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NuGets Everywhere! VS or XS!

Alright so a quick follow up to that huge blog I just wrote about PCLs. So PCLs are great for your core, but are also great because you can share PCLs with people and they will work everywhere. On Visual Studio there is a great Nuget Package Manager [http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/27077b70-9dad-4c64-adcf-c7cf6bc9970c] already that you can grab and install. If you are using Xamarin Studio you have a pretty great option as well with THIS Addin [https://github.com/mrward/monodevelop…

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Xamarin + PCL + MAC Xamarin Studio + Visual Studio #LetsDoThis

This blog is now obsolete as official PCL support has been added to Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS for both Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio. There is no longer a need to do any file copying or anything fancy, simply hit File->New Project -> PCL. I have a webinar: you can find here [http://blog.xamarin.com/webinar-recording-native-app-development/] So last night at the Xamarin [http://xamarin.com/] drinkup in Bellevue there was a lot of discussion about PCL and also bout MVVM frameworks…

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Some more code!

So before motzcod.es existed I did a lot of blog posting about code and such over on motzwrit.es. As tumblr doesn’t allow a good way to transition posts I just wanted to create a nice archive here: Windows Phone: Amazing - 1 Feature = Windows Phone Toolkit [http://www.motzwrit.es/post/37436490939/amazing-1-feature-wp-toolkit] Windows Store: Re-Use your WP Isolated Storage Settings in Windows Store Apps [http://www.motzwrit.es/post/30814582479/re-use-your-wp7-isolated-storage-settings-in-win8-m…

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ProgressButton for Xamarin.Android

I was browsing through some Android Views [http://www.androidviews.net] and stumbled across a very familiar view, the ProgressButton [http://f2prateek.com/progressbutton/]. I have seen this plenty of times in just about every Google Play app. It is very simple with multiple arches of color and a drawable resource to let you know if you have pinned it or not. So last night and this morning I decided to port it over to Xamarin.Android. It is extremely easy to use as part of my MonoDroid Toolkit…

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LegacyBar: Your MonoDroid ActionBar

Android is kind of a beast, interesting and complex. One of my favorite features of Android has to be their implementation of the Actionbar, which they started in ICS 3.0. If you are a native Java programmer using the action bar is great, and if you need to target android 2.X devices there are some great libraries that give you backwards compatibility. If you are like me, a C# developer using Mono for Android [http://www.xamarin.com] then it isn’t that easy. When I started developing apps I s…

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March 13th, 2013

Weather Underground + Android made simple

In a hung for integrating weather into one of my apps I looked at all of the different weather APIs out there. In this hunt I also wanted to find an easy client wrapper as well. My favorite solution thus far has to be the Weather Underground [http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api] and 47Deg [https://github.com/47deg/android-wunderground-client] client. A simple jar to just drop in with a very easy and intuitive interface. Based on open source RESTrung library it is fast and efficient. Just w…

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February 23rd, 2013

Windows 8 WMC/Media Player Fix Error C00D11B1

Alright so a weird one tonight, basically I have tons of m2ts and avi files which just have AC3 audio usually in them, or even lesser in the avi. I had no issues playing these files on my Windows 7 HTPC or even my Windows 8 laptop. However I recently wiped the win7 htpc and installed WIndows 8 Pro with Media Center. Now ALL of my Live and Recorded TV works just fine, but when I try to play back these ripped files WMC just says can not open file and Media Player throws error C00D11B1. Now Microso…

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January 23rd, 2013

Windows 8 Themes and High Contrast

Themes and High Contrast are easy to do on Windows 8. Light and Dark are at your disposal, but don’t forget about implementing High Contrast, it is easy! You can change your accents colors very easy by using HAMMER [https://github.com/Code52/HAMMER] to get rid of the default Purple colors. I made a short video:…

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NuGets Everywhere! VS or XS!

Xamarin + PCL + MAC Xamarin Studio + Visual Studio #LetsDoThis

Some more code!

ProgressButton for Xamarin.Android

LegacyBar: Your MonoDroid ActionBar

Weather Underground + Android made simple

Windows 8 WMC/Media Player Fix Error C00D11B1

Windows 8 Themes and High Contrast

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