Category Archives: Tooling

Xamarin Visual Studio extension low profile

Posted on December 10, 2014 by erictummers

Our team is working on a large project that has clients for Web, Desktop, Android and iOS. The clients use shared libraries as advised all over the internet. Building for the mobile platforms is done with Xamarin on a Mac. … Continue reading →

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JSONPackage did not load correctly

Posted on November 26, 2014 by erictummers

Rename or remove the ComponentModelCache folder to stop loading removed components. Continue reading →

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Automate test environment with Azure Virtual Machines

Posted on November 19, 2014 by erictummers

Setting up a test environment in Windows Azure can be automated with powershell. This post contains some parts of my script. Continue reading →

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Chocolatey install prey

Posted on November 10, 2014 by erictummers

I’m becoming a huge fan of chocolatey and powershell for automation of my environment. Today I wrote a little script to complement my development environment with prey. Prey lets you keep track of your laptop, phone and tablet whenever missing, … Continue reading →

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Xamarin Trail

Posted on October 27, 2014 by erictummers

Visual Studio notified me that using WCF is not permitted in the starter edition of Xamarin. I needed to login and buy the Business Edition. Then I found the beginning a xamarin trail in the developers guides. Just login or … Continue reading →

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