In my earlier post Getting Started: Xamarin Forms with .NET Standard I covered how to create a new Xamarin Forms project which uses a .NET Standard 1.4 library to share the views between iOS, Android and UWP. 

Unit testing is an integral part of modern software development. For years, Moq has been a popular choice in the .NET ecosystem for creating mock objects. Recent concerns over Moq’s SponsorLink feature have prompted some developers to consider such a switch. In this article, we delve into why you might consider NSubstitute over Moq and how to make the transition. 

When Ruby on Rails, a web application framework written in the Ruby programming language, was first released as open source back in July 2004, it stumbled to rise in the rankings as one of the top programming languages. But in 2006, Apple announced that it would be shipping Ruby on Rails with their Mac OS X v10.5 “Leopard” and Ruby soon became known and used by many. So much so, that the TIOBE index, a measure of the popularity of programming languages, named Ruby the “Programming Language of 2006.” However, due to some scalability issues and the release of other exciting new tools, such as Node.js and AngularJS, Ruby started to lose its popularity and by 2008 it seemed as if it was on its way out. 

Well, the speculation is now over and Blazor WebAssembly is expected in May 2020! Which should put it right around Build time next year. 

Cloud Computing is currently the hot topic in the developer world these days, and it seems all anyone wants to talk about is the cloud. If you're like me you signed up for something like Windows Azure just to see what the hype was all about. There are a lot of good reasons to move an app to the cloud, but it's still not for everyone. There are some things you need to think about before taking this gamble with your app.  

 An unhandled exception of type 'StructureMap.StructureMapException' occurred in StructureMap.dll
Additional information: Error in the application.

This is a set of C# Coding Guidelines I'm putting together for myself and others in the community who would like to contribute. It will be both coding guidelines and tips / best practices for C# 

Learn how you can save time by creating your own reusable .NET Core templates in just a few steps.

Do you ever develop prototypes, or starter projects/accelerators, that you’d like to use again in the future? A good way to do that is by creating custom templates for dotnet. Once completed, anytime you want to create a new project of that type in the future, you can key in “dotnet new ” and you’re off, complete with correct namespaces. You can even do conditional checks, or variable replacements. 

According to a report published by the International Data Corporation (IDC), the total number of software development experts across the world is well in excess of 18,500,000