A very convenient feature included in ReactiveUI version 7 is called Interactions. In this blog post, I’d like to give a short overview of how to use interactions and (which might be even more interesting for hardcore developers) how to…
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After having updated all the MVVM commands to follow the ReactiveUI 7 style as described in my previous blog post, there a few more things in the code I wasn’t fully content with: All the code lines for command declaration…
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One of my Xamarin projects uses ReactiveUI as MVVM framework. Since version 7 of ReactiveUI is roughly a year old by now, I recently (finally) scheduled some time to clean up my code base and migrate everything to use the…
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Remember the simple PDF renderer I presented a few weeks ago? Back then, I promised to show two different versions of PDF viewers – well, here is the second one! And, as you might have guessed, in this one we’ll…
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As a follow-up to the simple SinglePagePdfViewer proposed in the previous blog post, let me suggest a potential performance improvement. At the moment, whenever one of the navigation buttons is tapped, we load the appropriate page, render it and display…
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If you’ve liked the idea of the simple and quick PDF preview renderer I presented in my previous blog post and wish to avoid referencing third party licenses for displaying full PDF documents as well, this is for you –…
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One of the less well known features of UWP is encapsulated in the Windows.Data.Pdf namespace: This includes classes for reading PDF documents and rendering them. On first sight, this seems hardly useful in any real-life app, since it doesn’t support…
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Remember my blog post about automatically choosing appropriate DataTemplates for an ItemsControl (such as a ListView) by using a DataTemplateSelector? This certainly is useful for items that shall be visualized using different controls, but definitely overkill for scenarios that just…
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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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