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Introducing the “Byte-Sized Mobile Dev Tips” Video Series

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I’m happy to announce a new video series I’m making available on YouTube: “Byte-Sized Mobile Dev Tips.” In this series, I will share solutions to common problems and needed features that I’ve run into on different mobile app projects. I hope they will help you to solve them quickly and easily when you need them in your apps.
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Customizing ASP.NET Core’s Route Constraints and Model Binding

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I’m building a website using ASP.NET Core. The site serves the same content types, but with unique content, for different cities. The site also serves content that isn’t city-specific, like the site’s “About” and “Contact” pages, and its administrative interface.

URLs for city-specific content should include the city name for SEO benefits, as seen in these examples:

http://example.com/new-york-ny/news
http://example.com/los-angeles-ca/news

After exploring different ways to handle the city-specific content, I implemented the feature by customizing ASP.NET Core’s route constraints and model binding. Read on for an explanation and example code of how it works. [Read more…] about Customizing ASP.NET Core’s Route Constraints and Model Binding

“dotnet-ef” Not Found After EF Core 1.1 Update

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I’m building a website and API service using ASP.NET Core and EF Core with Visual Studio Code and the .NET Core CLI tooling on a Mac. I decided to try the recent 1.1 releases and ran into an unexpected headache: After updating, I get a No executable found matching command “dotnet-ef” result when I attempt to launch any EF core command, i.e., “dotnet ef –help”, in the terminal window.
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Xamarin Dev Days coming to Birmingham Sept. 30th

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DevDaysGreat news for local mobile app developers and anyone interested in becoming one: The Birmingham .NET Meetup organizers have made arrangements to bring Xamarin Dev Days to the Magic City! Xamarin Dev Days were created to give developers the opportunity to learn native mobile development for iOS, Android, and Windows from the ground up.
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Introducing XFGloss: Visual Gloss for Xamarin.Forms

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I’m happy to announce my new open source project is hitting the streets today! XFGloss is an add-on for Xamarin.Forms projects that adds new properties to the standard XF page and control classes on the Android and iOS platforms. Check out the story behind it or head on over to the GitHub repo or NuGet package and put some gloss on your Xamarin.Forms apps!

{dev = data} DAY Birmingham is THIS SATURDAY!

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Come out and enjoy a new free code camp style training event with a focus on Microsoft technologies Saturday, August 20, 2016 at Samford University. There are 25 sessions, all related to .NET development, SQL Server, PowerShell and Professional Development.

I will be presenting .NET Everywhere: Building C# Apps for Phones, Tablets and TVs. We’ll explore the latest developments in the .NET ecoysystem, including .NET Core, .NET Standard, Xamarin, MonoGame and more.

To learn more about the event and get tickets, visit devdataday.com. I hope to see you there!
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“Memory Management in Xamarin Apps” Series, Part Three

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In part 3 of this series, I explain how memory management is handled in the Xamarin world, what I consider to be myths surrounding memory management, and my initial conclusions after investigating the problems.

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