If you had any Visual Studio projects using the Shared Project model, you probably noticed that the installation of the Azure SDK 2.6 broke Visual Studio’s ability to work with, or create new, Shared Projects. This was first posted on this thread in the Azure forums on May 1st and it is an absolute show-stopper. […]
Continue readingThe Xamarin.Forms.VisualElement class has a property called InputTransparent, that: Gets or sets a value indicating whether this element should be involved in the user interaction cycle. The documentation states: When set to true, the element will be able to receive input. false if element should not receive input and should pass inputs to the element […]
Continue readingLast week I got into a conversation with Christine Blanda on the Xamarin Forms forum about creating a page that had a built-in Activity Indicator that could be enabled/disabled by just setting properties. It turns out that I was at a point in one of my projects where I needed just such a component so […]
Continue readingThere were a couple of threads (here, and here) this week regarding querying an Internet-based time server using Xamarin forms. The first thing you need to do is download Sockets for PCL from Nuget, written by Ryan Davis. The source may be found here. Using Ryan’s updated sample code from the second formum thread, I’ve […]
Continue readingOne of my current projects makes used of ListView Grouping and for quite some period of time, I could not understand why my custom header template was not working, when code from other people’s projects that I had seen worked just fine. So yesterday, I decided I had had enough and spent a couple of […]
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