Hi everyone, here is the second part of my Xamarin Tips series. Just as a reminder. The posts I’ll make for this series will have as case study a simple app. It will be about how I used features available in Xamarin Forms to produce unique UI for the app. The app’s name is :…
A Look At New Xamarin Forms Features
Hello, everyone. Xamarin Forms has been evolving quickly and a few weeks after Xamarin Forms 3.0 was announced, the version 3.1 (3.2 will soon be released as stable version) was already released. As developers we have to stay up to date with the changes made to the frameworks we use. I was looking at xamarin…
Xamarin Forms Tips Part 1: Xamarin Forms Entry With Character Max Length And Counter
Hi guys, When building your Xamarin.Forms application there are several tips you should take into consideration to improve user experience. The Xamarin.Forms framework makes it easier to build cross platform applications, but, you can customize its functionalities for your use case. Personalizing your application, and adding additional functionalities not difficult. But for anyone new to…
How To Resolve Microsoft.Net.Native.Runtime .2.1-rel not found
Hello everyone. Today I decided to make a small post about a problem which has annoyed me seriously last weekend, and how to resolve it. I make this post for those who may have encountered this issue and don’t know how to resolve it. I also go a little bit into the details of how…
How To Get A Device Owner’s Current User Name With Xamarin Forms
Hi everyone, what’s up ?. I’m sure if you are reading this post, you may be looking for a means to have the name of your users on your app. Without having to ask them for it. If that is the case, you are at the right place. This is something tricky to accomplish, but…
5 Xamarin.Forms Debugging Nightmares And Their Solutions
What’s up everyone ?. This week we are going to talk about Xamarin.Forms debugging. I know, it’s been a while since I made a blog post about Xamarin.Forms. But, I had to explore other lands of the vast software development kingdom 😄. My journey away from Xamarin.Forms could have been longer, but I decided to…
How To Detect Global Mouse Hooks In A C# Console Application
Hello friends, this week we will look at another low level programming topic with C#. We are going to do something which normally is not possible with C#. That is, Listening to global mouse hooks (Mouse clicks every where on your screen) with a C# console application. The guys who built the classes used for writing console…
How To Access A PC’s Hardware and USB Ports With C sharp ManagementObjectSearcher and Registry
Hi, everyone. This week, we will discuss about something different. We will use C# to play with the guts of our PCs. C# is a great OOP language and yes, it permits us to do some bare metal stuff with our code. Though in this domain C and C++ are more efficient, we can still…
5 Reasons Why LINQ Can Be Addictive For Every .Net developer
Hello everyone, today we are going to discuss the reasons why LINQ can be addictive. I’m a .Net developer and ever since I learned LinQ and mastered it, I just can’t give up on it. I feel like saying LINQ is one the best addition made to an Object Oriented Programming language. If you are…
LiteDB on Xamarin Forms as an Alternative to SQLite
Hello guys what’s up ?. When building a Xamarin Forms application, persisting data locally is done mostly with SQLite. SQLite is widely used to persist data in mobile applications. While SQLite is widely used and there are libraries which function as ORM for interactions with SQLite databases in .Net applications, you may need another solution…