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Gerald Versluis

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He/Him | Engineer @Microsoft (.NET MAUI team) | content creator () | speaker | gamer | .NET MAUI, Blazor, C# | Tweets & opinions my own

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Joined April 2009
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@jfversluis
Gerald Versluis
2 years
Be a .NET frontend developer with Blazor. No JavaScript required ๐Ÿ˜Œ
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2 years
After months of hard work we finally merged it: the MediaElement for .NET MAUI! With this control you can now play audio and video using .NET MAUI on iOS/macOS, Android, Windows and Tizen
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2 years
Brace yourself! .NET MAUI GA is coming ๐Ÿ™€
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
๐Ÿคฉ Marvelous .NET MAUI is not a lie with this project! This is a fully functional app with all the amazing features you would expect from a modern day app, all built with .NET MAUI and open-sourced for you to learn from! Let's have a look ๐Ÿ‘€
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Gerald Versluis
5 years
So uh... Am I late for this #HitRefresh thing? Extremely proud to announce that I will be joining @Microsoft as of next month! It will probably be no surprise to anyone I'll be on the #XamarinForms team ๐Ÿ˜Š #MVPBuzz #NoMoreMVPBuzz #BlueBadge
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Whoa! A complete ebook on .NET MAUI! 93 pages filled with all kinds of things you need to know and hands-on examples that you can start implementing right now. Get it now FOR FREE! on and definitely let me know what you think! Should we start a book club?
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
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Gerald Versluis
3 months
Big day today! I got to push the button for archiving Xamarin.Forms ๐Ÿฅน
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maddy montaquila
3 months
this is the face of a man who is about to push a big red button @jfversluis !!! end of an era โค๏ธ
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Did anyone say .NET MAUI Maps?
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
I just published this Learn .NET MAUI GitHub repo! I found myself scrambling for links each time when I wanted to give someone a list of resources to start with, so I decided to build a public list so anyone and everyone can benefit. Enjoy!
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Hooray finally got my official Visual Studio 25th anniversary LEGO set! ๐Ÿฅฐ
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Would you believe this is a .NET MAUI application? ๐Ÿ˜‚ @jmparent_dev just submitted this for the .NET MAUI Beautiful UI challenge to @snpptsdev
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Gerald Versluis
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Today 4 years ago I joined Microsoft ๐ŸŽ‰ Woohoo! Little did I know what was in store for me. It has been an amazing ride so far, and I'm not done yet ๐Ÿ˜ Seem that time really does fly when you're having a blast! Thanks to everyone who has been a part of this amazing journey ๐Ÿซถ
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Are you about to spend precious money on materials to learn .NET MAUI?! ๐Ÿ’ธ โœ‹ STOP! Here are 7 resources that will get you started with learning .NET MAUI for absolutely free! ๐Ÿงต
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Boom Visual Studio 2022 17.3 with .NET MAUI support now stable #dotnetconf
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
Looks like Santa @EngstromJimmy came early this year! But what on earth do I do with 4 copiesโ€ฆ? ๐Ÿ˜ Time to spread some of that Blazor love!
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Barcode scanning and generating in .NET MAUI anyone? ๐Ÿ˜Œ
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Oh look what happened here ๐Ÿ‘€ .NET MAUI Maps confirmed!
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
An official .NET MAUI extension for VS Code has just been launched. You can now develop your .NET MAUI apps with VS Code on Windows, macOS and Linux! Check this out! ๐Ÿคฏ
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Remember @Bijington 's session at .NET Conf focus on .NET MAUI where he played his amazing drawing game with @jamesmontemagno all built with .NET MAUI and SignalR? Decided to have a little fun and hook it up to a Blazor web client as well! Special guest appearance of Box Face!
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Let's launch this thing! Here is the first part of the .NET MAUI Crash Course. I will post 2 parts every week and you should be able to learn .NET MAUI before it's released! In this first video I will introduce you to .NET MAUI! Have fun!
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
This was me during the holidays.
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
Windows App SDK 1.3 Preview 1 is out which has support for amazing backdrops. I just had to try how easy it was to use this with .NET MAUI... Well, 2 minutes of coding and here you can see a .NET MAUI app on Windows with a DesktopAcrylicBackdrop!
