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Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Presentation Attributes in MvvmCross
Previous posts in this sequence on Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms:Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio, SDK Versions, MvvmCross, Authenticating with ADALRefactoring MvvmCross and Services, Effects,...
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Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms with Resources and Styles
Previous posts in this sequence on Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms:Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio, SDK Versions, MvvmCross, Authenticating with ADALRefactoring MvvmCross and Services, Effects,...
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Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Resource Dictionaries
Previous posts in this sequence on Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms:Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio, SDK Versions, MvvmCross, Authenticating with ADALRefactoring MvvmCross and Services, Effects,...
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Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Platform Specific Resources using...
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Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Device Customization using OnIdiom
Previous posts in this sequence on Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms:Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio, SDK Versions, MvvmCross, Authenticating with ADALRefactoring MvvmCross and Services, Effects,...
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Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Unit Testing with xUnit and Moq
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Intercepting the Android Software Back Button in Xamarin.Forms
Recently an issue was raised on MvvmCross that claimed there was an issue intercepting the back button in a Xamarin.Forms + MvvmCross application running on Android. I spent a bit of time investigating...
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Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Unit Testing with xUnit and Moq (II)
Previous posts in this sequence on Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms:Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio, SDK Versions, MvvmCross, Authenticating with ADALRefactoring MvvmCross and Services, Effects,...
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Android Emulator Exception after updating to Visual Studio 15.9 preview 3
I noticed earlier this evening that there was an update available for Visual Studio 15.9. Normally I wait a few days to update as I’m not in any particular hurry but I noticed in the blog post and...
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Screenshots for Xamarin.Forms with MvvmCross Article
A while ago I wrote an article for Visual Studio magazine that details getting started with Xamarin.Forms and MvvmCross. Whilst some things have changed since then, the process for getting started is...
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Unboxing Visual Studio 2019 for Xamarin.Forms
I’ve just installed the preview for Visual Studio 2019 and wanted to share the experience of creating a new Xamarin.Forms application. Firstly, the startup screen. Whilst I’m disappointed not to have...
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Unboxing Xamarin.Forms Shell in Visual Studio 2019
In my previous post, Unboxing Visual Studio 2019 for Xamarin.Forms, I covered creating a new Xamarin.Forms project in Visual Studio 2019. The Xamarin.Forms project template hasn’t really changed much...
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Why are Developers Not Developing Applications for Windows?
The actual answer to this question is that basic premise of the question is wrong – developers are and will continue to develop for Windows. The question is a bit like saying “Why are all web...
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Connecting Flutter to Azure at MS Ignite | The Tour – Sydney
This year I was lucky enough to be able to present at Microsoft’s Ignite | The Tour, which has just concluded here in Sydney. What amazed me was that I got to present on a fledgling technology...
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Getting Started with Platform Uno
A while ago I posted on Building a TipCalc using Platform Uno and at the time there was quite a few steps to jump through to get a basic application running from scratch. In this post I’m going to...
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Web Development with NO JavaScript; Is Uno the Future Web Platform?
This is probably stating the obvious but I’m a big advocate for rich client applications. With the recent advances in PWAs I’m looking down the barrel of having to concede to all those fellow...
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Blend Still Lives
I was surprised when editing the XAML of a UWP project that I saw a prompt to open the page in Blend – I’d all but forgotten that Blend exists. On launching Blend I noticed the fancy new splash screen...
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Updated Uno Visual Studio Extension
I just noticed that the Uno Visual Studio Extension has been updated, so I figured I’d give it a go in Visual Studio 2019. After installing the extension I used the new startup dialog on Visual Studio...
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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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