.NET MAUI, Matter and Swift

I've recently been working with Matter a lot. Matter is a standard for smart home devices which can play together nicely across ecosystems. In .NET MAUI on iOS this means using the native MatterSupport and Matter frameworks which are part of the OS. The Matter framework is an Objective-C library, and you can use the standard approach of creating a binding library with Objective Sharpie to integrate with it.

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Reading between the log lines - building your own web analytics, Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Building an in-house web analytics system to understand user behaviour comes with quite a few challenges. This talk explores the technical hurdles of dealing with high-volu

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IOBluetooth for .NET Refreshed

Some time ago, I embarked on a binding library for the macOS IOBluetooth framework. This provides functionality for classic Bluetooth, Hands-free and Object Exchange functionality. It was built for Xamarin Mac and needed a big overhaul to support newer .NET versions. Today I've release a pre-release package for version 1.2. This is build with .NET 9.0 and 10.0. It has gone through a number of changes, to improve the API and its documentation.

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NFC support for all Uri types

In order to save a few bytes, there is a special mechanism used in Uri NFC tags where one byte is reserved to match with specific Uri prefixes. A value of zero means the following text contains the full Uri, a value of one means the Uri starts with " There are actually 35 of these constants in total. How this behaves depends on the platform - Android handles this for you and returns a valid Uri, but on iOS you receive the raw bytes and must use this initial byte and the rest of the data to reconstruct the full Uri.

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Bring Back Windows Phone

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Application Development for Windows Mobile 5.0 "Magneto" - Larry Lieberman - 2005/03

YouTube video by WalkingCat

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MVP for 2025

I'm really pleased and humbled to have been re-awarded the Microsoft MVP award for 2025. This year I've been awarded in the .NET category as my focus has been on .NET MAUI and .NET across multiple platforms. When I started on the MVP journey in 2003 it was for the .NET Compact Framework so I'm very lucky to have continued to use .NET from the simple Pocket PC through to todays phones and tablets. Congratulations to all the new and renewed MVPs, it is a great community to be a part of.

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Writing NFC Tags in .NET

I first added NFC code to 32feet.NET back in 2020. However, as other priorities came along it never got fully polished and released on NuGet. This year I finally got around to it and updated the code for .NET 8.0 as it had originally targeted Xamarin Forms. InTheHand.Nfc is available on NuGet and follows the API model of WebNFC - it supports reading and writing NDEF tags as this is the most widely used format for providing Urls, text and other custom data types.

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32feet – Bluetooth LE Device Discovery on iOS

When I created the InTheHand.BluetoothLE library I modeled the API on WebBluetooth as this gave a simple API surface but as it was designed to run within a browser sandbox some of the functionality is intentionally limited. For device discovery the API only provides a selection dialog. One of the most requested features early-on was the ability to do device discovery in code so that the results could be displayed directly in your own app UI.

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