MVVMLight Messenger
Messages are a common pattern used in the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern approach. They allow the ViewModel and Model to communicate with the view wit...
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Looking at Xamarin.Forms from Enterprise view
Xamarin founded in 2011 (former Mono) has been enabling C# developers to write mobile apps for Android and iOS. Xamarin provides full access to the entire ...
Serialize object inheritance with JSON.Net
Though frowned upon often due to overuse inheritance remains a powerful and (when used correctly) great feature of an object oriented programming language ...
Storing files from the Portable Class Library (PCL)
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Consuming an Azure hosted ASP.Net WebAPI service with Xamarin.Forms
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Xamarin.iOS hide keyboard
In this post we will look at how we can hide the keyboard after using it for entering data in a text field. Now when you come from another platform feature...
Integrating a WCF service in Xamarin.Forms
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) used to be the way how web services were created in .Net. Allegedly it comes at no surprise that many backend servic...