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Authenticating Your C# Application for the Google Cloud Platform – Part 1

The new C# libraries for the Google Cloud Platform, available on NuGet, make it easy to get started adding these features to your platform. However, before you can use them, you obviously need to authenticate your application for access. Google uses OAUTH 2.0 as the protocol for authentication In this post we’ll discuss the different […]

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Adding Tapped Event Gestures to Any XAML Control with Xamarin Forms

We previously looked at how to create User Controls with Xamarin Forms to display an Image Button for the different activities in our Falafel 2 Go application. Now that we have these reusable buttons, we need to make them tab-enabled so that they can launch the appropriate activity. As we’ll see in today’s post, this […]

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Porting a Windows App Studio Universal App to Android Using Xamarin

Microsoft’s App Studio is a fantastic tool to help you design and generate applications for Windows Phone as well as Universal Apps for both the phone and Windows. The online interface allows you to add content like RSS feeds, Facebook pages, Flicker photos and more with a few clicks, generating a complete Visual Studio solution […]

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Serving Files from another domain

I’ve recently needed to develop a method to allow users to access files that are on a restricted domain. This domain is on an internal server that has no external access. However, it serves documents and files to a webserver that is accessible externally. So the webserver has access to the files, meaning they can […]

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