Hi! I released a NuGet package that does VM First Navigation! This article here still contains valuable info - but this other article [https://codemilltech.com/xamarin-forms-viewmodel-first-navigation-library/] has the necessary info to start using the VM First NuGet package [https://www.nuget.org/packages/CodeMill.VMFirstNav/].I recently started a…
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Matthew Soucoup
Matthew is a Sr Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft and a Pluralsight author from Seattle by way of Madison, WI. He ❤️s 📱 & ☁️ development and Wisconsin craft 🍺 and 🧀.
Tables Full of Cheese: An Intro to Azure Table Service and Xamarin
In our last post on Azure Storage [https://codemilltech.com/blobs-blobs-of-cheese-a-xamarinazure-storage-primer/] we looked at how to save large amounts of binary data to a BLOB from a Xamarin Forms app. We also took a quick look at what Azure Storage’s offering all provided, how to create a service account,…
Code Mill Minute: Debugging With Visual Studio ... But Not From Windows
The Situation You need to debug a web based project running in Visual Studio – but the thing you want to initiate the debugging from isn’t a web browser running on Windows… Let’s say it’s a physical iPad – or maybe an iOS simulator running on a Mac and…
Code Mill Minute: The Coolest Xamarin 4 Feature Ever!
On November 17, Xamarin unveiled a huge set of new features collectively known as Xamarin 4. These features pretty much touched the entire Xamarin product lineup – big and small. Some highlights include: * Xamarin Forms 2.0 This is a big time release [https://developer.xamarin.com/releases/xamarin-forms/xamarin-forms-2.0/…
Blobs & Blobs of Cheese: A Xamarin/Azure Storage Primer
In our quest to explore what data services Azure offers the mobile developer and how to integrate them with a Xamarin.Forms app, so far we really just touched on familiar database storage. First looking at how to save data to the cloud [https://codemilltech.com/head-in-the-clouds-azure-mobile-services-and-data/], then finding out…
Back To School! Adding A Custom Bindable Property To Xamarin Forms
The exact API discussed below has been deprecated by Xamarin! Not to worry though – all of the concepts discussed are still valid. The only difference is that you should use the API that does not include generics when doing a BindableProperty.Create(). Other than that, everything discussed within this post…