.NET Conf 2022 Focus on MAUI Recap

MAUI finally had its day in the limelight at .NET Conf with a dedicated “focused” event. There was a lot of good content shared in a roughly 8 hours long live stream. In addition to live stream, there are recorded sessions that are also available at .NET YouTube channel. Here are some of the highlights from the event that I am excited about.

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Upgrade Your ListView Game With Telerik UI for Xamarin

When building mobile app UI that requires controls and transitions that are not available from the platform “out-of-the box”, we either create our own or use a third-party library to accomplish the design. I had a similar need recently for gauges and charts in one of my client’s Xamarin.Forms application. Telerik UI for Xamarin makes it a breeze to get your UI looking good, fast.

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Stunning Animations In Xamarin.Forms With Lottie

Lottie is an animation library by AirBnb that makes it super simple to add animation in any native app – web and mobile. It helps bridge the gap from designers designing an animation to developers implementing it in the app. In this post, we will see how we can add animations to enhance our Xamarin.Forms app experience with minimal effort (the process is similar for Native apps as well).

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Checkbox For Xamarin.Forms

Xamarin.Forms is great. But, every now and then, it falls short on some basic modern controls e.g checkbox, radio buttons, cards, etc. Luckily, Xamarin community is large and very engaged with the platform. You can find plethora of custom controls or blogs on how to build custom controls for your project needs.

In recent years, I have created a bunch of custom controls that I am sure the community at large can benefit from. One such controls is a simple Checkbox. There are lots of implementations of checkbox available, but I wanted something simple and light, so I created one. Here’s how the checkbox works…

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Pro Tip: Useful Code Snippets For Your Xamarin.Forms Development

Code snippets are a hidden gem in Visual Studio that most of us do not pay much attention to. Utilizing them correctly can increase productivity when we have a lot to code. In Visual Studio, code snippets are available for multiple programming languages e.g. C#, F#, XML, HTML, CSS, Python, etc. They are extremely useful when we have a bunch of boiler plate code for our properties, constructors, bindable properties, etc.

Code snippets can be a huge topic, but in this post, I will list some of the XAML and C# code snippets useful when developing Xamarin.Forms mobile applications.

In this post,

  • Snippets
  • Creating Code Snippets
  • C# Examples
  • XAML Examples
  • Export Templates

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