Author: Andrew Tarr
Dynamically Resizing UITableViewCells in Xamarin.iOS
I recently needed to implement a UI that required a UITableViewCell to have an expandable “notes” fields within it, with the expansion triggered by a button within the cell itself. Getting this to work was a little tricky. So if you find yourself in this situation, I hope you can get some ideas from me,…
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Unit Testing .NET with JustMock (tips and common pitfalls)
In this post, I’d like to share a few tips to get up and running with the Telerik mocking framework JustMock, so you can easily and quickly write tests that give you that warm-and-fuzzy feeling you crave from your code. Notes I assume some familiarity with the concepts of unit testing, dependency injection (DI), Inversion…
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Visual Studio Team Services – Triggering A Build From A Build (Using PowerShell)
As of April 2016, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) does not support triggering a build from another build. This presents a problem if you want your setup to do something like start two builds from a single pull request onto a branch (because VSTS does not support starting multiple builds from one pull request trigger)….
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Authenticating With A Custom Claims-Based Identity
In one of our recent projects, we were managing data back and forth between two websites: one set up for an intranet with Active Directory authentication and the other set up to face external traffic with Identity authentication. In the project, a need arose to authenticate a user from the Active Directory intranet site on…
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Browser Debugging Between OS X and Visual Studio in Parallels
Over the last seven months I’ve been developing web applications using Visual Studio in Parallels 10, and the experience is alternatingly fantastic and frustrating, depending on the day. Some days I get the performance I want out of Parallels, and other days it’s incredibly sluggish and quirky, especially when debugging in a browser. After several…
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