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Tag Archives: Xamarin
Display A Dialog From The ViewModel
In a previous blog post I discussed the problem of being in your ViewModel yet having to display a dialog to the user. You can’t interact with the page from the ViewModel, but you don’t want the logic of your … Continue reading
MVVM Ping Pong
Here’s a problem I come across more often than I would have expected. I want my buttons to use Commands in the View Model, but in response to the command, I have to interact with the user in a way … Continue reading
Xamarin Quick Hit: Dimming a button to indicate it is disabled
I often have to dim a button to indicate that it is disabled, and I want to do that via data binding.
Visual Studio for Mac – my newest Pluralsight Course
At the core of effective application development is a thorough knowledge of Visual Studio Mac. In this course, Visual Studio for Mac, you will learn how to work with VS Mac to produce enterprise-quality software. First, you will explore the … Continue reading
App Center Distribution
In my previous posts I showed how to get started with App Center and how to build an app on App Center. In this post, I will demonstrate how to distribute your shiny new app to your alpha or beta testers. … Continue reading
Building Your App On App Center
In my previous (and first) blog post on App Center I talked about getting started, adding the SDK to your code, and looking at Analytics and Crash reporting. In this post I’d like to discuss building your app on App … Continue reading
Building A Generic SQLite Repository
In a recent project, I found myself needing multiple, seemingly unrelated databases. It was crazy to copy and paste the code for such basic operations as getting all the data, etc., so the obvious alternative was a generic repository, and … Continue reading
Getting a PDF from a remote host to a Xamarin.Forms Application
It is fairly easy to display a PDF file that is local to your phone. For example, see this article from Xamarin.com. A bit trickier is to get a PDF from a server and then to display it. Here’s how … Continue reading
Learning Xamarin.Forms – Part 5: ListView
In Part 4 of this series we created a new Master/Detail project. In this part, we’re going to zero in on one view on one page… but what a view it is! This series is based on my Pluralsight Course: Building Your … Continue reading
Learning Xamarin.Forms – Part 3: Navigation
This series begins with an overview here In Part 2 we considered MVVM This series is based on my Pluralsight Course: Building Your First Mobile Application with Xamarin.Forms and Visual Studio 2017 Navigation Just about any serious mobile application will have … Continue reading
Learning Xamarin.Forms – Part 2: MVVM
I think many would argue that discussing MVVM is premature in part 2 of a discussion on Xamarin.Forms. My counter argument is that it is important to start out with best practices, and MVVM is the pattern of choice for … Continue reading
Learning Xamarin.Forms – Part 1 – Overview
About this series This post begins a series in which I will introduce Xamarin.Forms, put it in context and then teach all you need to know to go from absolute beginner to intermediate/advanced Xamarin.Forms programmer. I assume no prior mobile … Continue reading
