Umbraco 9 is the new release of Umbraco and it uses .NET 5 rather than .Net Framework 4.x, and as such, most of the coding Behind the scenes has changes quite a bit, this means that you'll most likely... - read more.
14 Mar 2022If you find yourself populating the configuration object of .NET Core using the GetSection.Get method and all of your properties have been set to null or the default value, then this quick tip may save your hours. - read more.
5 Aug 2021How to quickly change an Umbraco API Controller to always return response as JSON. - read more.
8 May 2020Xamarin Forms has become for me, a great tool for easily creative mobile applications with speed. But where it has many great features, it also unfortunately still has a lot of bugs and incomplete or experimental features. CarouselView is one of them, so lets look at possible uses for the CarouselView, its upsides and its downfalls. We'll also look into possible alternatives and whether you should use them or not. - read more.
29 Jul 2019Just a quick tutorial on how to get Firebase Cloud Messaging working on Xamarin Forms for both Android and iOS. Android: text See http://lukealderton.com/blog/posts/2017/january/systemtypeloadexceptio... - read more.
1 May 2019When you're working with a large database and have to search that result set with paging, your first thought might be to select all results and then do the manipulation/count on the web server, sure that'd work, but it isn't exactly the most performant approach. Let's take a look at other ways we can produce some easily understood and most importantly, fast code. - read more.
27 Mar 2019Looking into the solution for the Xamarin bug where developers are presented with the 'Unhandled Exception: Java.Lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.support.v7.widget.ContentFrameLayout.setId(int)' on a null object reference occurred' message when deploying an app to their device. - read more.
11 Mar 2019It seems like most pages when you Google for getting the current member or a member by id in Umbraco seem to be from back in 2010 or 2012, well things have changed since the businesslogic days and we're now in the world of Umbraco Services, how do we use them? Solved! - read more.
20 Jul 2018 - 1 CommentsIt's taken a while, but I've finally put a little 16x2 LCD screen on my biped robot to display messages such as warnings, system temperature and error logs. It uses Pi4J and And before you say... Yes, I'm still working on it years later. - read more.
5 Jun 2018If like me, you've found yourself with a project that requires operations on hundreds of records simultaneously from a web project, you might have found yourself running a SQL insert/update/delete command for every one, but with the use of a C# DataTable, you'll be able to perform an action on all items with one command. - read more.
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