Dave Murray

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.NET developer with a passion for mobile and DevOps. I build cross platform apps using Xamarin, backend systems using Azure and GitHub Actions using Docker.

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GitHub Action - Edit Release v1.1.0

Jan 15, 20221 min read

Edit Release is a GitHub Action for editing an existing release. Edit the Name, Draft status and Pre-release status of a release as well as adding text and the content of markdown files to the Body of a release. Edit Release is built with C# and Dock...

GitHub Action - Edit Release v1.1.0

Building .NET MAUI apps with GitHub Actions

Jan 3, 20227 min read

Writing a GitHub Actions workflow to build a cross platform .NET MAUI app is more complicated than the average .NET app. First you have to build all the platforms you want to support, taking into consideration the runners they can be built on. Then, ...

Building .NET MAUI apps with GitHub Actions

Upgrading to .NET MAUI Preview 11

Dec 28, 20214 min read

.NET MAUI Preview 11 was released a little over a week ago but it was something of a stealth release due to a late bug in Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2. We can still install Preview 11 using the CLI but there are some caveats. In this article I e...

Upgrading to .NET MAUI Preview 11

Document your .NET code with DocFX and GitHub Actions

Dec 19, 20218 min read

In this article I show how to use XML doc comments, DocFX and GitHub Actions to automatically build and publish documentation for your .NET code. Along the way I'll explain how to install DocFX and set up a documentation project, add XML doc comments...

Document your .NET code with DocFX and GitHub Actions

First Steps on MAUI Beach

Dec 3, 202110 min read

With the release of Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 in early November I decided it was time to set sail for .NET MAUI. This article documents my experiences starting a new cross platform app using .NET MAUI Preview 10. The app is a playground for exper...

First Steps on MAUI Beach

Code Coverage Summary v1.2.0 Released!

Nov 25, 20211 min read

I'm pleased to announce another update to my GitHub Action Code Coverage Summary. CodeCoverageSummary v1.2.0 brings two new features: šŸ—ƒ supports multiple coverage files šŸ§­ supports hiding the Branch Rate and Complexity metrics in the output Perfor...

Code Coverage Summary v1.2.0 Released!