Fridathon: unstructured learning or hacking you can opt-in to do on any random Friday.

• How to access project reference metadata from WiX project in MSBuild

  Posted on July 18, 2015

  Accessing project references metadata, such as the typical $(var.MyCustomAction.TargetDir) is pretty common from WiX fragments. Here's how to do the same from MSBuild [Read More]

  Tags:

  • msbuild
  • wix

• Bite-sized reusable MSBuild targets, properties and tasks

  Posted on July 18, 2015

  I’m a long-time MSBuild fan. Now that it’s open source, I’ve even played with bootstrapping it with xbuild to use it even on Mac. It works like a charm, for the most part :) [Read More]

  Tags:

  • msbuild
  • nuget

• How to use symlinks with MSBuild

  Posted on May 25, 2015

  Symlinks are very useful. This post shows how to leverage them for conditional processing using MSBuild item groups. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • msbuild

• Dynamic Xamarin Forms From XAML and JSON

  Posted on May 25, 2015

  Yes, I’m well aware that the official API set for Xamarin.Forms only allows loading the compiled XAML into its “owning” view, using the LoadFromXaml<TView>(this TView view, Type callingType) extension method from the Xamarin.Forms.Xaml.Extensions class. And this is of course the actual real and supported way of doing it (for whatever reason, I’m not part of the Xamarin.Forms team :)). [Read More]

  Tags:

  • xamarin
  • forms

• Bootstrapping Cross Platform MSBuild with XBuild and NuGet

  Posted on May 17, 2015

  Now that MSBuild is open source and cross-platform, you easily bootstrap it via XBuild and NuGet to build on a Mac/*nix too. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • msbuild
  • xbuild
  • nuget

• Ultimate Cross Platform NuGet Restore

  Posted on December 30, 2014

  If you just want the straight solution, download the targets file alongside your .sln and name it Before.[solution file name].targets. Now just build from either IDEs or command lines :). [Read More]

  Tags:

  • msbuild
  • xbuild
  • nuget
  • xamarin

• Open Source Oslo M

  Posted on December 2, 2014

  For those of you on the cutting edge of Microsoft technologies that don’t ship ;), you probably have fond memories of one particular product that had so much promise: Olso “M”. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • oss

• Mobile Essentials: Productivity Tools for Mobile Developers

  Posted on November 21, 2014

  A bunch of mobile development and tooling enthusiasts here at the office wanted to put out some tools, templates and general productivity enhancements for mobile developers, so we decided to set up a custom Visual Studio gallery that you can set up to get these tools in an integrated fashion in the Extensions and Updates dialog (a.k.a. Extension Manager). These will generally be projects we work on the side, on weekends and nights and hackathons. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • mobile
  • xamarin

• Installing Xamarin for Visual Studio 2015 Preview

  Posted on November 17, 2014

  If you currently have a previous version of Xamarin installed, you may not get the 2015 bits automatically when installing the new alpha for VS2015 Preview. Here's how to ensure it's properly installed. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • xamarin

• Automating GitHub: Introducing OctoHooks

  Posted on November 2, 2014

  GitHub is an awesome platform for hosting your source code, and the issue tracker is pretty decent. Some might argue that it’s too simplistic and that larger projects require more features and customization, but I’ll beg to differ, and show you how you can tune it to your heart’s content by leveraging its comprehensive API, and do so even without writing a single line of code ;) [Read More]

• Newer Posts
• Older Posts