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How to move a single partition CosmosDB collection

You might start with a why? Azure CosmosDB is all about scale and one of the keystones to achieve this are partitions. As this is all true and the future, CosmosDB didn't start with a requirement for partitions and there are deployments currently using single partitions. These deployments should be

Authentication

How to update credentials with Git Credentials Manager

Access denied, insufficient permissions.... Have you ever seen this message when trying to interact with a git repository on windows? Since 2018 Microsoft moved to Git Credentials Manager, from the previous Windows Credential Store For Git. I'm using either Fork or a plain terminal with a handful of Git commands

Visual Studio 2019 keyboard shortcuts - My best tips and tricks

Overall Visual Studio 2019 introduced a lot of default features to make us as developers more productive. Before VS 2019 Resharper from Jetbrains has always been part of my toolbelt as I like to use the keyboard when coding and less mouse. I'll unveil some of the additional features I've

Azure Functions

Azure Functions Dependency Injection

One of the most requested building blocs for Azure Functions has been support for Dependency Injection. Good news it's finally native supported and I'll show you how to use it. During Microsoft Build 2019 Dependency Injection (DI) Support for Azure Functions was released. The the official documentation can be found

Azure Functions

Multipart data with Azure Functions HttpTriggers

When it comes to making Azure Functions that accepts HTTP requests using HttpTriggers it's by default fairly easy to read data being posted. But what if we want to post multipart data where we mix information and images in a single HTTP request, let's find out. If you have a

Azure DevOps

Azure Function - Run From Package deployment

Azure functions is evolving alot and many new improvements have been made. One thing that has been troublesome from time to time has been deployment. Locked files and functions not being correctly updated has been some of the issues I've experienced. When deploying Azure functions I always use Azure DevOps,

cosmosdb

Fixing CosmosDb spatial queries and current culture issue

A cool feature of CosmosDb is its spatial features. Spatial queries enables you to perform queries to measure distance between two points or similar queries. By default I'm using linq whenever I can. Recently I ran into an issue with linq and spatial queries targeting CosmosDb. As I'm a danish

Flutter

Taking Flutter for a testdrive

Why now?For about a week I've been taking Flutter for a test drive. Flutter is Googles new take on mobile cross platform development for both iOS and android. I've been reading and watching videos about Flutter since is was first announced, but never written any code until now. Xamarin

remote

Remote is the future - you just need to adapt

For the past 6 month I've worked remote on a project where none of us worked from the same location and across 2 different timezones. I want to share my learnings and why I think working remotely is the future with the right setup. A little backgroundIn may 2018 I

osx

Monitor Mobile Traffic On OSX

Developing a mobile app on OSX with Xamarin or any other tooling, you might run into the situation when you want to see what's being transfered over the wire. As a long time Windows developer I've been use to Fiddler, but what do you do when you're on OSX? Charles,

CI With VSTS And Xamarin

Works on my machine is dead, long live Continuous Integration with mobile development. Continuous Integration also known as CI is one topic on the developers shelf of best practices. It's a well integrated part of many development teams today. It helps ensuring code also compiles outside the developers own machine

xamarin

Facebook Auth with Xamarin Forms and WebAPI CustomGrant - part

Based on the two previous posts, we have a complete setup by now, with a mobile client and an secured API. Now we'll see how we can consume the API with the access tokens we generated in the previous post and finally display the data in the mobile client. You

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Facebook Auth with Xamarin Forms and WebAPI CustomGrant - part 2

In the previous post the mobile client was created. In this post we'll created the WebAPI backend part. We'll enable the API to verify a Facebook access token and exhanged it with an access token to our backend, fully supported and integrated with the ASPNET WebAPI. If you haven't read

webapi

Consume an IISExpress hosted WebAPI from OSX

Developing a mobile application with Xamarin on OSX consuming a WebAPI hosted on windows, can be a bit complicated if you want to run everything local and keep things as simple as possible. The goal of this post is a step by step to consume an IISExpress hosted WebAPI running

ATS and local development with Xamarin

After working with Xamarin for a while, one of the things I spent a lot of time on, was how to cosume an API running on Windows and hosted in VmWare Fusion from a mobile Xamarin client running in either simulator or on a device. As a .NET developer, my

xamarin

Compile XAML with Xamarin

One of the new features in Xamarin 4 and Xamarin Forms 2.0 is the ability to compile Xaml views. This feature should reduce view load time, the compiled app size, the catch might be an increase in compilation time, so let's see how this works. Xaml runtime error First

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Namespaces in Xamarin Studio

If you like me have a background using Visual Studio, one of the first things you'll notice after a little coding in Xamarin Studio is the default namespace handling. In Visual Studio namespaces per default follows the folder structure hierarchical. In Xamarin Studio is's just the opposite, a flat namespace