
How to automatically show a read me file after installing a NuGet
There are times when you have been working on your new exciting project and it looks so good that you just want to release it as soon as possible so the world can be blessed with your new NuGet package but wait your new library is a complex library and require special...

How to exclude package dependencies in a NuGet package
Sometimes during the development stage, you need to add package references to your project that are only needed either during the development or compilation stage but they are not actually required by the emitted assembly. So how do we avoid to flood the end project...

Brevitas Application Framework (Alpha Release )
First, let's start with that is Brevitas, if someone asks me (the creator) I will say that Brevitas is an application framework for Xamarin Forms that you can use to develop L.O.B (Line of Business) Applications. Creating mobile apps using MVVM pattern is fun, but it...

How to create a self contained netcore 3 console application
I have a new project that I want to deploy and I don't want it to depend on the dot net framework, so I decided to create a self-contained executable. At first, I thought it was an easy process and don't get me wrong, it is, but I could not find all the pieces of the...

Exposing your XPO ORM using GraphQL dotnet
Exposing your XPO ORM using GraphQL Note: you can download the full source code for this article in my GitHub repository In the past few years, I have been working on developing mobile applications, in the mobile world most of the applications will consume some type...

Xamarin & XPO System.NotSupportedException: Encoding 1252 data could not be found. Make sure you have correct international codeset assembly installed and enabled.
You know that moment when you are about to deliver your next mobile app, everything is working fine in your development environment but once you release the app to your customers you start getting errors like the one below You think, what happened? everything was...