Pedro Lamas is a Portuguese software development consultant in London, specializing in Microsoft and Windows development, sharing insights on .NET, Xamarin, open source, and modern Windows technologies.
84 articles from this blog
A developer shares their experience becoming a Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer through Xamarin University, recommending it for .NET and C# developers.
Microsoft officially ends support for Windows Phone 8.1, marking the final chapter for the mobile OS, with reflections on its history and demise.
Cimbalino Toolkit 2.5.0 released, now targeting .NET Standard 1.0 for cross-platform compatibility and featuring other improvements.
Explains how to properly retrieve the current culture in UWP apps using a non-hacky method based on .NET Core Runtime internals.
Guide to creating custom build configurations (beyond Debug/Release) for .NET Core projects using MSBuild scripts.
Explains how to use Deferred Events to make async event handlers awaitable, allowing the invoker to wait for all handlers to complete.
How to set a custom User-Agent string for all requests in a UWP WebView control using a Win32 API.
A developer details migrating their blog from WordPress to Jekyll and GitHub Pages after hosting issues, highlighting the benefits of static site generation.
Developer shares personal achievement of receiving the 2017 Microsoft MVP Award for Windows Development and thanks the community.
Explains a UWP bug where AdaptiveTriggers fail if a control's name matches a VisualState name, with code examples and a workaround.
Cimbalino Toolkit 2.4.0 released for UWP, featuring new controls, converters, and navigation service improvements.
Guide to correctly rotate the Raspberry Pi 7" touch display and touch targets when running Windows 10 IoT Core by editing the config.txt file.
Cimbalino Toolkit 2.2.1 update adds Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 support, a new controls library, and a file picker service.
Introduces new Hamburger-style UI controls for Windows Universal Apps in the Cimbalino Toolkit, including HamburgerFrame, HamburgerTitleBar, and HamburgerMenuButton.
A discussion on the historical use and modern challenges of strong-naming .NET assemblies, advocating against the practice in 2016.
XAML Behaviors for UWP updated to version 1.1.0, featuring bug fixes and a change to strong-name signing.
Explains a subtle async/await issue with CoreDispatcher.RunAsync in UWP and provides a solution using TaskCompletionSource.
Discusses a bug in XAML Compiled Bindings when using null fallback values, with code examples and a warning for developers.
A developer's troubleshooting guide for fixing MissingMetadataException errors in UWP apps when using .NET Native compilation with reflection.
XAML Behaviors are now open source on GitHub and available for UWP apps, with updates to the Cimbalino Toolkit to support them.
