Gerald Versluis

In a previous edition of DotNetCurry Magazine I wrote about how you could make your apps smarter with the Azure Cognitive Services. In that article, I demonstrated how to leverage some simple REST APIs to have the Cognitive Services describe an image or extract the emotion of a person in the picture.
In this edition, I will go a little deeper and show you how to use the Custom Vision API and Content Moderator Services to implement content moderation.

Warning: this article may contain… Show more

In a previous edition of DotNetCurry Magazine I wrote about how you could make your apps smarter with the Azure Cognitive Services. In that article, I demonstrated how to leverage some simple REST APIs to have the Cognitive Services describe an image or extract the emotion of a person in the picture.
In this edition, I will go a little deeper and show you how to use the Custom Vision API and Content Moderator Services to implement content moderation.

Warning: this article may contain (references to) a small amount of offensive language to demonstrate content moderation. Show less

Learn the bare essentials needed to begin developing cross-platform, mobile apps using Xamarin.Forms. Apps can be easily deployed to Google Play or to the Apple App Store. You will gain insight on architecture and how to arrange your app's design, where to begin developing, what pitfalls exist, and how to avoid them. Also covered are expected new features in Xamarin.Forms 3.0, so you may be prepared ahead of time for what the next release brings.

Xamarin.Forms Essentials provides a… Show more

Learn the bare essentials needed to begin developing cross-platform, mobile apps using Xamarin.Forms. Apps can be easily deployed to Google Play or to the Apple App Store. You will gain insight on architecture and how to arrange your app's design, where to begin developing, what pitfalls exist, and how to avoid them. Also covered are expected new features in Xamarin.Forms 3.0, so you may be prepared ahead of time for what the next release brings.

Xamarin.Forms Essentials provides a brief history of Xamarin as a company, including how their product has become one of the most-used, cross-platform technologies for enterprise applications and app development across the world. Examples in the book are built around a real-life example that is an actual app in Google Play and in the Apple App Store, and has thousands of downloads between iOS and Android. You will learn how an application is set up from scratch, and you will benefit from the author's hard-won experience and tips in addressing various development challenges. Show less

At the Microsoft Build conference this year, Xamarin presented the next iteration of Xamarin.Forms v3. In this article, I will show you a few cool features that they announced and what you can expect from this new version.

If you have looked into Xamarin.Forms, or even built an app with it, you might have noticed that Forms has everything to implement the MVVM framework. Xamarin. Forms is already equipped with data-binding, commands and dependency injection which are some MVVM ingredients we will look at in this article.

Learn everything you need to set up a full-featured, automated pipeline for Xamarin development and deployment. Automate everything from the build step through to deployment and delivery to your customer. If you thought this level of automation could be achieved only by large companies with generous funding, think again! You as a single developer, or working in a small team or company, can automate your processes to punch heavier than your weight. What’s more, you can achieve this level of… Show more

Learn everything you need to set up a full-featured, automated pipeline for Xamarin development and deployment. Automate everything from the build step through to deployment and delivery to your customer. If you thought this level of automation could be achieved only by large companies with generous funding, think again! You as a single developer, or working in a small team or company, can automate your processes to punch heavier than your weight. What’s more, you can achieve this level of automation completely for free!

This hands-on guide takes you step-by-step from setting up your first automated build all the way to integrated unit testing, and finally through to delivering a high-quality app to your testers and end users. The automation presented in this book saves a lot of frustration and recurring work, providing you more time to focus on building the robust and compelling apps that delight your customers and keep you steps ahead of the competition. Not only does this book teach how to get a grip on consistent quality, but it covers the use of HockeyApp to track events and usage, and to report errors and anomalies back to home base for developers to investigate. Many times it’s possible to detect and fix errors before a user even notices they are there. Show less

My article about testing your apps with Xamarin Test Cloud to deliver 5-star rated apps to your audience

Article about creating your own free CI/CD pipeline for your (Xamarin) apps with VSTS, Bitrise and HockeyApp

Dutch article in SDN magazine about creating your own free CI/CD pipeline for your (Xamarin) apps with VSTS, Bitrise and HockeyApp

Dutch article about the DependencyService in Xamarin.Forms

Dutch article about an introduction to Xamarin