In this blog post, I will show you how to open external application from Xamarin.Forms application. My demo application will try to open locally installed application, otherwise it will open app store web page where app can be downloaded and installed. So, let’s start. First, I create Xamarin Forms application targeting Android and iOS. In […]
A C# Source Generators, as Microsoft defines it, is “a new C# compiler feature that lets C# developers inspect user code and generate new C# source files that can be added to a compilation. This is done via a new kind of component that we’re calling a Source Generator.” Think of C# Source generator as […]
.NET Compiler Platform, also known by its nickname Roslyn, is a set of open-source compilers and code analysis APIs for C# and Visual Basic .NET languages. The primary features of Roslyn are to provide compilers and APIs for code analysis and refactoring. There is a splendid must-read article about Roslyn entitled How Microsoft rewrote its […]
C# is awesome programming language. The C# team at Microsoft is adding new features with every new version of the language. And forthcoming version C# 9 is no exception. Among other nice features, there will also be a feature called Top-level statements. You can read more about proposal on this link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/proposals/csharp-9.0/top-level-statements. Furthermore, you can […]
What’s the point of this blog post? In modern C#/.NET ecosystem there is encouragement to use async/await Task based asynchronous model over other asynchronous patterns and approaches. On the other side, there are still a lot of libraries (legacy, wrappers from other technologies/languages which uses events for callback calls, etc…) which use older EAP approach […]
A little bit of background. Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances using short-wavelength UHF radio waves in the industrial, scientific and medical radio bands, from 2.402 GHz to 2.480 GHz, and building personal area networks. It was originally conceived as a wireless alternative to […]
In this blog post I will show how to remotely debug simple .NET Core console application running on Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu Linux. The purpose of this blog post is not to debug complex application, but to show step by step procedure how to perform remote debugging of .NET Core application. In other words, I […]
Entity Framework (EF) Core is a lightweight, extensible, open source and cross-platform version of Entity Framework data access technology. It’s rewritten version of Entity Framework Object-Relation-Mapper for .NET Core. It’s under .NET Foundation , hosted on GitHub, mainly developed by Microsoft, but totally open source. On short, you can use it everywhere: commercial apps, open […]
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with 4GB of RAM is really one very nice small device. In this blog post I will present how easy it is to use GPIO (general-purpose input/output) from .NET Core 3 and C# running on Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi4. I will show how to use Raspberry Pi4 GPIOs from .NET […]
To be honest, I have never believed that I will write about developing Mac applications with C#. Well, I am more or less hardcore C# & .NET developer so this post is (I guess) a bit out-of-my-course. Not so long ago, .NET developers were limited to develop applications strictly for Windows environment. But with .NET […]