Jon Goldberger

Debugging Xamarin Open Source Frameworks: Part 3 – Mono

April 4th, 2018

This is the third post of four in the Debugging Xamarin Open Source Frameworks series, debugging Mono. Part 1 covers building Xamarin.Forms from the source and debugging that code, Part 2 covers Xamarin.iOS, and Part 4 steps into the source code to build and debug Xamarin.Android. Debugging in Mono If you work with Xamarin to develop ...

Debugging Xamarin Open Source Frameworks: Part 2 – Xamarin.iOS

March 28th, 2018

This is the second part in a four-part series. In the first post, we covered building Xamarin.Forms from the source and then stepping into and debugging that code. In this post, we'll explore the same principles for Xamarin.iOS. Parts 3 and 4 will discuss Xamarin.Android and Mono, respectively. It's worth noting that as of 15.6, you do ...

Debugging Xamarin Open Source Frameworks: Part 1 – Xamarin.Forms

March 21st, 2018

At some point, while working with Xamarin to build awesome mobile apps, you may have received an exception or error notification from the Xamarin framework code, Mono runtime, or Base Class Library (BCL). If this happened, you may have stepped through that code to see if the error was in your code, or whether it was a bug in the framework...

Demystifying Build Configurations

June 13th, 2017

Most developers are familiar with the Debug and Release configurations in most solution templates in use. It seems obvious to use the Debug configuration when building your project for debugging and to use the Release configuration when building your project for release. What may be less clear, though, is what's actually happening when ...

Getting Started with Async / Await

March 13th, 2017

Async programming is all the rage in mobile app development for good reasons. Using async methods for long running tasks, like downloading data, helps keep your user interface responsive, while not using async methods, or the improper use of async/await, can cause your app's UI to stop responding to user input until the long-running task ...