If you’re building .NET Aspire projects on Windows, you might be getting frustrated with the performance of your Docker containers. As a cross-platform developer, I switch between Windows and macOS...
Cosmic Aspirations: A Workaround for the Cosmos DB Emulator Explorer in Aspire
If you’ve been struggling to get the Cosmos DB Emulator’s Explorer Dashboard working in Aspire, hopefully this will help. Recently, I encountered a frustrating issue where the dashboard refused to ...
PageResolver Updates – The Missing Piece of .NET MAUI, Now Ready for .NET 9!
Introduction With the launch of .NET 9, now is the perfect time to introduce the latest improvements to PageResolver! While it’s aligned with .NET LTS releases, PageResolver remains fully compatib...
Passthrough Behavior: Attaching things where they don't belong
Introduction I spent some time over the last year helping TrashMob build their mobile app. TrashMob is an initiative designed to allow people to self-organise community cleanup events - it’s a won...
Parallax CollectionView in .NET MAUI
Parallax is one of those effects that is dangerously easy to overuse in your apps, but equally, when done right, can add an extra “wow!” factor that elevates an otherwise flat app to give it some d...
.NET MAUI UI July - 2024
It’s time for #MAUIUIJuly again! Based on an idea originally started for Xamarin by Steven Thewissen, MAUI UI July is a month-long, community-driven event where anyone gets to share some of their ...
The Status Quo Bias and Overcorrection
In my last post I discussed cognitive biases in decision making and introduced the concept of the platinum hammer. An extension of the well-known golden hammer, the platinum hammer is a predilectio...
The Right Tool for the Job: Beyond the Golden Hammer
Introduction to cognitive biases in decision making Most of us aim to use the right tool for the job, navigating the balance between tried and trusted methods and the allure of new solutions. This...
Orientation state changes on iPad in .NET MAUI
Recently I’ve been looking at building .NET MAUI apps that give first-class experiences on mobile, desktop, and tablets. It’s important for desktop users to feel like they’re using a desktop app, r...
Differentiating device idiom dependencies in .NET MAUI
While working on my upcoming hands-on .NET MAUI workshop for NDC (note - link will probably not work after the conference), I was thinking about different layouts for desktop, tablet, and mobile ap...