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Ten weeks of SuperNova

Today the Quick Lookup founder team will finish the ten week startup accelerator, Super Nova. This is a short story about our journey

Startup

Quick Lookup awarded fifty millions in grant money

OK sorry for that click bait 🙊! But it's still true regardless... it's just that the amount is in ISK not in dollars 😎

QuickLookup

Game sector data

Our first target segment, the gaming industry. Read more to know why its a very interesting segment.

Startup

Last years start-up reflection and what's to come at my new company Quick Lookup

Little bit on my personal start-up history and my latest data service company Quick Lookup

Xamarin

Adding a iOS test user to AppCenter

I was having some trouble with getting my iOS testers up and running so I decided to create my own instructions and share them with you. On Android this is much easier and your users (and you) don't need to jump through so many hoops! Not at the testers stage

Xamarin

Change the Statusbar color from Xamarin.Forms

Do you want to change the default statusbar color and do it from Xamarin.Forms? Lets explore that here...

Tips&Tricks

You can use Visual Studio Community edition for FREE

Did you know that if you are a small shop or an solo independent developer you can use Visual Studio Community Edition for free?

SQL

SQL-net with a must have extension

Do you want to add a relational database to your mobile app?

Xamarin

Custom dialog with Prism

Get your dialog parameters back into you viewModel

Xamarin

Errors while using Prisms CommandParameter

Reading stack trace error messages is sometimes just hard!

Xamarin

UI animation from your ViewModel

This post is about accessing your views code-behind from your viewModel and nothing much about animation sorry!

Xamarin

Circle button in Xamarin.Forms

Buttons in Xamarin.Forms are much powerful than they used to be. Lets circle around that fact for a while!

Xamarin

Font images in Xamarin.Forms

Use icon images in your Xamarin.Forms apps. A easy step-step guide.

Tips&Tricks

Nesting a file in VS project

How to nest a file under another file to keep them close to each other

SQL

SQL helper tip - Table details

This will be a short tip for MSSSQL Management Studio to get detailed information on a database table.

C#

Func and Action delegates

The post contains information on the differences of Func/Action delegates and custom delegates. Hopefully it will give you enough code examples to make you a master in their usage.

C#

The Dependency Injection Jungle

This is a short overview of IoC (inversion of control), DI (dependency injection) and DI containers I was asked to do for my colleagues at work. In this post there is no code at all but lots of links and explanations.

C#

Simple use of Events

I'm working a lot with events and delegate at work these days so I thought I should take a better look at them and try to explain a simple usage of events as best I can

Xamarin

Running your Xamarin app on your IPhone without a physical Mac

If you are like me **this guide will help you get your Xamarin app to your IPhone** (and your testers IPhones) without needing to buy a Mac!

Tips&Tricks

Essential extensions for Visual Studio

Here are the extensions I feel I really can't be without. The Visual Studio marketplace contains a huge amount of extensions. Many of them are probably more useful to your work flow than the ones I can't live without.

Tips&Tricks

Safe casting with is

Just a short post on some pattern matching in C# 7 that my coworker pointed out to make code cleaner and easier to read. I had looked at pattern matching but not really used it exept in a switch statement.

Tips&Tricks

Basics of Git for Visual Studio TFVC users

This is just a small intro into the basics of Git using VSTS and Visual Studio. This is not a catch-all about git.

Testing

Unit testing private methods using the internal keyword

Should you test private methods or should you refactor your code in someway to make the testing easier? And if yes, then how?

Tips&Tricks

Visual Studio Tips & Tricks

Now I'm going to show you all the tricks I know when it comes to my favorite programming IDE, Visual Studio 2017. I hope you learn a trick or two.

Tips&Tricks

Decrease load and build times of large VS solutions

In this post I´m going to look at ways to decrease load and build times for large soulutions (400+ projects) in Visual Studio 2017