Month: February 2017

An error occurs with MobileCenter for Xamarin iOS

Enrico

I added Microsoft Mobile Center to my project after creating the app there. On MobileCenter documentation you can know the Install Identifier for your application (MobileCenter documentation is here). System.Guid installId = MobileCenter.InstallId; This function is working fine if you have Android or iOS 10. With iOS less than 10 an error occurs: Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx). and the StackTrace is similar to at System.Guid+GuidResult.SetFailure (System.Guid+ParseFailureKind failure, System.String failureMessageID, System.Object failureMessageFormatArgument, System.String failureArgumentName, System.Exception innerException) [0x00030] in /Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.iOS.framework/Versions/10.4.0.123/src/mono/mcs/class/referencesource/mscorlib/system/guid.cs:198 \n at System.Guid+GuidResult.SetFailure (System.Guid+ParseFailureKind failure, System.String failureMessageID)…

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This is iPhone 8

Enrico

The hardware that allows the iPhone 8‘s rumored facial recognition capability could consist of a "revolutionary" new camera system for its front-facing camera. The report follows related rumors of Apple augmenting or ditching its Touch ID fingerprint scanner in favor of iris or facial recognition technology, fueled by its acquisition of Israeli facial recognition startup RealFace. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 — yep, that Galaxy Note 7 — was among the first phones to come equipped with an iris scanner.

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99.6 percent of new smartphones run Android or iOS

Enrico

The latest smartphone figures from Gartner are out, and they paint an extremely familiar picture. Between them, Android and iOS accounted for 99.6 percent of all smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2016. This duopoly has been the norm for a while now (in the second quarter of 2015 this figure was 96.8 percent), but it’s always impressive — and slightly terrifying — to see how Google and Apple continue to wring the last decimal point drops of market share from global smartphone users. Of the 432 million smartphones…

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Happy 15th Birthday .NET!

Enrico

Today marks the 15th anniversary since .NET debuted to the world. On February 13th, 2002, the first version of .NET was released as part of Visual Studio.NET. It seems just like yesterday when Microsoft was building its “Next Generation Windows Services” and unleashed a new level of productivity with Visual Studio.NET. Since the beginning, the .NET platform has allowed developers to quickly build and deploy robust applications, starting with Windows desktop and web server applications in 2002. You got an entire managed framework for building distributed Windows applications, ASP.NET was…

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Visual Studio 2017 is coming on March 7

Enrico

Join us at 8:00 AM PST on March 7 for a two-day online event celebrating the launch of our latest version as well as 20 years of Visual Studio. Watch the live stream featuring Julia Liuson, Brian Harry, Miguel de Icaza, and Scott Hanselman as they share the newest innovations in Visual Studio, .NET, Xamarin, Azure, and more. After the keynote, Microsoft engineers will lead interactive technical demo sessions to help you get the most out of Visual Studio 2017 and the rest of our tools and platform. On March…

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