Jared Parsons – lead of the C# Compiler Team at Microsoft
Jared Parsons – lead of the C# Compiler Team at Microsoft
Quite often we want to send an alert from the view model, but you can only do so from the view. We’ve tackled this problem in the past but we think there is room for a simplified and clear step by step explanation.
Continue readingCode Snippets can save you from repetitive (boring) tasks. Visual Studio comes with a great many code snippets, perhaps the most often used is ctor which creates an empty constructor.
You can also create your own. Here is one I use a lot. It creates something that looks like this:
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We needed to put a picker inside a list view in a Xamarin.Forms app, but we wanted to be notified when one of the pickers changed and be able to get the value from the picker (and know which one changed).
The complete source for this example is on GitHub.
My first impulse was to use EventToCommand, but that became a rabbit hole, and thanks to Lance and others on the Xamarin Community Forums, and email, I was redirected to a simpler approach that I will explain here.
We begin with a DataTemplate that we will use with our ListView.
Continue readingThis is a quick summary of how I open a dialog box from the view model. There are other ways to do this (as noted in previous postings), but this is easy, easy to maintain and puts most of the logic in the view model.
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There are many best practices in writing Xamarin. Here are some that we’ve canonized where I work…
Let’s face it, most coding standards are arbitrary. The key to a successful project, however, is not which standards you follow, but that you are consistent.
Here is a partial list of the C# coding standards my team uses and advocates. Most of these are industry-wide conventions and thus using them will ensure that your code is easily readable by people who are not you. (Many thanks to Adam for letting me post this here)
public class ClientActivity
{
public void ClearStatistics()
{
//...
}
public void CalculateStatistics()
{
//...
}
}
Why: consistent with the Microsoft’s .NET Framework and easy to read.
public class UserLog
{
public void Add(LogEvent logEvent)
{
var itemCount = logEvent.Items.Count;
// ...
}
}
Continue readingWhy: consistent with the Microsoft’s .NET Framework and easy to read.