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
Reminder: don't forget to merge those git branches often!
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
It took some time but this video is the first to hit 100k views on YouTube! 100.000! ๐Ÿคฏ And it has nothing to do with .NET MAUI ๐Ÿ˜‚ It's all about dependency injection! Maybe I should broaden my scope a little bit ๐Ÿค”, what do you think? What would you like to see?
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Gerald Versluis
4 years
Today I can proudly introduce to you the Microsoft.Toolkit.Xamarin.Forms package for #XamarinForms ! In this post you will read all about this package, also known as #XamarinCommunityToolkit . First pre-release on #NuGet now, go check it out!
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
I hate programming ๐Ÿ˜ค I hate programming ๐Ÿ˜ซ I hate programming ๐Ÿคฌ Oh its working! ๐Ÿฅณ I love programming ๐Ÿค“
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Has anyone been waiting for MediaElement to come to .NET MAUI by any chance? We've been working hard to get it to the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit and hoping to have a first preview for you to test soon! ๐Ÿ‘€
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
Time to make my laptop ready for .NET MAUIโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ„โ€โ™‚๏ธ
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
One of the many perks of being Dutch; unlimited access to stroopwafels ๐Ÿคค
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
@lovelacecoding Got mine off since โ€˜99
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
I've got the video on signing your .NET MAUI iOS app ready, takes 27(!) minutes to take you through all the steps ๐Ÿ˜…
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
You're telling me it doesn't work this way?
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Looking for something to do over the weekend? How about learning some .NET MAUI? Check out this GitHub repo where I have collected a ton of resources that all have to do with .NET MAUI. Missing something? Please open a PR to add your own!
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
I almost never go to the office, but when I do I need to make the mandatory pictureโ€ฆ
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
There was something about Microsoft Build this year. What was it againโ€ฆ ๐Ÿค” anyway, May 24th - May 26th on a screen near you!
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Gerald Versluis
9 months
Yeah I guess this sums me up pretty well
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Gerald Versluis
2 months
Big day for .NET MAUI Community Toolkit! First, we (and by we I mean mostly @Therenador ) added the capabilities to MediaElement to play in the background and show appropriate metadata and controls on the device lock screen!
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Remember; every plugin or package is just someone else doing work you could've done yourself. Appreciate their work!
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
These kinds of pull requests are so satisfying ๐Ÿ˜Œ
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Not a bad way to end the week! 1.5 MILLION views on my YouTube channel. Mind blowing ๐Ÿคฏ Subscribe (and watch!) for content about .NET MAUI, .NET in general, maybe some ASP, Azure, C# and more!
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
And it's usually csproj files as they're not always saved... You know you've been there.
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Rate my setup. Vintage look.
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
Found this one somewhere onlineโ€ฆ true and also: I can hear this image, who else?
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
Just some last minute preparations for my session about Blazor, .NET MAUI and SignalR at #Swetugg
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Gerald Versluis
3 months
If you like this tweet the like button will become a little Xamagon! ๐Ÿ™€
@devnl
Steven Thewissen
3 months
Farewell old friend, we had a good run! โฌฃโค๏ธโฌฃ
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Gerald Versluis
2 months
I finally managed to secure the (supposedly) best backpack humanity has ever accomplished!
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Gerald Versluis
8 months
Publishing your iOS & Android app can be such a hassle, but not anymore! With this amazing @code extension it's now easier than ever to publish/archive your .NET MAUI iOS and Android app Check it out, โญ๏ธ the repo, provide feedback or help out with PRs!
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Gerald Versluis
4 months
As of May 1, 2024 Apple is going to enforce their privacy manifest requirement for apps in the App Store ๐Ÿ” What that all means and more importantly: how can you make the required changes in your .NET MAUI or Xamarin iOS apps? Read it all in this blog!
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Gerald Versluis
9 months
.NET Conf is just around the corner and PACKED with all kinds of amazing content. But, maybe you're looking for .NET MAUI specifically? In this post I have tracked down all sessions that have to do with .NET MAUI and put them in an overview just for you!
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Gerald Versluis
5 years
#bluebadgeofficial and they even got my name right!
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
Just when I finally wanted to update!
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
If you're looking for FREE controls and templates for .NET MAUI that also happen to look AMAZING, this post is for you! Check out UraniumUI โ˜ข๏ธ by @EnisNecipoglu It has all kinds of cool things, check this out!
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
I'm just a guy, standing on front of some YAML pipeline asking it to COMPILE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! It's been 30 commits, enough is enough already!
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
๐Ÿ“ฃ Thread: Inspirational .NET MAUI designs for your next app project! ๐ŸŒŸ๐Ÿ“ฑ Here are some great designs by my good friend @jsuarezruiz that you can start using for your own apps, TODAY! The designs are existing designs from Dribbble but implemented with .NET MAUI ๐Ÿคฏ
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
This just happened, crossed 19k! Last sprint to get to the next milestone of 20k and from thereโ€ฆ infinity ๐Ÿš€
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Gerald Versluis
8 months
If you're in need of a last-minute Christmas present, this might be it! ๐ŸŽ„ This book just came out and teaches you everything there is to know about using the MVVM pattern! And as if that isn't enough, the examples being used are built with .NET MAUI.
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
We've just released v1.1.0 of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit! Besides some new features and bugfixes, we now have a Roslyn Analyzer to tell you that you didn't add the UseMauiCommunityToolkit line to your initialization. And it can add it for you! ๐Ÿคฏ
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Wondering what a world looks like where .NET MAUI has fully drawn controls? @jsuarezruiz is working on AlohaKit. This plugin doesn't render controls as if they were platform controls, but draws controls pixel-perfect the same everywhere! Check it out:
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Totally missed my 3 year mark working at Microsoft on June 1st ๐Ÿ˜… Soโ€ฆ 3 years and 6 days working at Microsoft today hooray!
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
Another addition to my .NET MAUI book collection! This gem from @JesseLiberty and @rodrigojuarez with a foreword from @maddymontaquila ๐Ÿคฏ
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
I should meet @JamesMontemagno in person more oftenโ€ฆ this should be enough for a conference or two! #TechoramaNL
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Gerald Versluis
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Maybe you're just starting on your .NET MAUI journey or you are already on your way and looking for more... I have tried to capture all available resources that are out there on this GitHub repository. Courses, books, blogs, whatever you need and more!๐Ÿค“
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Gerald Versluis
4 months
This might be our most anticipated release yet... TouchBehavior is here! ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿ“ฑ Previously known as TouchEffect in Xamarin, this functionality is now ported and available in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit version 8.0 Find all the details here ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Gerald Versluis
5 years
A glimpse into the future of how easy it will be to debug #XamarinForms with #sourcelink looking forward to all those detailed bug reports! ๐Ÿ˜‰ #almostready #awesome
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Gerald Versluis
4 years
Iโ€™ve just published a public NuGet for the first time under the name of Microsoft ๐Ÿ˜ฑ triple checked everything to see if I didnโ€™t do anything stupid. But I think it went OK! More information soon... ๐Ÿคž
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
15k, still pretty amazed at the milestones I'm hitting with this little thing I was going to try because of the lack of in-person conferences ๐Ÿ˜… Thanks for the support everyone and happy Sunday!
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Can you do push notifications with .NET MAUI and Firebase? You most certainly can! @AndreasNesheim has gone through all the hoops so you don't have to. Read here how to get started with push notifications on iOS and Android with .NET MAUI.
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
This just in: my YouTube channel hit 20k subscribers! Thatโ€™s about 19.999 more than expected! Just to give you an idea: the O2 Arena in London can hold 20k people. Thatโ€™s insane! Maybe we should all have a party there? ๐Ÿค”
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
I have Xamarin.UITest working with .NET MAUI for Android and iOS _and_ running on App Center. Guess no one would be interested in thatโ€ฆ
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
๐Ÿšจ MessagingCenter has been deprecated for .NET MAUI in .NET 7 and will be removed in .NET 8 - PANIC! ๐Ÿ’ก The recommended replacement is WeakReferenceMessenger which is also MUCH faster! @progalex shows us how to swap these two solutions in this blog ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Gerald Versluis
5 months
I almost can't believe it, but we have fullscreen support for MediaElement in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit! ๐Ÿ“บ We just released version 3.1.0 to NuGet with this major new feature and 2 bugfixes as well Go check it out and let us know how you like it!
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Gerald Versluis
8 months
Exclusive Black Friday deal, hours of free .NET, .NET MAUI and Blazor content for 100% free! Subscribe now to unlock lifetime access!
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Gerald Versluis
2 months
5 years ago today, I had the privilege to join Microsoft! Crazy how fast that time went by, and now here we are 5 years later with a ton of new experiences and lots of new friends who happen to be also crazy cool people to work with! On to the 10? ๐Ÿค”
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
Just pushed #XamarinCommunityToolkit 1.1 over the fence! Lots of new goodies to try out: LazyView, ShadowEffect, Popups, translation things, lots of bugs fixed. Awesomeness all around basically. Also: enabled nullability so get those nulls in check!
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
Thatโ€™s a big pile of using #dotnetmaui shirts! I think this โ€œwho wants one?โ€ got a bit out of hand ๐Ÿ˜… just in time for #MSBuild2021 well, for me. Now I need to start sending these out ๐Ÿฆ… thanks @msg_group for sponsoring this!
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
It was time... Got myself a MacBook Pro M1 ๐ŸŽ
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
How do I upgrade my Xamarin.Forms app to .NET MAUI? @maddymontaquila power posing her way into this next session at #TechoramaNL
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Gerald Versluis
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With UraniumUI for .NET MAUI you do not only get a set of free and open-source controls, but also material design across all platforms! That's right! Material design on iOS, Android and even Windows! But there is more... What that is? Check it out! ๐Ÿ‘€
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Not a bad start of 2023 (or 200000023? ๐Ÿ˜)! 2m views on my videos! This has gone further than I couldโ€™ve ever imagined. Once again like to thank everyone for following and supporting me on this journey ๐Ÿ™ You can be part of the next 1m views too:
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Anyone missing the MediaElement in .NET MAUI Community Toolkit? ๐Ÿ‘€
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
Yes! I've secured myself a copy of this .NET MAUI book, looking forward to going through it. You can order your own here: (no referral, just being nice)
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
Happy birthday @Microsoft ๐ŸŽ‰
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
We can finally share it! Xamarin Community Toolkit is joining forces with Windows Community Toolkit and we'll now be CommunityToolkit.*, totally ready for .NET MAUI Great things are coming! Blog post with all the details is here:
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
Need to play some audio from your .NET MAUI app? @Bijington and myself have been hacking together a little plugin for that! Based on the popular SimpleAudioPlayer for Xamarin, we have now create which allows you to play some audio with ease ๐ŸŽถ
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
Building .NET MAUI bits on my M1 MacBook, copy that through RDP to my Windows machine on the network with a physical Android device hooked up to it. Mirrored with the Win11 Your Phone app which doesn't only mirror but also let's me interact with it... I'm living in the year 3000
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
As an alternative to the well-known ZXing library for Xamarin and .NET MAUI there is also a plugin for barcode scanning with Google Vision and ML Kit! With this plugin scanning all kinds of barcodes in your .NET MAUI app is a breeze. Let me show you!
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Gerald Versluis
2 years
In anticipation of the โ€œofficialโ€ set I ordered the parts and made my own happy Visual Studio 25th anniversary!
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Gerald Versluis
3 years
I'm this close ๐Ÿค to punching a CI pipeline in the face
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Gerald Versluis
4 years
๐Ÿ‘€ #XamarinCommunityToolkit pre3 is up now! With a logo and #CameraView and much more! #CameraView definitely still needs some work but we want that early feedback (and contributions...) from you! Check out all the new goodies here
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Gerald Versluis
1 year
Weโ€™ve updated Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials to target Android 13! This way you can keep using the latest versions of your dependencies and release to the Google Play Store until May 2024 when Xamarin support ends
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Gerald Versluis
4 years
This is amazing! Cool trick to speed up your notication testing. I wonder it it will fail whenever you have an error in registering etc. It might not cover the full end-to-end, still cool!
@airkai
Kai
4 years
Testing remote push notifications used to be a pain. With Xcode 11.4 you can just drag the payload into the simulator ๐Ÿ‘
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