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I could not be more excited for .NET Core 3 that will soon power all of your WPF and WinForms apps in addition to ASP.NET Core and .NET Core apps themselves! You may be saying... James... WPF... WinForms... why even bother? Well, because you may have to support some older apps and with the power of .NET Core 3 as the runtime instead of the .NET Framework it means that we no longer have to worry about what version of …
James Montemagno
I have been streaming on Twitch for over 6 months now. I stream both code on my personal Twitch channel and I also stream games and recordings of Nintendo Dispatch with my buddy Michael over on the official Dispatch Twitch channel. One thing that always bothered me was having to manually mess around with apps to get a simple countdown timer. They were too complex, had too many options, and had a bunch of quirks. So, …
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Last week I wrote about my new quest to fully optimize and enhance Hanselman.Forms. This involves using the latest and greatest in Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials, but it also means spicing up the app with some lovely visuals and design. My first quest was to re-design the podcast section of the mobile app to create a list in grid form of different podcast that Hanselman produces.
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It seems as though my obsession with the Android Bottom Navigation View aka Bottom Tabs will never end! This time I got a question about controlling the size of the text when the user taps on a tab. The default behavior is to zoom in on the text: Inside of your Android project's Resources/values folder create a new file called dimens.xml if it doesn't exist. Then add the following XML to override the size of the text …
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The night before we launched Xamarin.Forms in mid-2014, I was having a conversation with Nat about creating a nice out of the box real world example of a Xamarin.Forms app. We discussed several different app ideas, but we were short on time as it was already 8PM at night. Then I thought perhaps I could create an app for my idol and fellow Chipotle lover Scott Hanselman. Fast-forward 8 hours and several cups of coffee …
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It seems as if the BottomNavigationView aka Bottom Tabs on Android is one of the top things that I write about on my blogs. There was an introduction post, how to use reflection to remove shifting on native Xamarin.Android, official support in Xamarin.Forms, and most recently how to get a nice drop shadow. I am back one more time to talk specifically about how to finely tune those bottom tabs on android and stop the …
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It is a tale as old of time fighting with Android elevation and drop shadows. First it was the Toolbar on a Navigation page and now it is the new fancy bottom tabs that we got in Xamarin.Forms 3.1. I know what you are thinking... another custom renderer... NOPE! You just have to know to set a few different properties correctly.
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I consider myself extremely fortunate to be able to attend and present to so many amazing developers at great conferences around the globe. I even get to attend a conference from time to time, but one thing has always bothered me...The Stuff We All Get aka SWAG! Don't get me wrong, I love swag! Who doesn't love a cool bag, mug, or shirt branded with our companies favorite logos? The first time you walk into a …
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