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About Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. Liberty is a Senior AI Engineer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and was a Team Lead and Senior Software Engineer for various corporations, a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a 21 year Microsoft MVP.

Learning .NET MAUI – Part 6

I’m going to start off where we were at the end of Part 5, but this time instead of creating two labels (for State and Zip) I’m going to create one label with MultiBinding: <Label VerticalOptions=”Center”> <Label.Text> <MultiBinding StringFormat=”{}{0} | … Continue reading →

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 5

When last we looked, we were returning a few countries. Let’s use ZipWise’s ability to look up a city name and give us all the info about all matching cities. We’ll then have fun with displaying that info. When I … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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.

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Learning .Net Maui – Posting 0

I’m going to start a serious attempt to upgrade my skills from Xamarin.Forms to Maui. I’m not sure how difficult this will be, but I’m starting with James Montemagno’s excellent video/code course for beginners. Unfortunate for me, and perhaps for … Continue reading →

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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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Missed Patents and other sad stories

I expect most people my age have had great ideas they never patented. I’ll list a few here just to make myself feel better and to encourage you to post yours (these are ideas that are already patented or can’t … Continue reading →

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James Montemagno on Maui!

I’m joined by James Montemagno, Principal Lead Program Manager for .NET Community at Microsoft, and the most enthusiastic person I know. James is the author of the .NET Presentations – .Net Maui In A Box, among many other things. You … 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.

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