There are lots of occasions where you want to create a PDF document, e.g. for a report or an invoice. While there are plenty of options for PDF handling in .NET it turns out none of them actually work with Azure Functions running true serverless in a consumption plan. This is because all libraries I found do rely on GDI+ which is not available in the consumption plan. However most of these solutions work with Azure Functions running in App Plan Basic...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Multilingual support is one of the most common requirements for mobile apps. One of the great parts of building mobile apps with Xamarin is that handling multiple languages is super simple. It may seem like a difficult task, but it is relatively easy if you leverage built in .NET capabilities to add multilingual support to your apps. A while back I wrote an article on how to do add multilingual support with my plugin. In this article, I...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
On the speaking circuit, I've been doing a good number of presentations on Dapper. My talk is entitled Better Object Mapping in .NET with Dapper and this is an attempt to catch the eyes of developers who might have heard of object mapping from things like Entity Framework.What is Dapper?Dapper is a Micro-ORM or Micro Object...