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XCode license must be accepted in order to be connected and working against the Mac

So, I recently refreshed my Mac - I use it for Xamarin development and while I am travelling or to show off :D I use it in conjunction of my awesome Windows Desktop Build with VS2017. So I follow the drill, install Mac - update all things - setup iTunes etc. This time I started with Brew first to install NodeJS - even before I installed XCode or Xamarin - Brew suggested to install XCode command line tools so I installed it (almost there, hang on). Then I installed XCode (v8.3.2 in my case - yours might be different) and then all things Xamarin. This worked pretty well on MAC somehow. But then I tried to connect my VS + Xamarin setup with Xamarin Mac Agent and I keep getting this error: Xcode license must be accepted in order to be connected and working against the Mac I did » Read more

Jsinh 10 July 2017

Remote debugging Azure Mobile Service - Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Quick note: Below case only affects developers using VS2015 (only) and AzureSDK for .NET - v2.8.2 seems to fix the problem. Link: Azure SDK for .NET v2.8.2 Many of you are using Azure Mobile Service as your service back-end for the mobile device applications. It has been there for a while now and it is pretty awesome. Azure and Microsoft recently shifting towards the concepts of App Mobile Service resource to do the Mobile Service stuffs with the same pattern that applies to ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI. Flash back For everyone who has a hosted Azure Mobile Service in their Azure Account should be seeing this new option called "Migrate to App Service" when that resource is selected in Classic Azure Portal: This is an in-place upgrade to the App Service provided by Azure team. When you click on that option you see » Read more

Jsinh 23 January 2016

libpng warning : iCCP: Not recognizing known sRGB profile that has been edited

Recently started playing with XAMARIN and working on related stuffs. I created a Xamarin.Forms Shared application, which creates an [ApplicationName].Droid and [ApplicationName].iOS project along with [ApplicationName] shared project. To work further on the images, I replaced the default XAMARIN icon image which is added in [ApplicationName].Droid\Resources\drawable folder and additionally added image for Splash screen to be shown on application start-up on Android device. Once I configured that, I started receiving an annoying warning for the two images when I build the project: libpng warning : iCCP: Not recognizing known sRGB profile that has been edited On quick search I found that most of the people out there fixed this issue by downloading PNG optimizer utility or processing the image(s) with online optimizer tools. I use Visual studio so I was trying to find more direct and quick way to fix this issue. I came » Read more

Jsinh 23 September 2015

Visual Studio Code Editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux Released

Pretty exciting times for all developers. Microsoft is changing the course on how you can build application and not worry what platform you choose to achieve that. Every few months and at sessions / conference we see Microsoft teams making Frameworks, Libraries and Tools open source. As "No one is left behind, we are hearing you" is in the air you breath. .NET development / execution stack is reaching OS X and Linux. This love is growing more and more every day. In past we saw few eye catching deals like ASP.NET 5 / MVC 6 and "Develop using your favorite editor" - OmniSharp, today at Microsoft Build 2015 developer conference Visual Studio Code Editor was announced. One more edition of Visual Studio in the belt. This one is particular and different from the regular Visual Studio IDE that you use. It is Microsoft's offering that can be » Read more

Jsinh 30 April 2015

Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 released

Microsoft and Visual Studio team announced release of Community Technology Preview 5 (CTP 5). Download: Visual Studio 2015 CTP5 This version of visual studio brings lots of improvements / better integration and bug fixes for ASP.NET (ASP.NET 5 vNext version). Some of the highlighted features, changes and fixes released with this version of Visual studio: XAML langauge service rebuilt on top of .NET Compiler Platfor ("Roslyn"), fast and reliable XAML editing experience with intellisense. Timeline tool - New UI Performance Analysis Tool for WPF Applications Improvements to IntelliTrace in Visual Studio Ultimate 2015 Improvements to Diagnostic tools debugger window Announcing TypeScript 1.4 Tons of improvements and bug fixes for ASP.NET 5 - Beta 2 This is a good oppurtunity to try out the new features that will be part of Visual Studio 2015 (the name might change). » Read more

Jsinh 17 January 2015