Android An update on Android emulators: Hyper-V and HAXM Hyper-V Already around one year ago, I have already written about Hyper-V support for Android emulators. During this year, a few things have been simplified, mainly thanks to the fact
Xbox How to play Xbox One games on Windows 10 To play Xbox games on Windows 10, first of all you need a game compatible with Xbox Play Anywhere: in the previous link you can find the full list of
Visual Studio Setup of Tabs vs Whitespaces on most common IDEs If for you it is important to correctly format your code, you know very well about the whitespaces versus tabs dilemma. Generally, in the past tabs were preferred, because they
.NET How to use a controller from another assembly in Asp.Net Core Let's suppose you have a Asp.Net Core application and you want to split the controllers in different class libraries (for example, to place the API controllers in a separate
.NET Visual Studio error: "The project file cannot be opened by the project system, because it is missing some critical imports or the referenced SDK cannot be found." It happened to me, recently, to work on multiple .NET Core solutions from various customers, but I was not able to open them. Or better: Visual Studio was able to
.NET .NET Core Transitive Dependencies and how to block them In .NET Core, differently from .NET Framework, both Package and Project Dependencies are Transitive by default. Let's suppose for example to have the following project structure: Project DAL: it references
.NET Develop graphical Linux apps on Windows with the WSL, Visual Studio and Mono In this guide, I will present you the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and how to develop graphical Linux applications on Windows with Visual Studio, thanks to Mono used as
Azure How I have moved my blog to Ghost During my past holidays, I have migrated my blog from Blogifier to Ghost. The main reason of this move has been the lack of development of Blogifier (and even before,
Android Hyper-V support for Google Android emulators At Build 2018, Microsoft has announced the Hyper-V support for the Google Android emulators. Before discussing about this, let's have an introduction about how we have arrived here. Traditionally, the
.NET How to configure Code Analysis in .NET Core Code Analysis (formerly FxCop) is a very powerful tool to help improving the code quality in .NET projects. Let's make a bit of history: the previous version of this tool
GitHub GitHub: how to reset the content of a repository Steps to follow in case you want to reset (i.e. empty) the content of a GitHub repository, without deleting the full repository itself: in case you don't already have
Azure Zoo 105 Podcast: adding Azure Blob storage In this last step of my application, I wanted to save the podcast episodes (the real mp3 files) in an Azure Blob storage. I did't want to slow down my
Azure Zoo 105 Podcast: adding CosmosDB After having developed the first version of the podcast feed, I wanted to improve it. My idea was to cache the data already got from the http endpoint, to achieve
Azure Zoo 105 Podcast: introduction and Azure Function setup The Zoo di 105 is a very popular Italian radio program. It's a satiric program made of multiple "scenette", sketches that continue from episode to episode. While there
.NET The IDisposable Pattern explained Doing multiple code reviews, I see that a recurring problem is the missing or wrong implementation of the IDisposable pattern. I try to explain it in this article. Let's try
Xamarin Debug Xamarin.iOS via wi-fi Visual Studio 2017 v15.6 and Visual Studio for Mac 7.4 introduce the possibility to debug Xamarin.iOS applications via wi-fi. As per Apple documentation, this requires to have
Xamarin PASSED Exam: Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer Update: on June 27th, 2018 the certification has been renewed! On June 27th, 2017, I've passed the following Xamarin exam: Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer. Automatically I've also got the Xamarin
