microsoft

How to Fix: xcrun: error: unable to find utility "simctl", not a developer tool or in PATH

You did the update of Xcode, or Command Line Tools or Visual Studio for Mac, and now after trying to run your iOS app you are getting the error message: xcrun: error: unable to find utility "simctl", not a developer tool or in PATH The quickiet fix is to navigate

microsoft

I am Microsoft MVP... again (2022-2023)

It is the beginning of July, a very special day for every Microsoft MVP in this world. On this day most MVPs are waiting for results and an official email that will tell them if they are going to be awarded as Microsoft MVP for another (next) year. My email

xamarin

Xamarin.iOS - How to save Device Token as NSData type

Hi everybody in this short tutorial based post I will share with you one of the tips I have regarding the usage and saving approach of iOS device-token inside of Xamarin.iOS app. I had a scenario where I wanted to keep the device token in the NSData format without

personal

InfoQ: dotnet news articles for September - 2021, by me.

Hi there 👋 As you know or maybe don't know. I write for InfoQ [https://www.infoq.com/profile/Almir-Vuk/] [https://www.infoq.com/profile/Almir-Vuk/], and approximately I wrote 3-4 news articles per month. I am part of the .NET Content team [https://www.infoq.com/dotnet/] and each month,

microsoft

I am Microsoft MVP ... again (2021-2022)

Happy and excited to write this one.... and I hope I will continue to write this kind of post every first of July in the next couple of years, for now, it is the third year in a row. Being an MVP is more than an award or a title

xamarin-forms

[StackOverflow] Xamarin.Forms and Prism - How to pass data and navigate to another view?

I decided to be more active on StackOverflow and to post my answers from there, here on the blog. I will post the answers which I think are worthy to share here on the blog. Hope you will enjoy this kind of content.

xamarin

How to Fix: Visual Studio for Mac: No SDK found at specified location?

How to fix: Visual Studio for Mac: No SDK found at specified location?

event

.NET and C# course for beginners at Academy387 in Sarajevo

From November 2020 to the beginning of January 2021 I was a trainer and speaker at C# and .NET course in Sarajevo at Academy387. The course was 36 hours total with a focus on fundamentals and some advance topics at the end of the course. There were eight people in

xamarin

How to Add Custom App Actions In Xamarin.Forms app

How to add custom app-actions to your Xamarin.Forms app using Xamarin.Essentials. This blog post will show you how!

microsoft

Let's play with SQL Server on macOS

How to install and use MS SQL Server on macOS.

personal

I am Microsoft MVP... again (2020-2021)

It is the first of July, a very special day for every Microsoft MVP on this world. On this day most MVP’s are waiting for results and official email which will tell them if they are going to be awarded as Microsoft MVP for another (next) year. 1  year

personal

Storytime about me and my high school developer days

During my high school days, I have developed multiple Android mobile apps. Those were happy days, back in time when I had a lot of free time to learn, explore and play on those side project mobile apps. From this point of view, some of those apps were successful and

xamarin

Xamarin.Forms and the most easiest way to use custom fonts

With the new version of Xamarin.Forms, version 4.5.53o and up. Adding and using the custom font in your Xamarin.Forms project is easier than ever before! If you are interested in seeing a new way of doing that, this blog post will show you how to do

personal

Hello, World; ... again

Hi 👋, I am Almir Vuk, Microsoft MVP and Software Development Engineer who likes to write about programming and other life-related topics. Welcome to my new website and blog here on almirvuk.com. Hope you will enjoy the content. Just a quick introduction about me and my previous blog. I was

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Why I Love Being A Conference Speaker

For me being a conference dev speaker it is a great honour! Every time I receive the confirmation email for my sessions  I am one of the happiest people in the world. I am an active speaker from 2015 and till now I was a speaker at some of the

personal

2019: My year in review

In this blog post, I want to share my speaking session and speaking opportunities and other activities in this great 2019. I had a lot of speaking and other opportunities and event and now I want to group them all in this blog post and share them with you.

xamarin

Prism for Xamarin.Forms: IConfirmNavigation

Prism for Xamarin.Forms. In this blog post we will see how you can easily control the navigation state from your view-model and decide if navigation is possible. This is very short but practical blog post with demo example.

xamarin

How to remove extra padding at the top of Label control in Xamarin.Forms

This blog post will show you how to remove extra padding at the top of Label control in Xamarin.Forms on Android using custom renderer

xamarin

Difference between Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin Traditional - StackOverflow Answer

Difference between Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin Traditional - My StackOverflow Answer to the question.

microsoft

Today I passed 70-483 - Programming in C# Exam

In this blog post I will write about how did I passed the 70-483 - Programming in C# exam. What resources did I use and how it ended up.

microsoft

Tabular and Multidimensional Model in one SQL Server 2016

At the time I am writing this simple tutorial I have my subject on university on topic Business Intelligence and form my final project of that subject I need to create OLAP and TABULAR for data analysis using SQL Server and other BI Tools. So the topic of this tutorial