When you work with custom renderers on Xamarin Forms (and it’s very difficult not to!) you often have to convert from Xamarin Forms types to their native platform equivalent. In the iOS and Android implementations Xamarin include some extension methods to easily convert Color to the native equivalent. Being the Cinderella of the Xamarin Forms […]
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WebAuthenticationBroker Hints
Anyone who has tried to use the WebAuthenticationBroker beyond the simplest of scenarios has probably run into problems and sometimes all you want is a good descriptive error message. Getting things setup just right often takes a certain amount of trial and error so I’m documenting a few things here which are the results of […]
I’ve updated InTheHand on NuGet and added the accompanying library containing UI functionality (InTheHand.UI). The main shared piece of functionality here is the MessageDialog (ala Windows.UI.Popups) and this works across all the Windows platforms (Including Windows Phone Silverlight) and iOS and Android. The appearance of the dialog is as the native experience with one exception… […]
With the impending release of Windows 10 I set about updating the Charming Apps libraries to support UWP targets and it soon became painfully clear that things had got too complicated. There was a separate dll for each small area of functionality and various dependencies and 17 NuGet packages to manage (each with multiple platforms). […]
Xamarin Forms doesn’t have a specific PasswordBox control – instead you use the Entry (Think TextBox) and set IsPassword to true. Normally this works as expected and provides a masked entry box. However there is a known issue on Windows Runtime (Phone and Desktop) where AutoSuggest and Auto Capitalisation are not disabled for a Password […]
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ShowEditNewAppointmentAsync Weirdness
The Windows.ApplicationModel.Appointments namespace in Windows 8.1 (and Windows Phone 8.1) provides access to the user’s calendar. Prior to Windows 10 there were big differences in the APIs as Phone had the existing capability to extend the calendar with app-specific calendars. Now the API is unified across Windows devices but there are some changes to be […]
Some time ago I created a subset of 32feet.NET to extend the Bluetooth functionality in Windows Phone 8.0. This was for the Silverlight app model and the only API at the time was based around the Proximity APIs. When Windows Phone 8.1 came along it brought a whole new Bluetooth (and Bluetooth LE) API which […]
There is new metadata query support in Windows 10 to allow your code to react at runtime based on which APIs are available. For example if running on a phone device you may want to start a call, and offer alternative actions on a desktop PC. The correct way to check the availability is to […]
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Moving Forwards: Geolocation
Recently I open-sourced a number of Compact Framework projects and when I was working on re-writing an application which used them as a Windows Runtime app I started to think about how much of the code might be useful for app projects. Obviously the API surface for Windows Runtime is totally different to the .NET Compact […]
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