Learn Swift language: The C# Way — Vidyasagar MSC

Programming languages provide a way to communicate with a computer through notational instructions.Swift and C# are High-Level Languages commonly categorized under multi-paradigm and Compiled Programming languages. They not only fall into the same category of programming languages but also have many syntactical features in common.Due to this syntactical resemblance, C# developers can easily adapt Swift […] …

Xamarin C# binding of a Cocoapods iOS SDK using Sharpie — Vidyasagar MSC

After my endeavor with Xamarin.Android Bindings and Xamarin Apps with IBM MobileFirst, , I received an interesting requirement from my colleague Chethan. He wants Xamarin C# binding of our IBM MobileFirst Foundation Objective-C APIs. I thought this is an opportunity to try something new and accepted the challenge. I immediately started exploring to find something …

Xamarin & VS 2015 : Break the error message into Chunks.

No project is good without a bug and no build is good without an error. Sometimes, a smallest change can fix a major error. We may take more time to find the smallest change, as we concentrate more on the technical side of the error than the logical side of it. The fix for your error …

Visual Studio : What’s new in 2015 debugging

Microsoft Visual studio as an IDE has matured over the years and now as a developer we are eagerly awaiting release of Visual Studio 2015 later this year. In this post,i will be talking about what's good in Visual studio 2015 CTP 6 (released on Feb 23rd) for debugging and profiling your code.I will be …

Functional Vs Imperative language paradigms

These days, i am in deep love with Microsoft's F# language and Apple's Swift language.F# on one side has picked the good parts from Functional languages like ML and oCaml + Imperative languages / Object-Oriented language like C#. Swift on the other end is a multi-paradigm languages picking language ideas from Objective-C, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, …

C#,Web API : HTTP GET with a request body

Introduction : "This is impossible !!!!" . GET verb can take request parameters only from the query strings (name/value pairs) and it has a limitation in length. If the URL is too long, the web server fails with the 414 Request-URI Too Long HTTP status code. The only  alternative to pass a complex object or to …

C#,F# – What’s New in Visual Studio 2015 Preview

What's New In C# 6.0 C# 6.0 adds about a dozen bite-sized new features to C#, all aimed at making your code cleaner and clearer. Instead of introducing new concepts, each feature makes a common coding pattern simpler, and removes boilerplate to let the intent of the code stand out. The video takes a quick tour …

Gaming , C# : Come..Fall in Love with CocosSharp

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. -Richard Buckminster FullerReality Check Every game development engine or framework has its own bottlenecks and difficulties.Especially, when it comes to 2D game development,the difficulties increase.You have to take care of performance,mobile device hardware,device resolution etc.There …