Author Archives: Jesse Liberty
An Alert From the ViewModel
Quite often we want to send an alert from the view model, but you can only do so from the view. We’ve tackled this problem in the past but we think there is room for a simplified and clear step … Continue reading
Code Snippet – By request
Code Snippets can save you from repetitive (boring) tasks. Visual Studio comes with a great many code snippets, perhaps the most often used is ctor which creates an empty constructor. You can also create your own. Here is one I … Continue reading
Latest Video: Xamarin.Forms
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What’s Coming in C# 9 Part 1
Jared Parsons – lead of the C# Compiler Team at Microsoft C# 9 Roadmap Jared – LinkedIn
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
