Come hang out in my little corner of the internet all about tech, code, and creativity.https://thewissen.com/https://www.thewissen.io/entity-framework-performance-tips/https://www.thewissen.io/entity-framework-performance-tips/Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/improving-your-visual-studio-comments/https://www.thewissen.io/improving-your-visual-studio-comments/Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/uninstalling-a-stubborn-windows-8-1-app/https://www.thewissen.io/uninstalling-a-stubborn-windows-8-1-app/Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/nugget-miniprofiler/https://www.thewissen.io/nugget-miniprofiler/Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/travelog-bijna/https://www.thewissen.io/travelog-bijna/Mon, 05 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/travellog-en-toen-was-daar-bangkok/https://www.thewissen.io/travellog-en-toen-was-daar-bangkok/Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/travelog-temple-run/https://www.thewissen.io/travelog-temple-run/Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/travelog-hollanders-moeten-fietsen/https://www.thewissen.io/travelog-hollanders-moeten-fietsen/Sun, 11 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/travelog-kedeng-kedeng/https://www.thewissen.io/travelog-kedeng-kedeng/Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/travelog-olifantuh/https://www.thewissen.io/travelog-olifantuh/Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/travelog-tempels-en-spul/https://www.thewissen.io/travelog-tempels-en-spul/Thu, 15 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/travelog-een-hutje-in-de-jungle/https://www.thewissen.io/travelog-een-hutje-in-de-jungle/Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/travelog-oh-my-buddha/https://www.thewissen.io/travelog-oh-my-buddha/Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/travelog-lost-at-sea/https://www.thewissen.io/travelog-lost-at-sea/Daar dobberen we dan. Een bootje met een man of 15 dat stil ligt tussen de twee eilanden Koh Phi Phi Don en Koh Phi Phi Leh. 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GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/dotnetconf-first-speaking-gig-a-retrospective/https://www.thewissen.io/dotnetconf-first-speaking-gig-a-retrospective/Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/playing-with-animation-in-xamarin-forms/https://www.thewissen.io/playing-with-animation-in-xamarin-forms/Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/live-streaming-on-a-budget-sort-of-maybe/https://www.thewissen.io/live-streaming-on-a-budget-sort-of-maybe/With COVID-19 keeping the world in its grasp your existing hobbies might not exist anymore. Same here. So it's time to start some new ones! This is part 1 of me talking about my live-streaming experiences so far.Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/revisiting-the-base-page-concept-using-contentview/https://www.thewissen.io/revisiting-the-base-page-concept-using-contentview/Tue, 30 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/pancakeview-goes-v2-0-heres-whats-new/https://www.thewissen.io/pancakeview-goes-v2-0-heres-whats-new/Fri, 10 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/how-to-provide-negative-numeric-input-on-xamarin-forms-ios/https://www.thewissen.io/how-to-provide-negative-numeric-input-on-xamarin-forms-ios/Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/improving-the-touch-targets-in-your-apps-using-xamarin-forms/https://www.thewissen.io/improving-the-touch-targets-in-your-apps-using-xamarin-forms/Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/going-dark-easily-implementing-dark-mode-in-your-xamarin-forms-app/https://www.thewissen.io/going-dark-easily-implementing-dark-mode-in-your-xamarin-forms-app/Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/styling-the-android-bottom-tabs-animation-behavior-and-font/https://www.thewissen.io/styling-the-android-bottom-tabs-animation-behavior-and-font/Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/handling-the-new-uidatepicker-in-xamarin-forms/https://www.thewissen.io/handling-the-new-uidatepicker-in-xamarin-forms/Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/adaptive-icons-in-android/https://www.thewissen.io/adaptive-icons-in-android/Tue, 15 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/a-quick-introduction-to-dotnet-maui/https://www.thewissen.io/a-quick-introduction-to-dotnet-maui/Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/new-handlers-infrastructure-in-net-maui/https://www.thewissen.io/new-handlers-infrastructure-in-net-maui/If you’ve ever done any Xamarin.Forms development you might be aware of the concept of a renderer. This is a piece of code that takes care of rendering a specific control to the screen in a consistent way across each platform.Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/adopting-the-generic-host/https://www.thewissen.io/adopting-the-generic-host/Coming from the ASP.NET Core space, you may already be aware of the .NET Generic Host model. It provides a clean way to configure and start up your apps. It does so by standardizing things like configuration, dependency injection, logging and more.Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/more-maui-bits/https://www.thewissen.io/more-maui-bits/This post covers a few different topics, namely single project, the Xamarin Community Toolkit and migrating from Xamarin.Forms to MAUI.Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/making-maui-cd-pipeline/https://www.thewissen.io/making-maui-cd-pipeline/In this first post I look to cover building a GitHub Actions pipeline that can build your .NET MAUI application for both Android and iOS and get it all the way to the Google Play Store and Apple AppStore for testing.Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/making-maui-cd-pipeline-part2/https://www.thewissen.io/making-maui-cd-pipeline-part2/Welcome to the second post covering building a GitHub Actions pipeline that can build your .NET MAUI application for both Android and iOS.Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/making-maui-cd-pipeline-part3/https://www.thewissen.io/making-maui-cd-pipeline-part3/This is the third and last post covering how to build a GitHub Actions pipeline and have it build your .NET MAUI application for both Android and iOS.Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/debug-rainbows-rereleased/https://www.thewissen.io/debug-rainbows-rereleased/After what seems to have been an eternity of me procrastinating, it's finally time for the comeback of a true debugging superhero - DebugRainbows! 🦸‍♂️Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/goodbye-xamarin/https://www.thewissen.io/goodbye-xamarin/As of May 1st, 2024, we have officially bid adieu to Xamarin, marking the end of an era in cross-platform mobile development. Microsoft's decision to discontinue support for Xamarin undoubtedly brings a mix of emotions for developers who have relied on it to create native mobile apps.Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/discovering-styleclass-and-class-in-net-maui/https://www.thewissen.io/discovering-styleclass-and-class-in-net-maui/In .NET MAUI, the StyleClass attribute allows you to define and apply consistent styles to UI elements across your application. Think CSS, but in XAML. Using StyleClass makes it a lot easier to manage and update your app's design.Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/free-syncfusion-for-net-maui-controls/https://www.thewissen.io/free-syncfusion-for-net-maui-controls/As developers, we’re always on the lookout for tools that make our lives easier, streamline our workflows, and, let’s face it, cut down the time we spend banging our heads on the keyboard.Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/adding-serilog-to-net-maui/https://www.thewissen.io/adding-serilog-to-net-maui/Logging is an essential part of any application. It's how your app tells you what just exploded. In this post, we'll explore how to integrate Serilog, a flexible and powerful logging library, into a .NET MAUI app.Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/maui-ui-july-crosswind-experiment/https://www.thewissen.io/maui-ui-july-crosswind-experiment/It's .NET MAUI UI July again, this time diving into styling your app using a little experiment I recently made. Let's dive into styling your app in a Tailwind-like fashion.Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/16kb-page-sizes-android/https://www.thewissen.io/16kb-page-sizes-android/Android 15 apps need 16 KB page size support, and my app definitely didn't have it. So let's take a quick peek at what needs to be done to support it.Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.thewissen.io/csharp-expressions-in-net-maui-xaml/https://www.thewissen.io/csharp-expressions-in-net-maui-xaml/One of the most exciting XAML innovations in years is landing in .NET MAUI soonish: C# expressions right inside your XAML. String interpolation, boolean negation, inline calculations, so yes, you can finally throw out that InvertBoolConverter.Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT