here, and here) this week regarding querying an Internet-based time server using Xamarin forms. The first thing you need to do is download Sockets for PCL from Nuget, written by Ryan Davis. The source may be found here. Using Ryan’s updated sample code from the second formum thread, I’ve […]
Continue readingOne of my current projects makes used of ListView Grouping and for quite some period of time, I could not understand why my custom header template was not working, when code from other people’s projects that I had seen worked just fine. So yesterday, I decided I had had enough and spent a couple of […]
Continue readingYay Team! Here is a bright and shiny bit of newness that has been added to the Date field condition operators: So we now have the ability to query for things that are older than X: Minutes Hours Days Weeks Months Years Hat’s off to the CRM Dev team. This has been a long time […]
Continue readingXamarin is holding contest to get ideas of how beacons (iBeacons) can be used to context-aware mobile applications. I have been doing a lot of research on beacons so I thought I’d share some of my ideas. The Concept: In the last concept, Beacon Idea #6: Your bag has arrived, we discussed how to receive […]
Continue readingXamarin is holding contest to get ideas of how beacons (iBeacons) can be used to context-aware mobile applications. I have been doing a lot of research on beacons so I thought I’d share some of my ideas. The Concept: Notify you when your bag is at the bag claim It’s late, you’ve had a long […]
Continue readingSo if you have been reading my blog frequently over the past few months you will notice that I have been doing lot of mobile-related development, mostly with the Xamarin platform (which I absolutely love, btw). One of the projects that I’m working on will involve the use of beacon, or iBeacon, technology. I thought […]
Continue readingThere was a really great thread on the Xamarin Forms forum yesterday regarding taking screen shots of your mobile application. I thought I would share this information here to summarize the conversation. From Outside the Application Greg Shackles wrote a great article about using Xamarin UITest to generate screen shots using the built-in functionality of […]
Continue readingXamarin is holding contest to get ideas of how beacons (iBeacons) can be used to context-aware mobile applications. I have been doing a lot of research on beacons so I thought I’d share some of my ideas. The Concept: Restaurant Check and Loyalty Program You would like to create a program that rewards your regular […]
Continue readingXamarin is holding contest to get ideas of how beacons (iBeacons) can be used to context-aware mobile applications. I have been doing a lot of research on beacons so I thought I’d share some of my ideas. The Concept: Find my friends You are at a conference and need help locating your friends who are […]
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