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  • Mobile Essentials: Productivity Tools for Mobile Developers

    Posted on November 21, 2014

    A bunch of mobile development and tooling enthusiasts here at the office wanted to put out some tools, templates and general productivity enhancements for mobile developers, so we decided to set up a custom Visual Studio gallery that you can set up to get these tools in an integrated fashion in the Extensions and Updates dialog (a.k.a. Extension Manager). These will generally be projects we work on the side, on weekends and nights and hackathons. [Read More]
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  • Automating GitHub: Introducing OctoHooks

    Posted on November 2, 2014

    GitHub is an awesome platform for hosting your source code, and the issue tracker is pretty decent. Some might argue that it’s too simplistic and that larger projects require more features and customization, but I’ll beg to differ, and show you how you can tune it to your heart’s content by leveraging its comprehensive API, and do so even without writing a single line of code ;) [Read More]

  • Smarter Project References

    Posted on August 24, 2014

    Sometimes the simple act of adding a project or assembly reference results in multiple subsequent attempts to fix the build because of the myriad indirect references that those depend on in turn, and which you are forced to add. Some other times, you just wish you were able to remove all those external projects that clutter the solution and slow down VS, but you need the project references for those tough debugging times. Welcome to Smarter Project References! [Read More]
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  • Project dependency does not build with Xamarin

    Posted on June 10, 2014

    It’s not at all uncommon to face this error while working with Xamarin iOS projects. The scenario shown in the screenshot is fairly typical: a multi-platform solution with one or more shared portable libraries and one app project for each target platform, in this case iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8.0. In theses cases, when you select iPhone or iPhoneSimulator as the platform, suddendly, Visual Studio seems to “forget” to build the shared library, and just fails with a less than helpful “Metadata [dependency project dll] could not be found”. [Read More]
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  • Joining Xamarin

    Posted on May 28, 2014

    My next big adventure: helping to build the best mobile development ever, inside Visual Studio! [Read More]

  • Beyond Open Source

    Posted on August 12, 2013

    At the end of my previous post I talked about how we could go beyond “just” open source for Moq Rebirth. The basic idea was to document the creation process by having a Google+ Live Hangout, so that any number of attendees can join, but also to automatically keep a public recording of it automatically on YouTube. [Read More]
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  • Moq Rebirth

    Posted on July 9, 2013

    Moq has been around for quite a few years now (an amazing 4.5 years to be precise). A lot has happened in that time, Moq itself progressed a lot, but more importantly IMHO, there are more choices now, and most of them open source too. [Read More]
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