Author Archives: Jesse Liberty
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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Yet Another Podcast #156 – MVVM Light with Laurent Bugnion
Laurent works as Senior Director for IdentityMine, one of the leading companies (and Gold Partner) for Microsoft technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation, Xamarin, Windows Store, Windows Phone, XBOX and generally User Experience. He is based in Zurich Switzerland. … Continue reading
C# 6 From Scratch Released On Pluralsight
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Xamarin.Forms: Creating a sliding drawer with behaviors, messages and MVVM Light
Sliding Drawers have become a popular, almost required form of navigation in phone applications. There are libraries that will do this for you, but you can use Xamarin.Forms to create what you want without too much effort. Okay, with quite … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast 155 – Humanitarian Toolbox with Bill Wagner
Bill Wagner is a Microsoft Senior Content Developer creating documents and learning materials for developers learning the .net platform. He is also the president and on the board of directors of the Humanitarian Toolbox. Bill spoke with me about what … 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
View Model Page Navigation with MVVM Light
When you move from code behind to a View Model (as you should, if only to make testing easier) certain challenges arise, such as: how do I navigate to another page? Fortunately, MVVM Light provides a Messaging bus, that makes … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #154 – Dan Wahlin on Typescript and Angular 2
Dan Wahlin founded Wahlin Consulting which provides consulting and training services on Web technologies. He has also published over 10 developer courses on Pluralsight.com and Udemy.com including the new Docker for Web Developers course. Dan is a Docker Captain, Google … Continue reading
TypeScript and Angular 2
After attending ng-conf a couple weeks ago, and taking a terrific workshop with John Papa and Dan Wahlin, and spending time talking with them and with Ward Bell (who is responsible for the Angular 2 documentation), I’ve decided to go all-in with … Continue reading
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Global Resources in Xamarin.Forms
First, when I checked Google, all I could find was articles saying this can’t be done. Humbug. Thanks to Roger Peters and jFarrell I got it done (well, they did and then I did, but now you will). Here are the … Continue reading
Reactive
Many web programmers, especially Angular programmers are turning their attention to Reactive programming. While I don’t know of any books on ReactiveJS (yet) I can shamelessly mention that I do have a book on Reactive Extensions and LINQ. NB: … Continue reading
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Video of Evolve 16 Presentation on TDD
Pleased and proud to say that Xamarin has posted a video of my presentation on Test Driven Development on their site. Evolve 16 was an incredible event, and it was tremendous fun to present there.
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