Building amazing cross-platform solutions for iOS, Android and Windows
As we progress through the various previews of .NET 6 it’s great to see the transition happening from Xamarin.Forms to dotnet MAUI. The other day, James Montemagno tweeted out an image that showcases the same application running on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows (which is now based on WinUI Desktop!). This tweet inspired me to … Continue reading “Multi-Platform PixelPerfect UI with Windows UI and the Uno Platform”
Two years ago I posted on Getting Started with Platform Uno which focused on starting with a UWP application and extending it cross platform using the Uno Platform. For those tracking developments in the Windows development space, you’ll be aware that the 0.5 version of Project Reunion has just been released. It seem fitting to … Continue reading “Getting Started with the Uno Platform (Project Reunion/WinUI)”
How to implement custom grouping
How to display grouped data in a TreeView
How to sort groups of data items
How to display items in an ItemsControl using different templates
How to implement a data bound dialog box
How to synchronize ListBoxes displaying three levels of hierarchical data
List-detail scenario
How to sync selection of two data bound ListBoxes
How to make a data bound bar graph
This is an index post for a series of blog posts covering some XAML basics. The original content came from a series of posts that Beatriz Stollnitz made on WPF/Silverlight that had been moved to a github repository. Unfortunately most of the samples don’t work out of the box with the latest version of Visual Studio … Continue reading “XAML Basics for WPF, UWP, Uno and WinUI”
How to change the layout of an ItemsControl
What is the difference between SelectedValue and SelectedItem?
DisplayMemberPath
How to bind the items of a ComboBox (and get its ComboBoxItems
How to get a ListBoxItem from a data bound ListBox
What does “{Binding}” mean?
How should I decide whether to use DataContext or Source?
The other day Martin Zikmond tweeted about a messaging sample app he’d built using the Uno Platform, allowing the same app to run on iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS and Web. Whilst the concept was simple enough, the point was that there was almost no platform specific code and yet the app works and looks virtually … Continue reading “Building Messages in Blend for Visual Studio”
