Every now and then, I receive questions about how to display different types of items in a ListView, FlipView, Xamarin.Forms CarouselView, etc. For example, imagine a list of files the user can choose from. The list will mainly contain file…
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Welcome back to the final part of this tutorial! By now, our SQLite DateTimeOffset serializer is functional, all that’s missing are a few improvements to make it more flexible. First of all, our custom implementation still does not solve the…
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If you followed all the steps in the previous blog post, created your own SQLite DateTimeOffset serializer post-build task and tested it, you might wonder how to automate it. At the moment, we need to build the target assembly, register…
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After settings up the basic structure of our post-build task in the previous blog post, let’s bring it two life! This post focuses on the cure steps of our CIL manipulation: Analyzing object structure, declaring new properties, and changing existing…
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Welcome back to part #3 of the aspect-oriented DateTimeOffset SQLite serializer! In this part, we’re going to actually read .NET assemblies, manipulate them, and recompile them. To be able to reconstruct the solution on your side, I’d suggest that you…
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What do we need to get started with our automatic DateTimeOffset-to-SQLite serialization project? Let’s begin with the simplest part: Obviously, we’ll need a custom attribute to flag those DateTimeOffset properties our solution shall handle. Create a new Class Library Project,…
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Today, I’d like to present another real-life example for aspect-oriented programming and post-build reflection. The problem to be solved in a nutshell could be described as follows: How to store date / time values including timezone offset efficiently in an…
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The short story: I recently received a bug ticket stating that records in a many-to-many relationship table in our SQLite database are not deleted when deleting one of the base objects. My first assumption was that this problem occurs due…
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After examining how the compiler converts C# 6 language expressions to IL code in the first part of this article, let’s check a few additional examples in order to find out how C# 6 code behaves when parsed using reflection….
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C# 6 brings a lot of new language features that can ease up a developer’s life. Technically, these are pure compiler features, meaning that no new version of the .NET framework is necessary – but what is going on behind…
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