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• How Visual Studio builds on the Mac with Xamarin

  Posted on November 23, 2015

  When we started working for Xamarin as consultants, a couple years ago, it was nothing short of amazing for us that Xamarin had already achieved a pretty solid “F5 experience” with an app building on the Mac and debugging like any regular local .NET app. I had the same feeling the first time I did the same thing against an Azure website. Felt like magic (in the Arthur C. Clark way). [Read More]

  Tags:

  • msbuild
  • xbuild
  • xamarin
  • ios

• Sharing assembly-level context across unit tests

  Posted on October 8, 2015

  How to achieve per-assembly fixture state sharing for xunit tests [Read More]

  Tags:

  • xunit
  • tdd
  • testing

• How to disable Xamarin Forms XAML Intellisense in VS 2015

  Posted on August 14, 2015

  Straight answer first just in case you’re in a hurry: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • xamarin
  • forms

• How to access project reference metadata from WiX project in MSBuild

  Posted on July 18, 2015

  Accessing project references metadata, such as the typical $(var.MyCustomAction.TargetDir) is pretty common from WiX fragments. Here's how to do the same from MSBuild [Read More]

  Tags:

  • msbuild
  • wix

• Bite-sized reusable MSBuild targets, properties and tasks

  Posted on July 18, 2015

  I’m a long-time MSBuild fan. Now that it’s open source, I’ve even played with bootstrapping it with xbuild to use it even on Mac. It works like a charm, for the most part :) [Read More]

  Tags:

  • msbuild
  • nuget

• How to use symlinks with MSBuild

  Posted on May 25, 2015

  Symlinks are very useful. This post shows how to leverage them for conditional processing using MSBuild item groups. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • msbuild

• Dynamic Xamarin Forms From XAML and JSON

  Posted on May 25, 2015

  Yes, I’m well aware that the official API set for Xamarin.Forms only allows loading the compiled XAML into its “owning” view, using the LoadFromXaml<TView>(this TView view, Type callingType) extension method from the Xamarin.Forms.Xaml.Extensions class. And this is of course the actual real and supported way of doing it (for whatever reason, I’m not part of the Xamarin.Forms team :)). [Read More]

  Tags:

  • xamarin
  • forms

• Bootstrapping Cross Platform MSBuild with XBuild and NuGet

  Posted on May 17, 2015

  Now that MSBuild is open source and cross-platform, you easily bootstrap it via XBuild and NuGet to build on a Mac/*nix too. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • msbuild
  • xbuild
  • nuget

• Ultimate Cross Platform NuGet Restore

  Posted on December 30, 2014

  If you just want the straight solution, download the targets file alongside your .sln and name it Before.[solution file name].targets. Now just build from either IDEs or command lines :). [Read More]

  Tags:

  • msbuild
  • xbuild
  • nuget
  • xamarin

• Open Source Oslo M

  Posted on December 2, 2014

  For those of you on the cutting edge of Microsoft technologies that don’t ship ;), you probably have fond memories of one particular product that had so much promise: Olso “M”. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • oss

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