As you might have read, Xamarin recently released the first of its Xcode 11 previews, which provide early access to in-progress Xamarin bindings for the new iOS and macOS SDKs. These are useful if you want to start working with new and updated framew…

It's no secret that a big fan of LINQPad. Though I originally started out using it for data manipulation and visualisation in a previous life, over time my LINQPad queries have become more and more sophisticated, with high levels of interactivity and…

Over the last month or two, Xamarin has run two challenges involving completing small tasks with upcoming Xamarin.Forms 4 features - the Visual Challenge and the CollectionView Challenge. As a relatively staunch "Xamarin Native" developer that finds …

As you may have read, the Xamarin team recently announced the release of a preview of the new Mono interpreter integrated with Xamarin.iOS. The new interpreter has been long anticipated - Miguel hinted at its revival on the Mono blog in late 2017 - a…

Nestled amongst the impressive number of announcements related to Xamarin made during Microsoft Connect was the anticipated GA of Xamarin.Essentials. Since Essentials is no longer in preview, I've also moved my interfaces autogeneration experiment ou…

Xamarin Essentials is a great recent initiative from the Xamarin team to provide an endorsed, comprehensive cross-platform set of APIs in a single package (read more about it on the docs page). One interesting aspect of the library is the lack of int…

There's a lot of exciting stuff going on lately when it comes to C# and the web, mostly thanks to the great work of the Mono team in bringing mono to WebAssembly and a few pioneers in the space, like Frank Krueger my secret idol and Steve Sanderson, …

While preparing for my recent talk on Visual Studio App Center, I realised that there were a couple of limitations in the current offering that would make it difficult to implement an upcoming requirement in one of my projects. Knowing that VSTS rece…

A tool that's probably already made it into your debugging flow when using Xamarin Studio is the 'Exception Catchpoint' feature. It functions in a manner roughly equivalent to the 'Exceptions' debug window in Visual Studio. An exception catchpoint is…

During the course of building an iOS app, at some point you're likely to need to hook into the NSNotificationCenter functionality. Not to be confused with the consumer-side Notification Center in iOS, it provides a pub/sub-like mechanism that you can…