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🤖 I do things with IoT and academic advocacy in the DevRel team at Microsoft. |
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Redmond, WA, USA |
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| Xamarin In Action | |
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The MEAP of my book, Xamarin In Action, has just been updated to include a new chapter covering building cross-platform view models. This chapter talks about how you can use view models to increase the amount of cross-platform, unit testable code in your Xamarin app by moving UI logic away from the platform specific layers down into your cross-plat…
Read MoreUpdate - it's now on the marketplace! Link here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JimBobBennett.MvvmCrossforVisualStudio The awesome team at Microsoft have got it all working, so I've managed to upload the VS2017 version to the marketplace. You can now download it from Extensions and Updates. Thanks to everyone on the VS extens…
Read MoreThis article is an excerpt from Xamarin in Action MVVM is the most popular design pattern for cross-platform apps built using Xamarin, and has a history of being a very successful design pattern for building Windows desktop apps using WPF, WinRT apps, and Windows 10 UWP apps – even web frameworks like knockout.js are using it. When Xamarin designe…
Read MoreOver the last few months I've been busily writing away on my first book - Xamarin In Action for Manning publications. Manning are a pretty serious publisher, they count Jon Skeet amongst their authors so it was quite an honor to be asked to write for them. The first 3 chapters are now available to buy under the Manning early access program - under…
Read MoreThis is the third part in the my series about building an Android app using Xamarin.Android. You can find the first part here and the second part here, and I highly recommend reading these first. Data binding In the first 2 parts of this we created our basic app shell and built a core library with models that used SQLite to store and retrieve our…
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