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Page State with the Visual States Manager for Xamarin.Forms
One of the current limitations of the Xamarin.Forms implementation of the Visual State Manager (VSM) is that it only works for setting properties on an individual control. Whilst this is great for...
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Visual State Manager Tooling in Xamarin.Forms With BuildIt.States
Back in the days of Silverlight/Windows Phone Microsoft launched a tool called Expression Blend that allowed developers and designer to work in harmony with developers doing their thing (ie write code)...
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Design Time Data for Xamarin.Forms
In my previous post I showed how to switch between Visual States using the tooling that comes with the BuildIt.Forms library. One of the other features of the tooling is the ability to load mock data...
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Publishing Uno WebAssembly (Wasm) to Azure App Service
I figured that since I had Uno working in WebAssembly locally on my machine that I’d try publishing it out to an Azure App Service. I mean, how hard could it be since Visual Studio recognises that the...
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Deploying Uno Wasm using Blob Storage
Earlier today I posted about deploying Uno on Wasm to an Azure App Service (to which the Uno team replied on Twitter with an updated web.config). I was thinking a bit more about how I would deploy a...
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Resolving Dependencies In Platform Pages, Renderers, Effects and Elements...
We’ve been using Prism for a number of our Xamarin.Forms projects and for the most part we rely on the services being injected into our view models but a scenario came up recently where we wanted to...
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Scaffolding Your Next MvvmCross Xamarin.Forms Project
One of the things I liked about the getting started experience with Prism was that there was a Visual Studio extension that made creating a new project super simple. Whilst I know that MvvmCross...
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ViewModel to ViewModel Navigation in a Xamarin.Forms Application with Prism...
I’m a big fan of the separation that the Mvvm pattern gives developers in that the user interface is encapsulated in the view (Page, UserControl etc) and that the business logic resides in the...
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Debugging ASP.NET Core with Visual Studio and Docker Desktop
With Visual Studio 2019 hot off the press I’ve been experimenting with a few of the new project templates and the improvements that have been made in Visual Studio. In this post I’m going to cover how...
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Shell in v4 of Xamarin.Forms and Visual Studio 2019
Back in late 2018 I did a post on getting started with Shell where I did a “File-New-Project” with Xamarin.Forms Shell. In this post I’m going to do a quick update to that post looking at creating a...
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Deploying ASP.NET Core 3 to Linux Azure App Service with Docker
In my earlier post I covered creating and debugging an ASP.NET Core service using Docker Desktop. I’m going to build on that and look at how you then push the service into an Azure App Service....
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Lazy Dependencies and Interfacing Refit with MvvmCross and Prism
Refit is one of those libraries that makes your life as a developer having to write code to work with services that much easier. By way of an example let’s look at the GET List Users method from the...
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Testing ASP.NET Core Web API on Kestrel with Fiddler Composer Fails
It’s been one of those days when you set out to do something so simple and yet you get distracted by having to fix something that should just work. I’ll set the scene – I wanted to generate a simple...
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Publishing ASP.NET Core 3 Web API to Azure App Service with Http/2
In my previous post I was testing a new ASP.NET Core 3 Web API that I’d created that simply returns header and http information about the request. Having got everything working locally I decided that I...
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Xamarin and the HttpClient For iOS, Android and Windows
In an earlier post that talked about using dependency injection and registering interfaces for working with Refit across both Prism and MvvmCross I had code that registered an instance of the...
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OT: Change Project Options in Visual Studio 2019 to Make Build Output Useful
There are two things that I find somewhat frustrating about Visual Studio 2019; that is until I spent a minute or two adjusting the behaviour of Visual Studio when I build my projects:Build Progress...
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Accessing ASP.NET Core API hosted on Kestrel from iOS Simulator, Android...
This post is a stepping stone to get local debugging working for a Http/2 service over Https from a Xamarin.Forms application. In my post on publishing to Azure I covered the fact that the underlying...
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Working with Self Signed Certificates (Certificate Pinning) in Windows (UWP)...
I’ve been doing a bit of progression talking about building and debugging ASP.NET Core services over https and http/2, coupled with using platform specific handlers to improve the way the HttpClient...
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Working with Self Signed Certificates (Certificate Pinning) in iOS...
Next up in the sequence of posts talking about app security is looking at working with self-signed certificates in an iOS application. Previous posts in this sequence are:- Accessing ASP.NET Core API...
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Working with Self Signed Certificates (Certificate Pinning) in Android...
Next up in the sequence of posts talking about app security is looking at working with self-signed certificates in an Android application. Previous posts in this sequence are:- Accessing ASP.NET Core...
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