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Notes from the work.
Notes from a .NET and Azure developer, written while at Logiticks. Each one opens on the original site.
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01
Transform your Android App to Material Design
How to give an Android application Google’s Material Design, as that look spread across web and mobile.
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02
Signing the APK for distribution
After the application is built, how to sign it for Google Play and other ways of handing it out.
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03
Couldn’t connect to logcat, GetProcessId returned
A Xamarin.Android deploy that would not reach the device, and the logcat connection that failed with it.
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04
Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Android
What separates the shared Forms framework from a Xamarin.Android app when the language is still C#.
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05
Date and time on a c3.js chart
Plotting status against dates on a line chart, and the axis problem that showed up in c3.js.
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06
Schema and tables in SQL
How a schema names a table and defines it, next to the objects that store the rows.
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07
Configure LDAP on Windows
Setting up Lightweight Directory Access Protocol so a Windows machine can reach a directory.
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08
Cross-platform mobile development
A comparison of building one app for several phones instead of a separate native codebase for each.
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09
Check whether a website is down
A programmatic check for when the number of hosted sites is too large to watch by hand.
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10
Web.config file transformations
Changing an ASP.NET web.config at publish time, including the local and server connection strings.
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Certificates on Azure websites
Adding a certificate to an Azure website when the application has to call an API that requires one.
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12
Export data to Excel in MVC
Sending tabular data out as Excel from an ASP.NET MVC application, on the server.
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13
Reusable methods in Razor views
Sharing a method inside a Razor view template, including a welcome line that changes with the time of day.
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