Using Private NuGet Feeds with .NET MAUI and Azure Pipelines
As you may already know, there’s no App Center support for .NET MAUI yet (and possibly won’t be). Trailhead is using Azure Pipelines for many of our projects, including for generating our mobile builds and distributing them to the app stores (Apple and Android). One of the challenges when you do this is bringing in […]
Securing Your Software Supply Chain
The Problem The principle of code reuse is a foundational axiom of software development. This best practice has manifested itself, in part, in the form of centralized package repositories like Nuget and NPM from which developers can access an entire Internet’s worth of libraries to supplement their code. But when using someone else’s code like […]
Using Private NuGet Feeds in AppCenter
The Problem Recently, I was working on a Xamarin.Forms project consuming a private NuGet feed. Because the account I use to log in to Visual Studio has permissions to consume that feed, I just added the feed address to Visual Studio and I could use it without any problems. But when I tried to build […]
HealthKit Not Working in the Background of Xamarin.Forms Anymore—What To Do!
I recently updated the Nuget packages of an Xamarin.Forms application which accesses health and physical activity data in iOS and has been doing it successfully for a long time. One of the libraries to update was the third-party library responsible for taking the data from HealthKit and preparing it to be sent to the server. […]
Create Beautiful .NET Console Applications with Spectre.Console
Ugly Console Applications On several occasions, I have had to create console applications that update the screen as time passes or some background task progresses. When I do, I often end up with something that looks like the following screenshot: This works just fine but can certainly be improved. We can reformat the data better […]
What is .NET Standard & Does it Relate to .NET Core?
When I talk to .NET developers, I find that there’s still a lot of confusion about what .NET Standard is and how it relates to .NET Core. In fact, this weekend I’ll be giving a talk at the Music City Tech conference in Nashville, Tennessee about just that. I thought I’d share some of the […]