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What can I say… an hour of amazing Maui goodness, including:
- What is Maui?
- When is Maui?
- How does it affect Xamarin.Forms?
.NET Maui!!!
MonkeyCache step by step
The amazing James Montemagno of Xamarin/Microsoft has done it again. He has created an incredibly simple cache, named MonkeyCache, that you can get up and running very quickly.
In this post I will walk through setting up and using the cache, step by step.
Continue readingDataTemplateSelector
Suppose you have a collection of items and you want to display them in a ListView (Xamarin.Forms). The catch is that you want to change the display of each item depending on its state or some other code-based attributes.
At first glance this would seem very difficult, and you’d have to modify the instances in the collection to do so. This is where the DataTemplateSelector comes in.
In short, you create two or more data templates — one for each way you might want to display one of the items in your collection — and then you tell Xamarin.Forms, by way of the DataTemplateSelector, which data template to use.
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Jon Galloway: VS Mac & More
Jon Galloway. Friend of the show, PM on Visual Studio Mac, amazing guy.
Links:https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/community/standup
https://twitch.tv/jongalloway
https://github.com/SteveSandersonMS/CarChecker
Posted in Mac, Visual Studio, Xamarin.Forms
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C# 9 Part 3 – Patterns
Jared Parsons – lead of the C# Compiler Team at Microsoft
C# 9 – Part 2
Jared Parsons – lead of the C# Compiler Team at Microsoft
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 by step explanation.
Continue readingCode 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 use a lot. It creates something that looks like this:
Continue readingLatest Video: Xamarin.Forms
Proud to announce my newest video course: Hands On Xamarin.Forms. Learn Xamarin in 2.5 hours.
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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 changed).
The complete source for this example is on GitHub.
My first impulse was to use EventToCommand, but that became a rabbit hole, and thanks to Lance and others on the Xamarin Community Forums, and email, I was redirected to a simpler approach that I will explain here.
We begin with a DataTemplate that we will use with our ListView.
Continue readingOpen 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 logic in the view model.
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