Visual Studio 15.7: A great improvement for Xamarin
Finally a new version of Visual Studio is here and it seems great.\n\nAs usual let’s see the release note from the Visual Studio website.
IMPORTANT: Visual Studio 15.6.5 adds support for Xcode 9.3
Today Microsoft has released a new version of Visual Studio to add support for Xcode 9.2 This is a FUNDAMENTAL update for Visual Studio and Xamarin as with the old version you cannot compile code for Apple (you can read the?article here). Let’s see now the complete Release notes: VS 15.6 does not respect the […]
IMPORTANT: Xcode version 9.3 is not yet compatible with Xamarin. Don’t update
UPDATE 4/4/2018: Microsoft has released the version 15.6.5 for Visual Studio that adds support for XCode 9.3. You can read more here. The current Xamarin tool for Visual Studio 15.6.4 is not compatible yet with Xcode 9.3 so if you update Xcode to this version, you will not be able to compile your iOS projects […]
How to invert a boolean value in XAML with a IValueConverter
In this post we’ll how is possible to invert a boolean value in our XAML page using a Converter\n\nLet’s say that we have a Label that should be visible only if a boolean property is false.
UrhoSharp Tutorial: How to create your first project with Xamarin.Forms
In this tutorial I show you how to create a UrhoSharp project using Xamarin.Forms. This UrhoSharp project will run on Android, iOS and UWP.
How to add a Checkbox in Xamarin.Forms
We are going to show step by step how to create a Checkbox for Xamarin.Forms with a very simple code without the use of Custom Renderers.\n\nThis checkbox will work on every platform: Android, iOS, UWP… and the final result will be something like…
Xamarin.Forms on Android: How to remove the Uppercase from a button text
If you create a button on Android and write its text in lowercase (“my text”), when you launch the app, you can see that the text is all uppercase (“MY TEXT”).\n\nThis is not a bug but the standard style for Android.\n\nSometimes we prefer to have our text in lowercase so here I’ll show you different methods to do it…
Why you should update Visual Studio to this version to improve Xamarin
Microsoft has released the version 15.6.3 of Visual Studio and it contains several fixes some of them for Xamarin.\n\nLet see the release notes
Improve your code with LINQ – How to speed up your Xamarin and .Net app
Usually a desktop platform has a lot of available resources so many developers tend to avoid to improve the quality of their code.\nOn a mobile platform the resources are quite limited and improving the code could make a huge difference. It can transform a slow and annoying app in a great fast and great one…
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 – Preview
Microsoft has released a preview version 15.7 of Visual Studio 2017.\n\nThere are few improvements around Xamarin so could be quite interesting to see the release notes.