Wow – Microsoft made a pretty big announcement today at Build 2016, no? Xamarin will now be included in all versions of Visual Studio … for FREE! This removes a pretty sizable barrier for people and companies from trying Xamarin and all of the cross platform development goodness it delivers … cost. So…
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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 [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…
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,…
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…