Following the recent release of Google Home in Swedish, I have been exploring how speech recognition in Swedish can be leveraged in various applications. In September 2016, Google acquired a…
I recently read a blog post about using shims to unit test without interfaces. It looks really compelling, so I thought I'd explore some ways to create testable code to…
If you go to Xamarin home page it will tell you that there are two types of Xamarin, native and forms. Native is for full pledge down to the metal apps for…
All controls in UWP has the Loading and Loaded event. They are called when the view is about to show on screen. One would believe that Loading always comes before…
Build has now come to a close, and some exciting new things were shown. It definitely feels like a new Microsoft when compared to a few years ago. A lot more…
When adding the Microsoft.ProjectOxford.Emotion nuget package to a Xamarin iOS project on Visual Studio for Mac you might encounter the following error: Install-Package Microsoft.ProjectOxford.Emotion [...] Could not install package 'Microsoft.Bcl.Build 1.0.14'.…
I recently did a tech talk and lab session at our latest internal conference here at Jayway and would like to share a summary of its context here in a blog…
Since its initial conception, one of the core philosophies in ASP.NET Web API has been to provide extension hooks for anything and everything - error handling is no exception (sorry…).…
This is a follow up post on Getting started with .NET on Linux. In this post I'll explore the new cross-platform .NET framework to see if it's possible to develop…
Recently I faced a scenario where I needed to know if the user had internet connection or not. The application is running on Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 and…
This blog post will explain how to use self signed certificates with a Windows Azure cloud service and how to configure the Azure IIS server by code in the web…
Blend and the visual designer in Visual Studio is relying on the content first principle. Therefor will most of the UI Elements be invisible when we data bind them to…
This post will show you how to share XAML and localization in Universal Windows 8.1 apps, with a twist. The extra spice in this example is that we have two…
Why would one want to use C++ when developing modern applications for Windows? A lot of developers see C++ as an old, aging, clumsy giant. Why program using C++ when…
I'm now assuming that you read my previous post about how to create self signed certificates for development and it might’ve left you thinking “Yay great! ….But how do I…