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Every Xamarin.Forms view has an accompanying renderer for each platform that creates an instance of a native control. When a View is rendered on the specific platform the ViewRenderer class is instantiated. The process for doing this is as follows: Create a Xamarin.Forms custom control. Consume t...

Every .NET library and programming language utilize a set of elementary data types like System.Int32, System.Object, System.Type or System.Uri. These data types form the base of all other structures including all custom written .NET libraries. All these types are hosted in a base library, which is...

Virtual Directory / Nested Application with Views Pitfall If you're going to be using Express to render views using a View Engine, you'll need to pass the virtualDirPath value in to your views `res.render('index', { virtualDirPath: virtualDirPath });` The reason for doing this is to make yo...

AutoIt is a lightweight freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It is especially useful for generating keystrokes and reading information from native Windows controls. Library functions are included for the automation of Microsoft Off...

Since all Web Components must be self-contained, including all their dependencies, duplicated dependency import would quickly become an issue with script includes. Thus, Web Components (and, by extension, Polymer) use W3C HTML imports for managing component dependencies. These imported HTML files ca...

What is UTF-8? UTF-8 is an encoding, which is variable-length and uses 8-bit code units - that's why UTF-8. In the internet UTF-8 is dominant encoding (before 2008 ASCII was, ehich also can handle any Unicode code point.). Is UTF-8 the same as Unicode? "Unicode" isn't an encoding - i...

Monkey Patching is a way of modifying and extending classes in Ruby. Basically, you can modify already defined classes in Ruby, adding new methods and even modifying previously defined methods. Monkey patching is often used to change the behavior of existing ruby code, from gems for instance. For...

About: Nancy is a lightweight framework for building HTTP based services in .Net based off of the Sinatra framework that exists for Ruby. It is designed to allow for handling of several different types of HTTP Requests and provides a simple way to return a response with a small amount of code. ...

Oracle produces a variety of exceptions. You may be surprised how tedious it can be to have your code stop with some unclear message. To improve your PL/SQL code's ability to get fixed easily it is necessary to handle exceptions at the lowest level. Never hide an exception "under the carpet&quo...