Author Archives: Jesse Liberty
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
Open a dialog from VM using Events
This is a quick summary of how I open a dialog box from the view model. There are other ways to do this (as noted in previous postings), but this is easy, easy to maintain and puts most of the … 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,
Xamarin Coding Standards
There are many best practices in writing Xamarin. Here are some that we’ve canonized where I work… 👍 By convention the identifier for the ViewModel is vm 😠 Do not assign more than one page to a view model. Generally … Continue reading
C# Coding Standards
Let’s face it, most coding standards are arbitrary. The key to a successful project, however, is not which standards you follow, but that you are consistent. Here is a partial list of the C# coding standards my team uses and … Continue reading
Shawn Wildermuth
Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early ‘80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2003, he’s also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ClientDev Insider. You may have … Continue reading
Mads on C# 8 Design
Microsoft’s Mads Torgersen– Lead Designer of C# — talks about creating programming languages and what’s new in C# 8. Do not miss this one! Overview of C# 8.0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-8 The wonderful bridge toll tutorial on pattern matching: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tutorials/pattern-matching Brand new blog post … Continue reading
C# 8 Nullable Types
I recently released a two-part course on C# 8. The first part is for beginning programmers. The second part is for intermediate to advanced programmers. This post is the first in a series that focuses on the new features in … Continue reading
Jon Galloway!
Microsoft’s Jon Galloway talks about the .NET Foundation and about .NET Core. As always with him, an amazing conversation. .Net Foundation