Category Archives: Essentials

.NET MAUI – Forget Me Not – 7 – Unit Testing

Picking up where we left off, I want to add unit tests to my program. Now, I know, I should have been using unit tests all along. I have no excuse and hang my head in shame. To get started, … Continue reading

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Mads Torgersen & Dustin Campbell Part 2

Part 2 of my discussion with Mads and Dustin on what’s new in C# 11 with a focus on when application developers will use the new features.

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Favorite Fiction

I’ve started a tiny bookstore of my favorite books.

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C# 11 with Mads Torgersen & Dustin Campbell Part 1

Joined today by Mads and Dustin to discuss what’s new in C# 11 with a focus on when application developers will use the new features.

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.NET MAUI – Forget Me Not – Part 6

Building on the previous postings, today I want to discuss the magic of Dependency Injection (DI) Dependency Injection makes for cleaner and more testable code. We’ll get into testing and Mocks in a later blog post, but using DI allows … Continue reading

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.NET MAUI – Forget Me Not – Part 5

Building on the previous blog posts, here I’d like to illustrate how you can pass complex data from one page’s view model to another’s. Let’s assume we’ve tapped on the Buddies Icon on the tab bar and were taken to … Continue reading

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.NET MAUI – Forget Me Not – Part 4

This is part 4 in an ongoing series in which I will build and dissect a non-trivial app. For details, please see the first in this series. Part 3 ended with a teaser about the Preferences Page. As you’ll remember, … Continue reading

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.NET MAUI – Forget Me Not – Part 3

In the previous postings we looked at creating the basic app and adding a single, simple page. This post will really begin to get into it. We’re going to have a number of pages A page for you to enter … Continue reading

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.NET MAUI – Forget Me Not – Part 2

In Part 1 we created the skeleton of Forget Me Not (and explained what it is). Here in Part 2 we’ll add an about page. This is so easy that this will be a short post. Create the page Creating … Continue reading

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New Series: .NET MAUI — Forget Me Not

My buddy in Argentina, Roberto Juarez, and I have set out to create a real-world, non-trivial program using .NET MAUI. This is a learning exercise, and I’d like to invite you to join us. We anticipate that (eventually) this will … Continue reading

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A Dozen Utilities Every .NET Programmer Needs

Lists are always subjective, but it is helpful, I think, to exchange favorites now and again. Feel free to add yours to the comments. Here’s my list in no particular order Visual Studio 2022 – goes without saying that this … Continue reading

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 15 – SQLite

As an experienced XF programmer, you know that there are times you need a relational database, and SQLite has been the mobile db of choice for a very long time. In this post we’ll create a table in SQLite and … Continue reading

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