Motivation I was planning to run my blog without WordPress for quite some time. For one, because WordPress is really blown up as a platform. The second reason is more of a practical nature – this ...
As you might know, I am in the process of converting all my internal used libraries to be .NET MAUI compatible. This is quite a bigger task than initially thought, although I somehow enjoy the proc...
In Xamarin.Forms, my internal libraries for MVVM helped me to keep my applications cleanly structured and abstracted. I recently started the process of porting them over to .NET MAUI. I was quickly...
The Key Our goal is to add keyed registrations to the IServiceCollection, so we need a common denominator to build upon. As I was able to use a string with the SimpleIoc implementation of MVVMLigh...
The Fundamentals In the first section of the book, the authors give us an overview about the anatomy of a query (going very deep) and how SQL Server (also on Azure) processes queries. They also ex...
As some of you might remember, I was always a big fan of the MVVMLight toolkit. As the later one is now deprecated and MAUI around, I took a look at the CommunityToolkit.Mvvm, which is officially t...
Starting at dormakaba I started this year with a new job, moving from a shareholder register to a company for access solutions. The first month was driven by a lot of explanations and testing. The...
Update After publishing this post, Gerald Versluis from Microsoft responded on Twitter with an interesting information on how to get the system colors into our ResourceDictionary without using the...
How I discovered this #XFQaD When I was reorganizing the application resources on my current side project, I decided to create some thematically divided ResourceDictionary files. This has led me t...
Having written a few applications with Xamarin.Forms by now, there was always the one part where you have to go platform specific. Over time, this part got easier as the collection of Platform-spec...