Prism for .NET MAUI - Public Beta
Ok the name kind of gives it away, but Prism for .NET MAUI is now available as a Public Beta! We've been working hard the past year on Prism for .NET MAUI, and...
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29 articles in this collection.
Making DevOps Easy with Mobile.BuildTools
It's been quite a journey if I'm honest. In fact as I look back over the last several years it's really crazy too look at what the Mobile.BuildTools has...
Shiny all the things - writing testable code
Shiny all the things as they say. If you aren't using Shiny for your Xamarin.Forms or Uno Platform apps, the question is why? We see a lot of people excited...
Source Generators an Exercise in futility
Some time ago I did a live stream with Jérôme Laban from the Uno Platform team on Source Generators. This actually predated a lot of the more recent excitement...
Icon Fonts made Easy
Coming from a Pre-Xamarin background of web development, I have always loved fonts like Font Awesome. Naturally I was pretty excited that Xamarin.Forms finally...
AndroidX, App Bundle and Profiled AOT for Xamarin Android
Recently I tweeted about some early observations on some updates I made for an Android project that's currently in the App Store. What was so amazing about this...
Getting Started with Azure Pipelines for Xamarin Developers
DevOps for Xamarin apps is a rather large topic. Rather than trying to go A-Z in one bite, I thought it might make more sense to divide this up into bite sized...
Using Dependency Injection Everywhere
Recently I started putting together some extensions to make my life even easier with Dependency Injection. I really enjoy being able to use Prism's abstractions....
Using "Unsupported" DI Containers with Prism
Developers around the world rely on Prism to build some pretty amazing apps. When I first saw Prism I was amazed at how quickly and easily I could develop an...
Demystifying the SDK Project
I am often, and rightfully, accused of living on the bleeding edge. It can be quite painful being there as ideas are not always fully flushed out, and tooling is...
Azure Active Directory B2C for Xamarin Applications
You may have heard about Azure Active Directory B2C before. There have been a number of posts on the topic previously, including an episode with Matthew Soucoup...
Developer Toolkit for Visual Studio Mac
Several years ago when I was still just a web developer wanting to break into mobile development, I asked myself how does anybody do this? You have to learn Java...
Prism 7.1 Preview 3
Today we released the 3rd Preview for Prism 7.1. This is a very significant release for us and contains some very exciting changes. Forms Dependency Resolver At...
Prism 7.1 Preview 1
Maintaining a library can be exceptionally difficult. As time progresses new demands arise that weren't there when the API was first created. Sometimes simple...
.NET Standard & the New Project Format for Xamarin Developers
.NET Standard has really changed the ballgame for .NET Developers. In large part because the entire project system has experienced a revamp. Lately I've found...
Secure App Builds with AppCenter
AppCenter has been touted as this wonderful new service from Microsoft. It's supposed to make it easier to build, test and distribute our apps. While there is a...
Xamarin DevOps In A Box
Several Months ago I set out to make some of the most powerful Xamarin Project Templates. I've gotten a lot of feedback on the Prism QuickStart Templates and how...
Prism for Xamarin Forms Preview 3
So much goes into developing a Xamarin Forms application, and Prism for Xamarin Forms is continuing to make your mobile development a little easier. Today we...
Xamarin Forms UI Development Made Easy with LiveXAML
I'm all about working with XAML in my Xamarin Forms apps. Developers coming from a WPF background have been used to some great tooling for visually styling their...
Prism Template Pack in Visual Studio for Mac
Prism users have long enjoyed some great Template packs available for Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio. Visual Studio for Mac though has been a real challenge...
Breaking Changes for Prism Autofac Users
History It's certainly been no secret that I've told user's that Autofac wasn't really a good choice for Prism Forms. To be honest just looking at the benchmarks...
Prism 7.0 for Xamarin Forms Sneak Peek
Prism 7.0 Sneak Peek If you're a Xamarin developer, chances are you've been through a struggle or two with NetStandard. NetStandard offers a lot of advantages,...
Prism Quickstart Templates
Quickstart Templates for Prism Forms So you had this great idea for an app... maybe you spent weeks planning with your team or with your client. The day finally...
Azure Mobile Client Helpers
To be honest, I forget now exactly when I first heard about the Azure Mobile Client library. I do however remember an initial sense of excitement for being able...
Xamarin Package Authoring
Whether you're just a .NET developer or a Xamarin developer we've all used NuGet. Chances are if you're anything like me, you may have started down the...
A Dot Net Developer on a Mac
Recently I had a chance to attend a meetup here in San Diego. To be honest, around other developers I sometimes feel like the odd man out. I mean here I am a C#...
The Hamburger Menu with Prism Forms
How many times have you heard someone ask about a Hamburger menu in Xamarin Forms? It's a topic that comes up fairly frequently and it seems there are two...
Prism Forms 6.3.0 Highlights
For those following Prism 6.3, it's been a while coming, but there is a lot there. Here are a few helpful things to get you going. Behaviors One of my favorite...
Using Popup Pages with Prism for Xamarin Forms
So often as mobile developers we use some sort of Popup view. Really the reasons why we want to do this simple task are pretty endless. For too long it's been...