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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.

Goodbye Emma

May 16, 20222 min read

As you may have noticed by the lack of content I have been on hiatus for the last couple of months. My beloved partner of 22 years, Emma passed away unexpectedly at the beginning of March and I have been unable to find motivation to write since. I ho...

Goodbye Emma

.NET Frontend Day 2022: Xamarin & MAUI Recap

Feb 19, 20223 min read

.NET Frontend Day 2022 took place on 10th February with a great line-up of speakers from the community & Microsoft and topics for all .NET developers. I will highlight the sessions that were of most interest to Xamarin and .NET MAUI developers. What ...

.NET Frontend Day 2022: Xamarin & MAUI Recap

Platform Specific Code using Partial Classes in .NET MAUI

Jan 27, 20229 min read

When writing a cross platform app it is common to need some platform specific code. In Xamarin.Forms we use DependencyService, in .NET MAUI we can use a similar dependency injection technique or take advantage of MAUI's multi-targeting and partial cl...

Platform Specific Code using Partial Classes in .NET MAUI

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