Category Archives: Essentials
Xamarin Best Practices
In a recent blog post, I showed the C# best practices we use at my current placement. Today, the Xamarin best practices: Xamarin 🐒 Best Practices The Do’s 🙌 👍 Catch XAML Errors Early Add the following attribute to code … Continue reading
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Mads Torgersen! C# 9 & Beyond
Microsoft’s Mads Torgersen– Lead Designer of C# — talks about how to know when to use the new features in C# 8 and 9, and more. Photo credit: Jesse Liberty
Covid, False Positives & Bayesian Probability
This is a repost from 2009. It talks about breast cancer, but applies equally well to Covid testing, given the high percentage of false positives (not to mention the more worrisome false negatives). We simply are not wired well for … Continue reading
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I’ve created a site for my non-technical writing. Check it out.
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MonkeyCache step by step
The amazing James Montemagno of Xamarin/Microsoft has done it again. He has created an incredibly simple cache, named MonkeyCache, that you can get up and running very quickly. In this post I will walk through setting up and using the … Continue reading
DataTemplateSelector
Suppose you have a collection of items and you want to display them in a ListView (Xamarin.Forms). The catch is that you want to change the display of each item depending on its state or some other code-based attributes. At … Continue reading
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C# 9 Part 3 – Patterns
Jared Parsons – lead of the C# Compiler Team at Microsoft C# 9 Roadmap Jared – LinkedIn Welcome to C# 9
An Alert From the ViewModel
Quite often we want to send an alert from the view model, but you can only do so from the view. We’ve tackled this problem in the past but we think there is room for a simplified and clear step … Continue reading
Code Snippet – By request
Code Snippets can save you from repetitive (boring) tasks. Visual Studio comes with a great many code snippets, perhaps the most often used is ctor which creates an empty constructor. You can also create your own. Here is one I … Continue reading
Picker within Listview
We needed to put a picker inside a list view in a Xamarin.Forms app, but we wanted to be notified when one of the pickers changed and be able to get the value from the picker (and know which one … Continue reading
Xamarin.Forms Shell
Focus on Xamarin.Forms Shell – the new way to create great Xamarin.Forms applications. We go in-depth with Shane Neuville, a Senior Developer on the Xamarin.Forms team. Shell Forms IntroductionProject BoardXaminalsXappyShell Login SampleGastropods
Mark Price – C# & .NET Core
Mark Price, author of C# 8 and .NET Core 3.0 Modern Cross Platform Development talks about… well about everything .NET A fantastic exploration of what is new in C#, .NET Core, Blazor, and much more,