Xamarin.Forms App Push Notifications with Azure Notification Hubs

Rukesh Shrestha .NET, Articles, Azure, Cloud, Mobile, Tutorial, Xamarin 2 Comments

Push notifications are a vital feature for todayโ€™s enterprise mobile applications. Why are they so important? They allow the business to communicate with its users without requiring the application to be in an open state.

Xamarin.Forms allows developers to create user interfaces in XAML with code behind it in C#, which then renders as native controls on iOS and Android platforms.

In this blog, we go through a step-by-step tutorial for setting up and configuring push notifications on Xamarin.Forms applications using Azure Notification Hubs. Let’s dive right in.

Demystifying Enterprise Cloud Modernization

White Paper: Demystifying Enterprise Cloud Modernization

Keyhole Software Architecture, Articles, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Keyhole Creations, Modernization Leave a Comment

Many IT budgets are consumed by maintaining existing applications and resources, and getting out from under the weight of these existing applications can be dauntingโ€”schedule is king, and making time to address modernization comes at the expense of current business needs. However, as the business world moves into the digital space to prepare to meet the next generation of customers and to compete globally, organizations canโ€™t manage their applications in the same way as they have in the pastโ€”they must take them to the next level.ย 

Cloud technologies provide many of the building blocks to help businesses achieve these goals and prepare themselves for the future. This white paper is a solution-agnostic resource to help you understand enterprise cloud modernization and migration and to help you decide which strategy is right for your business. Are your applications ready for the new tomorrow?

Azure Severless: Functions and Logic Apps

Azure Serverless: Functions and Logic Apps

Dallas Monson Architecture, Articles, Azure, Cloud, Consulting, Development Technologies & Tools 1 Comment

This is a perfect opportunity for us to explore cloud serverless offerings as the ultimate contact-less development option. While COVID-19 continues to make face-to-face collaboration an impossibility, cloud-based applications and workloads provide a well-defined method for remote development and project deployment. Serverless offerings, like Azure Functions and Azure Logic Apps, take this to the next level while allowing us, as developers, to focus only on our application functionality and not the backing infrastructure or uptime of servers. These serverless solutions will be the focus of this blog.

Keyhole Achieves Microsoft Gold Competency

Keyhole Earns Microsoft Gold Competency Status

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Attention: This article was published over 6 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.We are excited to announce that Keyhole Software has achieved the Microsoft Gold Competency status. Joining this elite tier of Microsoft Partners signifies that …

Azure Web Apps in Docker Containers – Part 1

Joe Sciara Architecture, Articles, Azure, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, Docker, Tutorial Leave a Comment

So you want to host a web application on Azure with minimal overhead, but how is this done? Azure makes it possible by running an App Service using Docker containers. Setting up an App Service is simple and can be accomplished with a few steps.

In this blog, Iโ€™ll explain the steps necessary to generate a Docker image in Azure. Then, we will deploy a web application based on an image we generate. We host the application with the following steps:
1. Create a Container Registry
2. Build a Docker image
3. Create a Web App