MSicc`s Blog

Jul

2022

Make the IServiceProvider of your MAUI application accessible with the MVVM CommunityToolkit

In this post, I will show you how you can make the default IServiceProvider of your MAUI application accessible via the MVVM CommunityToolkit’s Ioc.Default implementation.

Jun

2022

Invoke platform code in a MAUI app using the built-in Dependency Injection

I recently started to port my internal MVVM libraries over to .NET MAUI. It did not take long until I reached the point where I needed to invoke platform code. This post is about my experience with that.

Feb

2022

Using Microsoft’s Extensions.DependencyInjection package in (Xamarin.Forms) MVVM applications (Part 2)

In the last post, I showed you how to use the IServiceProvider interface in general for dependency injection in your Xamarin.Forms app. In this post, I will show you how to add multiple registrations of the same ViewModel type and make them accessible with a key.

Feb

2022

Book review (and recommendation): Learn T-SQL Querying

I just finished reading “Learn T-SQL Querying” written by two Microsoft employees (Pedro Lopes and Pam Lahoud) who are working on the database engine of Microsoft’s SQL Server. They are providing a very deep look into writing efficient queries and tools that can make the life of a developer easier.

Feb

2022

Using Microsoft’s Extensions.DependencyInjection package in (Xamarin.Forms) MVVM applications (Part 1) [Updated]

In this post, I am showing you how I am using Microsoft’s Extensions.DependencyInjection package and how I implemented my own IServiceProvider for it.

Dec

2021

Goodbye, 2021!

Another year has gone by. Although we all had high hopes this year will be better than 2020, especially in terms of the pandemic, it sadly was not for most of the time. This post takes a look at my 2021.

Dec

2021

Use the iOS system colors in Xamarin.Forms (Updated)

Apple has defined some best practices for coloring our iOS apps. To make it easier, Apple created system colors that are (partly) adaptive to the system’s coloring. In this post, I show you how to use these colors in Xamarin.Forms.

Nov

2021