For the longest time I knew what Attached Properties in Xamarin.Forms were – the most famous example being setting a control’s position within a Grid … <Label Text="I'm attached!" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="2" /> … but to be honest,…
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Bindable Native Views in XAML - With Commands!?!
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,…
Xamarin Forms - Bindable Picker(!!)
I’m rather starting to like doing these look aheads to features coming out in future versions of Xamarin.Forms. It’s really cool tracing through the source code to see how a new feature is being implemented and coming together. And today we’re going to talk about a…
Back to School Part 2: Revenge of the Custom Bindings!
Late last summer I wrote a post on creating a custom bindable property [https://codemilltech.com/back-to-school-adding-a-custom-bindable-property-to-xamarin-forms/] 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…