Category Archives: Essentials
Advanced Databinding Part 2: Converters
En Español There are times when you need to bind to a source but the source is not in the right format or otherwise needs to be manipulated. For example, suppose, as we’ll show below, that you have a text … Continue reading
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Advanced Data Binding Part 1
This is the first in a series on advanced data binding. In this series we will look at: using value converters with binding, relative binding, the {Binding .} and {Binding self} constructs, and more. We hope to release one of … Continue reading
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The Miracle of IQueryAttributable
This knocked me out. Let’s say you have a value in one view model, and when you navigate to another page you want that value in the new page’s view model. Enter IQueryAttributable. (tough to say, even tougher to spell) … Continue reading
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Lance McCarthy
Lance McCarthy talking about Maui, VS2022, community contributions and much more. Referenced sites and source: Twitter – https://twitter.com/lancewmccarthy Blog – https://dvlup.com/ Resources (see descriptions below) 1 https://github.com/LanceMcCarthy/CommonHelpers 2 https://github.com/LanceMcCarthy/DevOpsExamples 3 https://github.com/LanceMcCarthy/MediaFileManager 4 Bonus https://github.com/LanceMcCarthy/Flusher Tools GitKracken | Legendary Git Resource 1 – CommonHelpers That is the CommonHelpers NuGet … Continue reading
Visual Studio 2022!!
Mads Kristensen talks about all the goodness in Visual Studio 2022
A Dozen Utilities I Use Every Day
Here are 12 utilities I use every day. They are in no particular order. I spend most of my day programming in Visual Studio 2019. #0 – Resharper. I’m so ambivalent about this add on for Visual Studio. On the … Continue reading
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Get Git in 45 Minutes
Presentation to the St. Pete’s user group Note, discussion starts 9 minutes in.
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Mads Torgersen On C# 10
Mads comes back on show 200 (!) to talk about all things C# 10, which will be released November 2021.
Tables Turned II – Unhandled Exception Podcast
Dan Clarke interviewed James World and me about Git and my new book, Git For Programmers. The podcast is here.
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Git! Turn the tables
In this podcast the tables are turned, and I’m interviewed by Kate Strachni of Datacated .
Don’t Miss Mads Torgersen on C# 8 and 9
A few weeks back we had Mads Torgersen on Yet Another Podcast. It is too good and too important to miss.
Interactive Rebase
Following along from my previous blog post on rebasing, this post will cover interactive rebasing. The first thing to know about interactive rebasing is that as far as the programmer is concerned it has nothing to do with rebasing. The … Continue reading
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