Category Archives: Essentials
Learning .NET MAUI – Part 4
We’ve seen how to get a single zip code and display it in a series of labels. Let’s use a collection to take a look at how we might deal with that in MAUI. To get started, we’ll create a … Continue reading
Learning .NET MAUI – Part 3
Our app will spring to life in AppShell.xaml. We’ll be putting a few additional things there, but key for now is the ShellContent element As you can see there are three attributes: the Title, the ContentTemplate and the Route. The … Continue reading
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Learning .NET MAUI Part 2
As noted in part 0, I assume you are a Xamarin.Forms/C# programmer, familiar with Visual Studio. This series is not about converting your existing Xamarin.Forms apps; rather it is about converting your brain to MAUI. Since I’m learning as I’m going, your mileage … Continue reading
Learning .NET Maui Part 1
As noted in part 0, I assume you are a Xamarin.Forms/C# programmer, familiar with Visual Studio. This series is not about converting your existing Xamarin.Forms apps; rather it is about converting your brain to MAUI. Since I’m learning as I’m … Continue reading
Why Novice Programmers Can Be Confused
Programming is not easy. It is made particularly difficult by legitimate statements such as these from a Xamarin.Forms project: This can be followed by If the first line doesn’t kill you then the last ones will.
Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin on Agile and more…
Incredibly pleased to have one of the pioneers in Agile programming: Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin. Uncle Bob is known for, among other things, his SOLID principles of development. He is the author of the seminal book Clean Code along with … Continue reading
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.vsix with Mads Kristensen
.visx files are magic as far as I’m concerned. Mads takes us through their history and how they have become much easier to create. vsixcookbook.com Yet Another Podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts.
Visual Studio Champ
Part 1 of Being a Visual Studio Champ – is now on video! This is a 3 part conference streaming from Denmark and world-wide. vschamp.com Do not miss the next one on Add-ons with (among others) Mads Kristensen. April 27, … Continue reading
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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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