Author Archives: Jesse Liberty

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. His latest book, Building APIs with .NET will be released early in 2025. Liberty is a Senior SW Engineer for CNH and he was 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 Microsoft MVP.

C# 10 & Documentation: Bill Wagner

Bill Wagner joins us once again, this time to talk about C# 10 and the evolving Microsoft. documentation. Check back here for links but I just couldn’t wait to publish this.

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Advanced Databinding Part 3 – Null or Missing Values

You want to bind to a collection of values and display each in turn, but it is possible that some of the objects in the list have null properties, or some properties are missing altogether. You can handle this with … Continue reading

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Advanced Databinding Part 2: Converters

En Español There are times when you need to bind to a source but the source is not in the right format or otherwise needs to be manipulated. For example, suppose, as we’ll show below, that you have a text … Continue reading

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Advanced Data Binding Part 1

This is the first in a series on advanced data binding. In this series we will look at: using value converters with binding, relative binding, the {Binding .} and {Binding self} constructs, and more. We hope to release one of … Continue reading

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The Miracle of IQueryAttributable

This knocked me out. Let’s say you have a value in one view model, and when you navigate to another page you want that value in the new page’s view model. Enter IQueryAttributable. (tough to say, even tougher to spell) … Continue reading

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Lance McCarthy

Lance McCarthy talking about Maui, VS2022, community contributions and much more. Referenced sites and source: Twitter – https://twitter.com/lancewmccarthy Blog – https://dvlup.com/ Resources (see descriptions below) 1 https://github.com/LanceMcCarthy/CommonHelpers 2 https://github.com/LanceMcCarthy/DevOpsExamples 3 https://github.com/LanceMcCarthy/MediaFileManager 4 Bonus https://github.com/LanceMcCarthy/Flusher Tools GitKracken | Legendary Git Resource 1 – CommonHelpers That is the CommonHelpers NuGet … Continue reading

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Visual Studio 2022!!

Mads Kristensen talks about all the goodness in Visual Studio 2022

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A Dozen Utilities I Use Every Day

Here are 12 utilities I use every day. They are in no particular order. I spend most of my day programming in Visual Studio 2019. #0 – Resharper. I’m so ambivalent about this add on for Visual Studio. On the … Continue reading

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Get Git in 45 Minutes

Presentation to the St. Pete’s user group Note, discussion starts 9 minutes in.  

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Mads Torgersen On C# 10

Mads comes back on show 200 (!) to talk about all things C# 10, which will be released November 2021.

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Tables Turned II – Unhandled Exception Podcast

Dan Clarke interviewed James World and me about Git and my new book, Git For Programmers. The podcast is here.

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Git! Turn the tables

In this podcast the tables are turned, and I’m interviewed by Kate Strachni of Datacated .

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