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Speaking at DevIntersections Spring 2018
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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
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Your First Mobile Application With Xamarin.Forms – a new Pluralsight Course
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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
Azure For Developers – Part 3: Deploying from Visual Studio
This is part 3 of an ongoing series on Azure for Developers, based on a set of forthcoming videos from LinkedIn Learning In Part 2 of this series, we looked at creating an application in the Azure Portal. More common is to … Continue reading
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Azure For Developers – Part 2: Your First App Service
This is part 2 of an ongoing series on Azure for Developers, based on a set of forthcoming videos from LinkedIn Learning In Part 1 of this series, we began to look at some of the ways to “chunk” the … Continue reading
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Learning Xamarin.Forms – Part 4: Layout and Views
This series begins with an overview here This series is based on my Pluralsight Course: Building Your First Mobile Application with Xamarin.Forms and Visual Studio 2017 Layout Xamarin.Forms has a number of “Layout” controls that can contain other controls (views) and help … Continue reading
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Azure For Developers – Part 1: Scratching the Surface
This is part 1 of an ongoing series on Azure for Developers, based on a set of forthcoming videos from LinkedIn Learning. Azure is big… …really big. There is so much to it, that getting started can be totally daunting. … 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