So - you made the big jump from Xamarin Studio over to Visual Studio for Mac when it was announced at //Build that it was production ready ... and you loaded up the solution you've been working on for the last couple of weeks ... hit cmd+Enter to run…
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Things I Think Are Cool: Event to Command Behavior
Things I Think Are Cool is a blog series where I talk about things I have found interesting and helpful. They can be time savers, productivity tools, podcasts, books, products, or even people. If you're using the MVVM pattern in Xamarin.Forms, then most likely you're…
Fantastic Fonts in Forms Without the Fuss
In the last article [https://codemilltech.com/fantastic-fonts-in-xamarin-forms/] we talked about how to add custom fonts to any Xamarin.Forms app. Despite the numerous starts and stops that I encountered, the process turned out to be pretty easy, all in all. However, the XAML needed to add custom fonts is…
Things I Think Are Cool: JSON Copy in Xamarin Studio
I want to start up a series of blog posts where I talk about things that I think are cool. They can be time savers, productivity tools, podcasts, books, products, or even people. The point is - if I find something that's cool and helps me out in…
Fantastic Fonts in Xamarin.Forms
Adding custom fonts into a Xamarin.Forms project might be something know how to do already. And that's because Xamarin has an entire documentation page [https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/user-interface/text/fonts/] written on how to do it! But ... as is often the case ... I ran…
Persist Whatever You Want With Xamarin.Forms
I'll admit, until recently, I was blissfully unaware that Xamarin.Forms has a baked-in persistence mechanism in the form of a static IDictionary object in the App class. This property is called, of all things, Properties and has the signature of IDictionary<string, object>. You can…