Display version number in Power Apps
There’s lots of posts on this, but they seem to mostly point to something other than what I was looking for. Power Apps maintains versions every time we edit the app, so how do we do that?
Azure SQL password rotation script using PowerShell
We’re all aware of the importance of having strong passwords and changing them from time to time. Recently I made an effort to automate the process of updating my SQL Azure password using PowerShell.
PendingIntent on S+ devices
One of my Android apps includes a widget that auto-updates both at a fixed interval (AlarmService) and when tapping on the widget. In the past this was accomplished with something like this (C# Xamarin): This has worked for years just fine, not realizing that S+ devices (or anything targeting version 31 or above) on Android requires a PendingIntentFlag value in that GetBroadcast call. A brief search returned how “easy” this is, just add in a flag for PendingIntentFlags.UpdateCurrent or PendingIntentFlags.Mutable…
Azure DevOps Error MAUI0000: System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file ‘D:\a\1\s\obj\Release\net6.0-android\resizetizer\r\drawable\icon.png’ because it is being used by another process.
This was driving me nuts for a few days, and unfortunately there’s very little documentation online on .Net MAUI…I’m hoping because it’s still relatively new. Don’t get me started on how frustrating both .Net MAUI and Xamarin can be…I’m sure you already know.
My latest project – OAQ
Several years ago I took a Raspberry Pi 2 B+ and turned it into SLRPi – the SETI listener for Raspberry Pi. It was a custom build of Debian Jessie and a custom build of BOINC for the SETI project. You can read more about that effort here. Earlier this year it was announced that this phase of the project was ending. After 20 years of collecting data it was time for them to do some data mining and look…