Why do I need to take control over the back button behavior? The back button is available on Windows, Android and under certain conditions on iOS. It is one of the key navigation hooks. While the ...
If you have been following along me for some time, you’ll probably know that I used to be a fan of Microsoft and its products (especially Windows Phone) for a long time, and I did really everything...
Often, we want to/need to know when views throw certain events. However, due to using the MVVM pattern, our application logic is separated from the view. There are several ways to get those events ...
In this post, I will show you how to display dialog messages (also known as message box). This time, we will use again native implementations (like in the second post about Dependency Injection) to...
After showing you the basic MVVMLight Setup I am using as well as how to combine Xamarin.Forms’ DependencyService with our own Dependecy Injection-mechanism, this article is all about Navigation an...
Recap Let’s just do a small recap what Dependency Injection means. The DI pattern’s main goal is to decouple objects and their dependencies. To separate concerns, we are using this structure nearl...
Updated some code parts that needed to be changed in the ViewModelLocator. Please see also this post for upgrading the project to .netStandard: Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: migrati...
Note: as this is an editorial, this blog post reflects my own experience and thoughts. You will agree with some points, but disagree with others. Feel free to leave a comment to start a discussion ...
[Updated: the first version of this blog post was using a UserControl. Thanks to a discussion on Twitter, I realized that wrapping it into a UserControl is overblown (yes, sometimes I tend to write...
Yesterday in the morning, Alessandro invited me to join a meetup targeting the Hololens. As the Hololens is very rare outside the US, I just needed to join the event. When I arrived, already one o...