Jesse Liberty

Zero hype.  Free means free.

Sign up for FalafelCon (Monterey, September 14-17)  and you not only get full admission to all of FalafelCon and all of TechIntersection, but under this special deal you get the IOT workshop by Doug Seven ( all day Monday) and my Xamarin workshop (all day Friday) free.

(Or if you prefer, pay for both and get a Surface 3)  

In this, week 3 of 52 Weeks of Xamarin, we’re going to pick up where we left off last week, and add event handling to our buttons

There is much to do to make this a working program, and starting next week we’ll begin to add real logic, as well as a Model class (data) and a ViewModel class (logic).  We’ll also begin to add unit tests, and shoot for test-driven development.

But I did promise to illustrate how event handling works, and so this week I’ll show how to respond to a button press.  This is very simple, which means this week’s posting will be a bit short.

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 This is the second week of 52 weeks of Xamarin.  To make this all more interesting and practical, we’ll start on building a quasi-real-world application; the iconic To Do List.  

The application shown in this and future columns is based on an application I explore in depth in my forthcoming Pluralsight course, Beginning Mobile Development with Xamarin

Step 1 is to open a new project.  Choose Cross-platform App/ Blank Xamarin.Forms App,  and name it 52ToDo.  As you work your way through the configuration wizard be sure that Use Portable Class Library is selected.  

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I’m very proud to announce my latest Pluralsight course: Xamarin.Forms and Data.

Thanks!