Tag Archives: C#

SaturdayMP Show 57: Something’s Rotten at the Gilded Rose: A Refactoring Tale

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Chris C

In this episode I tackle the famous Gilded Rose refactoring kata as practice for my upcoming Edmonton .NET User Group (EDMUG) presentation. One of the great things about the Gilded Rose kata is the different ways to “solve” it. What … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned About GitHub’s Dependabot

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Chris C

Recently I created a CI build for the Introduction to ORM for DBAs presentation example code. One of the reasons I picked this code base was so I could try out Dependabot for the security alerts I’m getting. The security … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned How to Create a Xamarin iOS Binding for Objective-C Libraries – Part 4 The Actual Binding

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Chris C

This is the 4th and final part about incorporating an objective-c library in Xamarin.  In my case I’m binding BEMCheckBox.  In part 3 we used Sharpie to create a C# interface for the BEMCheckBox.  In this post we will show … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned How to Create a Xamarin iOS Binding for Objective-C Libraries – Part 3 Using Sharpie to Create Binding Interface

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Chris C

This is the 3rd part about using the BEMCheckBox, an Objective-C library, in Xamarin.  Part 1 described how to compile the BEMCheckBox library using Xcode.  Part 2 showed how to combine the multiple libraries we compiled from Part 1 into … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned How to Handle Local Notifications in Xamarin on Android

Posted on June 21, 2017 by Chris C

In my previous example I detailed how to schedule notifications in Xamarin on Android but didn’t show the Xamarin Forms application reacting to that specific notification.  Let’s fix that. First override the OnNewIntent method in the MainActivity.  We override this method so notifications will … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned How To Create Xamarin iOS and Android Unit Tests

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Chris C

I’m currently working on a notification plugin for Xamarin Forms and wanted to setup some unit tests.  The problem is my code accesses the device-specific notification systems in iOS and Android.  This means I can’t just run my unit tests … Continue reading →

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