Chris Miller’s 5th Blog

Chris Miller

I am a Microsoft MVP, a Pluralsight Author, a Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer for iOS and Android, and the leader of the Tech Valley .NET User Group.

Running the iOS simulators after updating to Xcode 14

2 minute read

So Apple updated Xcode on my Macbook from 13.4.1 to 14. I wasn’t paying much attention to the prompts or even the version numbers. After doing so, I could n...

A quick check to see if the user’s locale is metric or imperial

less than 1 minute read

While working on a demo mobile app for a course, I needed to know if the units of measurement on the app would be in Imperial units or Metric units. Since I’...

A failed MakeValid call in SQL Server

1 minute read

We hit this strange bug in SQL Server earlier in the year. A single SQL Statement would just kill the connection. It would kill it 100% in any version of SQL...

Moved the blog from WordPress to Jekyll

9 minute read

First post under the new regime.

Resolving the .NET MAUI “VersionCode 1.0 is invalid. It must be an integer value.” error when updating Visual Studio 2022 Preview

3 minute read

I hit the “VersionCode 1.0 is invalid” error with .NET MAUI and resolved it.