Category Archives: Essentials
Jon Galloway – Yet Another Podcast
Jon Galloway comes on Yet Another Podcast to talk about… well, a lot of stuff. ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs .NET Upgrade Assistant Upgrading from ASP.NET MVC 5 to .NET 6 Upgrading Windows Forms to .NET 6 Upgrading WPF to .NET … Continue reading
Advanced Databinding Part 4 – Binding .
In this post we will examine one of the aspects of advanced databinding that many people find confusing. Binding . (that is, Binding dot). However, it is surprisingly easy to explain. Binding . allows you to access the entire binding … Continue reading
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C# 10 & Documentation: Bill Wagner
Bill Wagner joins us once again, this time to talk about C# 10 and the evolving Microsoft. documentation. Check back here for links but I just couldn’t wait to publish this.
Advanced Databinding Part 3 – Null or Missing Values
You want to bind to a collection of values and display each in turn, but it is possible that some of the objects in the list have null properties, or some properties are missing altogether. You can handle this with … Continue reading
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Advanced Databinding: Part 0 – BASICS
In the ugly old days, if you had data that you wanted to display you would put the data into a variable and then write some code to copy that data to a control on your page. If the data … Continue reading
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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