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This is a reimagined version of Troy Hunt’s Password Purgatory ; written as a dotnet app and automatically published to Azure.

Most of us are familiar with Dependabot and how it can open an Issue in your GitHub repo when there’s a pending dependency update or a security issue.

There has been a lot of news around generative AI and LLMs.

Say goodbye to managing PFX files and problems code signing your apps.

It’s been a while since I’ve written a new post.

This page contains quick links to resources, tips & tricks, documentation and anything helpful for you to build your apps.

When using .NET MAUI, we have some great capabilities to affect the way the native platform works.

Did you know you can deploy and debug your Android projects from Visual Studio 2022 (17.3+) to WSA (Windows Subsystem for Android)?

As you evolve as a developer, you start to venture into the world of CI-CD.

If you’re a fan of using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps, you might have had some trouble configuring builds for .NET MAUI.

One of the hallmarks of a professional workspace is an efficient workflow with powerful tools.

Here’s a visual walkthrough of the Windows 11 installation and initial desktop experience, with Dark Mode.

I’m honored to be chosen by Microsoft to be a Dev M.C. for Microsoft Build 2021!

As a part of my ongoing “Tools That I Use” series, I wanted to share another favorite, RichCopy 360 .

As a nice year-end present for us, he has done it again, visit Scott Hanselman’s 2021 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows .

In case you missed it, I spoke this year at DevReach 2020.

If you’re running Home assistant in Hyper-V, you’ve probably encountered a significant limitation… Hyper-V doesn’t let you pass-through a USB device, so you can’t use your Z-Wave dongle or zigbee dongle.

This post is a quick tutorial you can follow to get Home Assistant working on Hyper-V so you can take advantage of your PC’s compute power instead of running it on a Raspberry Pi.

I have stopped by the Unraid website several times, longing for those the features on offer… like Charlie looking into Willy Wonka’s front gates imagining the wonders that lay beyond.

I hope that you’ve landed here before spending hours/days trying to find a solution as to why you can’t forward the Home Assistant port in Docker.

My cat uses the human toilet.

You know that little indicator in a chat that shows if someone is currently typing?

There’s a new headache in town.

Preface - This is not Microsoft-provided information, just my guess after digging around the Microsoft.UI.Xaml source code after a conversation on Twitter.

[Update May 2020] This has been fixed in the 19041 SDK.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw your own pie chart just using lines and a list of data items.

There are many scenarios where a UI component might not have a Command or bindable property available for certain features that you need to access from the view model.

I have an open source UWP project that relies on the Ad SDK and Engagement SDK to be installed to Visual Studio.

Almost every developer I speak with agrees that getting a nicely working OAuth flow can be difficult.

My friends at Microsoft have put together an amazing compilation of resources of all the new stuff available in the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (aka RS5).

If you’re in the process of updating a Xamarin.Forms app to a more modern style project set up (NET Standard 2.0, PackageReference, etc), you may get the following error.

This post will walk you through setting up a Xamarin Platform Effect and show you how to wire up an event handler so you can leverage native APIs in the case that the Xamarin.Forms wrapper doesn’t yet have.

Your one-stop shop for Microsoft Build 2018 sessions, slide decks, post links, keynotes and much more.

If you’re a Xamarin Forms developer, you’ve likely used PCLStorage (or other Dependency Service) to interact with the target platform’s file system in the portable class library’s code.

[EDIT Updated to include ARM64] I was given the honor of having early access to Windows 10 on ARM (WoA) so that I could chronicle the experience and provide you with tips to ensure that your development experience is smooth.

Telerik UI for Xamarin comes with two themes out of the box, Default and Blue.

Microsoft has opened up the ability to have a 3D app launcher to all developers in the Fall Creator’s Update.

Did you just get a new Mixed Reality headset?

The upcoming Windows 10 update, the Fall Creator’s Update, introduces a new design system, Microsoft Fluent Design System .

I wanted to be able to have my office shades go up or down automatically, depending on the amount of light outside.

You know that bottom drawer on the Windows 10 navigation app where the upcoming turns are in a list?

I was given a Surface Dial the other day and I thought “what can I do with this to create a better experience for the user”.

Telerik has recently ported the RadImageEditor to Windows Universal (8.1 Universal right now, UWP is coming very soon).

I recently needed to send image data to a server for processing and thought I’d share how to do that using System.Net.Http.HttpClient in a UWP (Universal Windows) app.

One of the new features of DevCenter is the ability to generate Promotional Codes for your app.

Most people think of IoT (Internet of Things) as a collection of tiny brains, without user interfaces, collecting data.

One of the great things about the new DevCenter is the ability to generate Promotional codes for your in-app-purchase products, so I generated 100 codes last night for the launch of Windows 10.

With Windows 10 being rolled out as I write this article, there will be updated sample Windows Platform apps available soon (today).

I was recently involved in a conversation on how to have the easiest way to maintain a XAML view across a UWP (Universal Windows Project) a Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 projects.

I recently wanted to make a header with tabs for my app’s pages that have a Pivot.