Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 is now Available
Finally the new version of Visual Studio 2017 is here.\n\nAs usual let’s see the new features inside this releases and the changes for Xamarin:
Microsoft has releases Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1
Microsoft has now released a new update for Visual Studio 2019. Let see what news we are and if there are improvements for Xamarin (Yes, there are…Yes!!!!)
Xamarin.Forms 4.0 is finally out
Xamarin.Forms 4.0 is finally out. Let’s see what are the new features and if there are performance improvements. Ready to find out?
Improve your MVVM code with Fody and PropertyChanged
The MVVM and Fody
\nThe MVVM (Model, View, ViewModel) pattern helps you to organise and structure your code to create better apps.\n\nWith this pattern you can split your code in 3 main parts:\n\nModel: Where you put your data\n\nViewModel: It’s the logic of your app and a link between the Model and the View\n\nView: It’s the UI of your app (usually written in XAML)
Native Crash with Syncfusion and Xamarin.Forms
If you are using the Syncfusion library together with Xamarin.Forms > 3.4 you should definitely continue to read. Since the new release of Xamarin.Form 3.5, if you try to use the Syncfusion Listview (SfListView) in Release mode on Android, your app will crash. In this moment there are two things that you can do: Use […]
How to change dynamically your listview using templates
Basically all the apps use a Listview to show one or more list of items.\nSometimes you want to change the appearance of your items according to some parameter (for example inside the same page, sometimes you want to show partial forms, other times completed forms and so on).\n\nLet’s see how easily you can achieve this in Xamarin.
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.