In this article I will explain how to use cloud solutions to provide endpoints for autocomplete feature in serverless applications. First of all you will have to create free accounts on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web […]
Nowadays most applications require internet access. Usually we need a backend to provide content, store data or to share information between multiple users. However, if you work on a small personal project, most likely you […]
In this article I will show you how to implement an attached property for Xamarin.Forms.TableView to add support for bindable sections. It’s very useful when you want to keep your logic clean in ViewModel and […]
In order to provide support for bluetooth background mode, you need to add UIBackgroundModes key in info.plist file with array value containing one of the following strings: bluetooth-central – if your application connects to BLE devices, bluetooth-peripheral – if […]
iOS provides a library called CoreBluetooth which allows to communicate with BLE devices. It hides many low level operations, therefore we don’t have to worry about protocol specification. However, we need to get familiar with some new terms related with […]
While creating Xamarin.Forms applications, definitely you are going to need TapGestureRecognizer often. Implementing it in XAML many times may end up with a lot of unnecessary code. Let’s take a look at that simple clickable Image: This […]
Each counter has its own category and name (sometimes also an instance name). To read performance data, we can create an instance like this: var counter = new PerformanceCounter(“IPv4”, “Datagrams/sec”); Unfortunately those names in parameters depend on […]
To get information about supported IP versions by the network adapter, we need to go through assigned IP addresses and check their types. In WinRT there is GetHostNames(), which gets a list of host names associated with the […]
Sometimes we need to prepare a single file application, but what if we want to split a code into DLLs or use 3rd party libraries? Fortunately .NET provides an event AssemblyResolve, which allows us to resolve them manually. In this […]
There are many reasons why running an application from memory may be useful. For example your machine might have white-listed applications or you might want to gain some security by deploying encrypted software, which can be […]