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
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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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.
.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
.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
.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
.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
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
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
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