Build Windows 10 UWP in the cloud
I’m working on a new Windows 10 UWP at the present and went to set up my CI builds in, of course, Visual Studio Online. But it wasn’t as straightforward as I’d hoped.
Category Archives: CodeProject
On Windows Store "crap apps"
Yes, Dear Reader, this actually happened. Now, I as much as the next dev will not beat around the bush when it comes to acknowledging there’s a problem with “crap apps” on the Windows (Phone) Store. But is there a platform that doesn’t have this problem? I doubt it. Shall we have a look? Yes.… Read More »
Application Insights in your WinForms? Yup!
Microsoft’s Application Insights is one hell of a tool. It was showcased a number of times throughout BUILD 2015 at the end of April and continues to make my jaw drop every time I see it shown off and look into my own instance of it. However, if you’re a Windows Desktop app developer (Forms,… Read More »
Serve up Debug Symbols for your NuGet packages? Heck yeah!
While playing around with NuGet as much as I have been, I noticed something in the ‘nuget pack’ command that I thought was pretty interesting. A ‘-symbols’ flag. “What’s this do?” I thought. So, naturally, I gave it a shot.
Visual Studio Online builds & external dependencies
As you’ve seen me post before, I use the Multilingual App Toolkit in my Upload to YouTube app to localize it in to many languages. Since MAT is an installed extension to Visual Studio (and msbuild), however, setting up Upload to YouTube for CI and Release builds done in my Visual Studio Online account ended… Read More »
Create your own hosted NuGet server in Azure
Some time ago I wrote about how you could create your own local (private) NuGet server by simply putting your .nupkg files out on a server share to which you had access. But there’s a better way still!
Auto-update your NuGet packages at build time
NuGet is great. So great, in fact, that I’ve set up my own NuGet server in Azure to use during my personal development to share Common projects, etc. It’s insanely nice as now I can do my builds using packages from other VSO projects without any hassle. But for my own personal development, and likely… Read More »
Windows 10’s dangerous update – KB3001512
I’m not the only one reporting this issue, but I’ve also become aware of a few users not having problems. So, I thought I’d just post this as a PSA to people running the new Technical Preview who may be having problems with Store apps and their UIs.
Get your own short url (and use it!)
Got a blog? Want to make yourself a bit more noticeable around the interwebs? What better way to do it than your own short url (a la bit.ly, j.mp, goo.gl, etc) ** Note: If you’re not familiar with domain purchasing, hosting, and nameservers, this might get over your head. So read up on that first.
Removing Ads with an IAP – the Declarative way
Microsoft’s XAML provides a way for us to define our UI in a declarative manner. Combined with databinding it means you should – in almost every case – never have to directly reference a UI control to accomplish some work. Add the MVVM design pattern in to the mix and I find myself “rethinking” any… Read More »