Category Archives: XAML
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
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Xamarin Quick Hit: Dimming a button to indicate it is disabled
I often have to dim a button to indicate that it is disabled, and I want to do that via data binding.
Creating A Generic Report in Xamarin.Forms
I recently had a client who wanted to create simple reports that consisted of a variable number of columns, followed by a “more” button that takes you to a page with the full details. The problem was that they didn’t … Continue reading
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MVVM Light and Xamarin.Forms
Laurent Bugnion is extremely well known and respected in the developer community. He is probably most famous for the creation of MVVM Light. Laurent works as Senior Global Azure Advocate for Microsoft after almost 10 years spent working for IdentityMine … Continue reading
Live Webinar: Building Your First Mobile Application with Xamarin.Forms
Click here to go to sign-up page Get started with mobile programming using Xamarin.Forms. Join me at our interactive webinar, Q&A and demo. I will: Help you get started with Xamarin.Forms Compare Xamarin.Forms with Xamarin Native Demo Xamarin.Forms layouts and … Continue reading
Learning Xamarin.Forms – Part 5: ListView
In Part 4 of this series we created a new Master/Detail project. In this part, we’re going to zero in on one view on one page… but what a view it is! This series is based on my Pluralsight Course: Building Your … Continue reading
Effects with XAML
In this excellent article, Nish Anil describes how to modify controls using Effects – a lighter weight approach than creating custom renderers. His examples, however, are all in C#, so I decided to translate them into XAML. To begin I … Continue reading
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Navigate and then send data back with Xamarin.Forms and MVVM Light
…By Jesse Liberty & Eric Grover The Challenge : Fetch Navigate to a second page, present an Editor (multi-line entry) and then send the data back to the original page (and navigate back at the same time). Behaviors, Commands and … Continue reading
52 Weeks of Xamarin: Week 15 – Creating an iOS Application Part 1
In the previous two posts in this series, I demonstrated how to create a simple to-do list using Xamarin.Forms. In this and the next post, I’ll show how to create pretty much the same program for iOS using Xamarin native code. … Continue reading
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XAML for Xamarin
My newest Pluralsight course, XAML for Xamarin.Forms is now available. In this course you learn everything you need to know to achieve expertise in XAML to get the most out of Xamarin.Forms. The major topics include Getting Started Introduction to … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #132: FalafelCon Roundtable
Talking with J. Tower, Josh Eastburn and Venkata Koppaka of Falafel Software about their upcoming presentations at FalafelCon. We also discuss working remotely, software, AngularJS, Xamarin and much more. Falafel Software FalafelCon Falafel Blogs HipChat GoToMeeting 48 States Project Special … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast #128: The Legendary Charles Petzold
Charles Petzold, legendary author of Programming Windows talks about DirectX and his new gig at Xamarin where he writes about Xamarin Forms, MVVM and much more. Charles Petzold’s site Xamarin Xamarin Forms White Paper on Xamarin Show Me The Xaml … Continue reading
