Back when I wrote the [post on the awesomeness that is binding platform specific, aka native, views directly in Xamarin.Forms XAML](https://codemilltech.com/bindable-native-views-xamarin-forms-2-3-3-look-ahead/) one of the things missing were `Commands`. For example, no tying button clicks to a `Command` in a view model. Using the UpdateSourceEventName attribute,…
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Back to School Part 2: Revenge of the Custom Bindings!
Late last summer I wrote a post on creating a custom bindable property using Xamarin.Forms. I titled it “Back to School” because I wrote it around … well … back to school time. Since then however, the Xamarin.Forms team has seen fit to deprecate the function I wrote about that…
Xamarin Forms - View Model First Navigation
Hi! I released a NuGet package that does VM First Navigation! This article here still contains valuable info - but this other article has the necessary info to start using the VM First NuGet package. I recently started a brand spanking new Xamarin Forms project and I wanted to have…
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…