Category Archives: Programming
Learning AI
Very excited to say that I have purchased 3-4 books in preparation for the Azure AI 900 certification from Microsoft. I will be creating another series here, distilling down what I learn, even while we keep the API series going. … Continue reading
Posted in AI, ChatGPT, Essentials, Programming, Vibe Coding
Tagged AI, Certification
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Azure Functions & Durable Functions
Creating the Project with CoPilot As part of the API tutorials we decided we needed a Database with two tables: Book and Author. Books will join Author and there can be as many authors as we want. Rather than writing … Continue reading
Posted in AI, API, C#, CoPilot, Durable Functions, Essentials, Learning, Programming
Tagged AI, Bookstore, CoPilot
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Scott Hunter
Conversation with Scott Hunter (VP Microsoft) about Visual Studio, CoPilot Agents, MCP, Azure, Azure Functions and much more. Watch on YouTube Note: ZenCastr ate Scott’s links, but you can get started at https://learn.microsoft.com
Posted in Azure, C#, CoPilot, Learning, Microsoft, Programming, Tools and Utilities, Visual Studio, Visual Studio
Tagged YapCast
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Mastering C# – Pattern Matching
Microsoft has a wonderful tutorial on pattern matching, in which you model a lock (to raise or lower a ship when there would otherwise be a waterfall). They model the two doors and the water level. While their example is … Continue reading
Posted in C# 12, Mini-Tutorial, Programming
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Modern C# Part 2 – Accessing via Implicit Index
Until now, if you wanted to access the last item in a list you had to use a slightly cumbersome syntax. C# 13 introduces the “hat” operator (^) where ^1 is the last element in your collection, ^2 is the … Continue reading
David Ortinau on .NET MAUI
David Ortinau, Program Manager .NET and voice of .NET MAUI discusses MAUI as a platform, Blazor Hybrid, Community Toolkits, as well as what’s on the road map for .NET MAUI.
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
I’m Back! With Xamarin.Forms Programming
It has been a few months since I’ve posted, and I hope you missed me as much as I missed you. To re-launch this blog, I’ve decided to provide a series on Xamarin.Forms programming. If you prefer to learn by … Continue reading
Posted in Essentials, MVVM, Programming, Xamarin, XAML
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Learn to Program (From Scratch!)
John Papa and I have just released our new Play by Play on Learning To Program. If you know of someone who has wanted to learn to code but didn’t know where to start, this might be a great option.
Posted in Essentials, Learning, Programming
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Yet Another Podcast #181 – Matthew Robbins on MFractor
Matthew Robbins is a Xamarin and Microsoft MVP and he is the creator of MFractor, a mobile-first utility for Visual Studio Mac. Our site: https://www.mfractor.com/ Documentation: http://docs.mfractor.com/ Localisation Tooling Blog: https://www.mfractor.com/blogs/learn/localising-your-xamarin-forms-apps Notice: Yet Another Podcast listeners can use the following discount code for 10% … Continue reading
Posted in Podcast, Product Reviews, Programming, Recommendations, Tools and Utilities, Xamarin
Tagged YapCast
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C# 7 First Look
Very proud to announce the release of my newest Pluralsight course: C# 7 First Look.
Posted in C#, Pluralsight, Programming
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File Persistence in Xamarin.Forms Apps
The goal is to persist data to a file. You might do this for any number of reasons, including storing away user-preferences or, in this case, storing away data to protect you from a crash. In this simple application we … Continue reading
Posted in Essentials, Patterns & Skills, Programming, Xamarin
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