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Monitor your Xamarin Forms application with Mobile Center

August 11, 2017 Aug 11, 2017 08/11/17
Pam Lahoud
This article on using Mobile Center to monitor your Xamarin Forms application comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Gustavo Varo. More and more customers are asking about Mobile Center and how it can help them to monitor and analyze the customer experience. A lot of customers mentioned that they know about Mobile Center, they ...

Defining ASP.NET Core Controller action constraint to match the correct action

June 5, 2017 Jun 5, 2017 06/5/17
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When developing Web Api controllers many times we have situations where we need to define similar arguments in different methods. For example, a controller that has 2 methods that query users either by last name or date of birth. The name of the method is different but they both will receive a single argument of type string. When the routing engine can’t determine which action method it should call, a status code of 500 is returned.

Debugging .NET core with SOS everywhere

May 2, 2017 May 2, 2017 05/2/17
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Get some insight into debugging .NET code on non-Windows operating systems with this post from Premier Developer consultants Gustavo Varo and Ben Williams. I have been working more and more with .NET Core and one question I keep getting from our customers and partners is about the debugging experience when using operating systems other ...

Referencing a PCL project in both ASP.NET Core and Xamarin Forms

October 3, 2016 Oct 3, 2016 10/3/16
Pam Lahoud
Thanks to Premier Developer Consultant Gustavo Varo for this prescriptive guidance on cross-platform development with Xamarin and ASP.NET Core. Back in March while working with Xamarin Forms and ASP.NET Core, I identified the need of sharing some code between both projects. My very first idea was to create a PCL (Portable Class Library) ...