I recently encountered an intriguing issue with EF Core migrations that I hadn’t seen before — suddenly getting exceptions when trying to create or apply migrations. Interestingly, the migrations w...
Book review: The Phoenix Project
The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford has been out for about 10 years now, and most people I’ve spoken to about it have read it. I, however, have just gotten around to re...
Testing Sign-in with Apple in your local development environment
Sign-in with Apple is a great way to authenticate users in your web and mobile apps. Apple get a lot right about single sign-on (SSO), and while some people remain apprehensive about tying their id...
Where to put your .NET MAUI Handler Mappings
NOTE This post is adapted from my book .NET MAUI in Action, available now! In .NET MAUI, the handler architecture provides a way for developers to access properties of native platform controls...
.NET MAUI UI July - 2023!
#MAUIUIJuly is back! 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 enthusiasm a...
Deploying your .NET MAUI apps to production - Part 3: Windows
This post is part three of a three part series: Part 1: Android Part 2: iOS Part 3: Windows (this post) In part one of this series, we saw how to build, sign and deploy Android apps built...
Deploying your .NET MAUI apps to production - Part 2: iOS
This post is part two of a three part series: Part 1: Android Part 2: iOS (this post) Part 3: Windows In part one of this series, we saw how to build, sign and deploy Android apps built w...
Deploying your .NET MAUI apps to production - Part 1: Android
This post is part one of a three part series: Part 1: Android (this post) Part 2: iOS Part 3: Windows Building apps is fun, but sadly very few people get paid to build apps just for fun; ...
.NET MAUI UI July: Outlook Clone
This post is an excerpt from my upcoming book .NET MAUI in Action. The book is available now in early access, so you can sign up now to get more content like this as it becomes available. And use ...
Introducing .NET MAUI UI July
Back in 2019, Steven Thewissen gave us the awesome Xamarin UI July. Steven described it as an advent calendar, where each day throughout the month you would have a new insightful Xamarin UI blog po...