Category Archives: Essentials
C# 9 Series
In case you missed it, here is an aggregation of the five podcasts we’ve done on C# 9 recently.
.NET Maui Preview 3
Is here! Read David Ortinau’s blogpost
C For Fun
Old but gold… /** find the important things in Life, the Universe, and Everything*/ typedef short some; /* some things are short */typedef some very; /* some things are very short */ #define A /* The first letter of the … Continue reading
Jon Galloway on Visual Studio Mac
Jon joins us again, this time to talk about Visual Studio Mac and Maui!
Xamarin Best Practices
In a recent blog post, I showed the C# best practices we use at my current placement. Today, the Xamarin best practices: Xamarin 🐒 Best Practices The Do’s 🙌 👍 Catch XAML Errors Early Add the following attribute to code … Continue reading
Mads Torgersen! C# 9 & Beyond
Microsoft’s Mads Torgersen– Lead Designer of C# — talks about how to know when to use the new features in C# 8 and 9, and more. Photo credit: Jesse Liberty
Covid, False Positives & Bayesian Probability
This is a repost from 2009. It talks about breast cancer, but applies equally well to Covid testing, given the high percentage of false positives (not to mention the more worrisome false negatives). We simply are not wired well for … Continue reading
New site for my writing
I’ve created a site for my non-technical writing. Check it out.
MonkeyCache step by step
The amazing James Montemagno of Xamarin/Microsoft has done it again. He has created an incredibly simple cache, named MonkeyCache, that you can get up and running very quickly. In this post I will walk through setting up and using the … Continue reading
DataTemplateSelector
Suppose you have a collection of items and you want to display them in a ListView (Xamarin.Forms). The catch is that you want to change the display of each item depending on its state or some other code-based attributes. At … Continue reading
C# 9 Part 3 – Patterns
Jared Parsons – lead of the C# Compiler Team at Microsoft C# 9 Roadmap Jared – LinkedIn Welcome to C# 9
An Alert From the ViewModel
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 … Continue reading





































