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.NET MAUI – Forget Me Not – Part 3

In the previous postings we looked at creating the basic app and adding a single, simple page. This post will really begin to get into it. We’re going to have a number of pages A page for you to enter … Continue reading

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New Series: .NET MAUI — Forget Me Not

My buddy in Argentina, Roberto Juarez, and I have set out to create a real-world, non-trivial program using .NET MAUI. This is a learning exercise, and I’d like to invite you to join us. We anticipate that (eventually) this will … Continue reading

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 10

Let’s take a quick look at simple navigation (in the next post we’ll look at some more you can do with navigation. As usual, we’ll start with the previous day’s code. To get started, we’ll add a button to the … Continue reading

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 8

Busy week, so this one will be short. I’ve taken the code from Part 7 and copied it into Part 8. The source for 8 is here. So, what’s new? The most important improvement in 8 is the addition of … Continue reading

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 7

Let’s pick up where we left off in the previous blog post, but it is time to clean up the app to use MVVM. First step: create a ViewModel folder and in that put two files: MainViewModel ViewModelBase

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Advanced Databinding: Part 0 – BASICS

In the ugly old days, if you had data that you wanted to display you would put the data into a variable and then write some code to copy that data to a control on your page. If the data … Continue reading

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Xamarin Best Practices

In a recent blog post, I showed the C# best practices we use at my current placement. Today, the Xamarin best practices: Xamarin 🐒 Best Practices The Do’s 🙌 👍 Catch XAML Errors Early Add the following attribute to code … Continue reading

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Display A Dialog From The ViewModel

In a previous blog post I discussed the problem of being in your ViewModel yet having to display a dialog to the user. You can’t interact with the page from the ViewModel, but you don’t want the logic of your … Continue reading

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I’m Back! With Xamarin.Forms Programming

It has been a few months since I’ve posted, and I hope you missed me as much as I missed you.  To re-launch this blog, I’ve decided to provide a series on Xamarin.Forms programming.   If you prefer to learn by … Continue reading

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Learning Xamarin.Forms – Part 4: Layout and Views

This series begins with an overview here This series is based on my Pluralsight Course: Building Your First Mobile Application with Xamarin.Forms and Visual Studio 2017 Layout Xamarin.Forms has a number of “Layout” controls that can contain other controls (views) and help … Continue reading

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Learning Xamarin.Forms – Part 3: Navigation

This series begins with an overview here In Part 2 we considered MVVM This series is based on my Pluralsight Course: Building Your First Mobile Application with Xamarin.Forms and Visual Studio 2017 Navigation Just about any serious mobile application will have … Continue reading

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Learning Xamarin.Forms – Part 1 – Overview

About this series This post begins a series in which I will introduce Xamarin.Forms, put it in context and then teach all you need to know to go from absolute beginner to intermediate/advanced Xamarin.Forms programmer.  I assume no prior mobile … Continue reading

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