XAML Back to Basics #11: Multiple Linked Lists
How to synchronize ListBoxes displaying three levels of hierarchical data
WinUI
Fix: WinUI Preview 2 with Visual Studio 2019 Error Creating Project
If you’ve recently upgraded to the latest Visual Studio preview (Preview 2 of VS 16.8) then you may run into issues if you attempt to create a new WinUI for Desktop project. You’ll see a prompt similar to the following and only the packaging project will get created. The full text from the error is … Read more
Thinking Out Loud: Mvvm Navigation for XAML Frameworks such as Xamarin.Forms, UWP/WinUI, WPF and Uno
One of the things that’s often given me pause for thought is the approach we take to navigation within applications. For the purpose of this post I’m going limit the scope to just XAML based applications (XF/Maui, UWP/WinUI/Uno, WPF). In all of these application platforms there is a built in capability to navigate between pages. … Read more
XAML Basics for WPF, UWP, Uno and WinUI
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 … Read more
XAML Back to Basics #6: SelectedValue v SelectedItem
What is the difference between SelectedValue and SelectedItem?
XAML Back to Basics #4: ComboBox Binding
How to bind the items of a ComboBox (and get its ComboBoxItems
DotNetMaui (Xamarin.Forms) is Not a XAML Platform
Yeh I know I’m going to get a ton of abuse about how this title is just click bait but before you start with the comments, hear me out. Firstly, the title is actually just missing a word DotNetMaui is Not JUST a XAML Platform In this post we’ll go through why DotNetMaui/Xamarin.Forms is/is not … Read more
Windows (UWP) Designer in Visual Studio and Blend for Visual Studio
If you’ve been looking at the release notes for the Visual Studio previews, you’ll have noted that there’s some work being done on the XAML designer that now supports both WPF and UWP. I figured I would take this opportunity to go through and document some of the features that I use and some of … Read more
iOS Hot Restart, Multi-Targeting and Solution Template for Cross-Platform Applications with Uno
In my last couple of posts I covered setting up multi-targeting and improving the developer experience with multi-targeting. This was in the context of an application that supported iOS (Xamarin iOS), Android (Xamarin Android) and Windows (UWP). In this post we’re going to look at a template for Uno cross-platform applications. If you’re new to … Read more
Microsoft Build 2020: Uno Platform + WinUI = Future of Cross Platform Apps
I’ve been a long time supporter of the work that the team at Uno Platform have been doing. The announcement today of v3.0 of the Uno Platform comes hot on the heals of releases 2.3 and 2.4 that introduced AndroidX and MacOS support. This isn’t just any old announcement, v3 aligns the Uno Platform with … Read more