After giving a short overview of some common use-cases of ReactiveUI interactions, this time I’d like to discuss a few approaches for tweaking and fine-tuning interactions for most easy usage! Fire-and-forget broadcast The first application of interactions I presented in…
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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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As a follow-up to the series of articles targeting XAML event binding, I promised to give an overview of the new possibilities UWP’s {x:Bind} syntax brings us: As I’ve mentioned before, the statement that direct binding of event handlers is…
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All the approaches we’ve been looking at so far are not sufficiently convenient in some way. In this artice, I’d like to present a solution that is really elegant – unfortunately, it has one major disadvantage. Surprise, surprise! This time,…
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In the next step, let’s take a look at an approach that eliminates two of the three major disadvantages of the solution using attached properties, namely performance issues and the fact that the event to be captured must be specified…
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In this article, I’d like to present a rather simple approach towards binding user events to Viewmodel commands in XAML in a shorter way than using behaviors and event triggers: This solution makes use of attached properties for defining both…
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The recommended way of coupling user control events and Viewmodel Commands is the use of behaviors or event triggers. This approach is available for most platforms and XAML dialects, although detailed implementations differ. Let’s take a look at how to…
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One of the core features of XAML is Data Binding. The {Binding …} syntax helps us enforcing the MVVM pattern in that it allows displaying data stored in a Viewmodel to the user, and writing back data which was input…
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