Our beloved Xamarin was sunset a while ago, and MAUI is now stable enough to start building production apps with it. As you may know from my blogās history, Iāve been a long-time mobile developer, who’s worked with Xamarin, Flutter, MAUI, and I built this Xamarin.Forms chat app 5 years ago to showcase how to […]
My favorite framework, dotnet has a new version released every year. Before the final release is out, I went through each preview version and selected the 5 New ASP net core features in dotnet 8 You’ll Love this Year in no particular order. The next version will be released in a few months and several […]
Why will you want to impersonate a user? Isn’t it a bad thing to do? when should it be used? Let’s say you have a user of your system, this user faces an issue or a bug he/she desperately tries to explain but you just can’t understand what he is explaining. Wouldn’t it be good […]
Validation is an important part of APIs. When using a clean architecture, or another modern application design pattern, most often we leverage CQRSā commands for actions like POST, PUT, etc. These commands have side effects. While those without side effects like GET requests are implemented in queries. Commands most often need some sort of asynchronous […]
This is a short article with a solution to a problem I couldnāt find on the internet. I upgraded VS for Mac to version 17.4.5 recently, and upgraded Xcode to the appropriate version as stated in the docs (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/mac-release-notes). As it happens often, I had a bad surprise after this. I tried uploading an app […]
This is my first article of 2023. I think it is the first in a series of articles about migrating an old ASP.net web app to Asp.net core on dotnet 7. Today, we will talk about migrating Old ASP.net authentication to Asp.net core identity with open id connect. Recently, Iāve had to work on the […]
Messaging services like WhatsApp keep bragging about end-to-end encryption (E2EE) telling us how it keeps our data safe even if messages we send are intercepted by a third party. Have you ever wondered how this works? how come they are able to secure our messages over the internet ? Well, I’ve asked myself those questions […]
Hey everyone! Here is a new article under my series of Quick Tips posts. What is this series of posts about? (I hope you asked yourself āŗļø). Well, you know when you want to implement a functionality or do something technical that is well documented, but the documentation for that specific thing is not centralized? […]
Hello friends, today we will talk about a performance issue that does not only affect mobile apps but other types of Dotnet client applications too. That is, HTTP request performance. Making HTTP requests is something we should do cautiously because it consumes a lot of resources that are difficult to release later. This can impact […]
Hello Everyone. As a mobile dev, you might have come across a situation where you needed to add Country information in your app. As allowing the user to select a given country, or a specific region in that country. I’m sure while thinking about it, the first thing that comes to your mind is tapping […]
