DeepClean is a must have Visual Studio extension for macOS
December 28, 2017
iOS Team Lead | Former Microsoft MVP
December 28, 2017
December 27, 2017
Recently had to update some old Xamarin.Forms project to the latest and greatest XF and very quickly I realised that it is not going to be an easy task, since I had to manually manipulate the csproj files to remove the old nuget dependencies. I found myself going thru multiple projects multiple times in order to delete the “bin”, “obj” & “packages” directories to fix the miscellaneous build errors and I came up with a very simple script to recursively delete delete the “bin”, “obj” & “packages” directories:
December 12, 2017
Recently I updated my macOS to High Sierra however this broke my android emulators. Non of them started and logs showed something like:
December 7, 2017
Using a wildcard while building a View can be very convenient if you have to return all the columns from a table:
November 14, 2017
Xamarin components are easy to install, all you have to do is to download a zip, extract the content and to reference the dlls in your project. This would work if you download the component manually from components gallery. Same thing can be done using Visual Studio in a more robust way via ‘Components’ under the targeting platform projects. Either way, the component will be downloaded and installed only for a specific project.
November 12, 2017
Just discovered a hidden tool inside visual studio 2015. Many times I have to compare different files to see the diff. So far all the solutions were outside the IDE, but not anymore.