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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 …

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 …

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!

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 …

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 …

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.

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?

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 …

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

My old developer blog (in icelandic)

I have not been very an active bloger last couple of years. The reason for that was mostly my young kids (now 3 and 6) and the lack of energy for …

Fired up for my first day at the new job!

Well… that was a great start at a new company! Just got the call from my boss telling me to hold off coming to work my first day …

My new keyboard

I just got a new version of a Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard/mouse. The keyboard and the mouse come as a pair where you can´t opt-out to just the …

A little about me and this blog

Before really starting this blog I would like to introduce my self and what this (and previous) blog is about. Update: My old blog I’m a 46 year …

New blog

I have decided to make the move from my old blog sturla.simnet.is to something newer and easier to manage. Update: My old blog My earlier blog was …