We had a huge turnout today in Dallas for Xamarin Dev Days. Here we have @JamesMontemagno and @shawnweisfeld performing an equipment check. View from the back as James was opening the day. We had a really good turnout and the sponsors kept us fed and watered so that the chance of cannibalism simply was not […]
Continue readingIf 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 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 readingThere was a really great thread on the Xamarin Forms forum yesterday regarding taking screen shots of your mobile application. I thought I would share this information here to summarize the conversation. From Outside the Application Greg Shackles wrote a great article about using Xamarin UITest to generate screen shots using the built-in functionality of […]
Continue readingWay back in 2006 I write an article, Cascading Style Sheet Color chart, with a link to a site that created a set of colors that matched the Behr Premium paint swatches. I thought that might be valuable in my Xamarin.Forms work so I converted their work and created an Extended Color Palette structure using […]
Continue readingXamarin.Forms v1.3.0 has a really great addition which allows us to scroll to a specific location within a ListView. ScrollTo works by performing a linear search for an individual item, or an individual item within a specified group. There are two variations: ScrollTo(object, ScrollToPosition, bool) Scrolls the ListView to the item. object is an item […]
Continue readingI picked up a really cool tip from Rui Marinho and @DhirendraKumar in answer to a forum post last month. Suppose you want to add a view with a semi-transparent background, like this: I personally really like this look at you can see it in many different applications. Here is all it takes: var […]
Continue readingLike most Xamarin developers I have a Mac setting on my desk. Unfortunately I do not find myself to be as productive on a Mac keyboard as I do on the Windows Keyboard. When Xamarin’s Visual Studio integration was released, and it became stable enough to develop with Visual Studio on my Windows workstation instead […]
Continue readingI was trolling the Xamarin.Forms forum when I saw this question: Can you limit a Slider to only allow integer values? (Hopefully snapping to the next integer) I dug around a bit I found this solution on StackOverflow. I did a quick and dirty conversion to Xamarin.Forms, but wanted to make it a little better, […]
Continue readingSo I am coming out of stealth-mode to announce what I think we all can agree is a “game changing application,” that runs across iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Announcing Beer:30 I had planned to submit Beer:30 for this year’s Xammy Awards but I just didn’t have time to finish all of the […]
Continue readingSo Xamarin released an update (v3) last week and it is truly a huge step forward for mobile developers. So if you are interested in cross-platform development and haven’t reviewed what Xamarin has done, then you need to stop what you’re doing and go look. Xamarin is having a contest to showcase their new Xamarin.Forms […]
Continue readingI had a few minutes this morning before one of my classes and thought I’d start working with the new Xamarin 3, which looks freaking awesome, by the way. I opened visual Studio 2013 and created a new Xamarin.Forms application. Before I make any changes, I decided to verify that it would indeed compile with […]
Continue readingSo picture this: I am trying to get my very own C# t-shirt by compiling the Xamarin Store App using Visual Studio (Xamarin Studio on the Mac works just fine). I am having an issue deploying the app to the iOS Simulator so I can run it. Unfortunately, the only feedback I am receiving was […]
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