While working on the mobile apps for McAllen Next (my new side project, stay tuned for more soon!), I discovered a very strange issue when running the app on Android; I kept getting repeated errors like this: Binding: ‘IsLoading’ property not found on ‘RegionModel’, target property: ‘Xamarin.Forms.Label’ and as such, the UI would not bind […]
Tag: C#
Sometimes it’s the little things you forget the easiest and most often that throw you for a loop. Today I was attempting to show a value in an ASP.NET MVC View which is stored as type long, representing a monetary amount in cents. I formatted it as currency: @string.Format(“{0:c}”, Model.Subtotal / 100) But when I […]
It’s no secret that I love Windows, and especially writing UWP apps for Windows using C#. In fact I’ve written a bit about creating UWP apps in the past, so as a fan of UWP, I wanted to explore how one can leverage the Google Cloud Platform and other Google services in Windows apps.
This post describes the need for and implementation of a UniformGrid layout control that, when used with a ListView, allows the repeated elements to appropriately stretch to a consistent size to achieve a grid-like layout. Grid Layouts: Simple but Static In our last post we looked at the new RelativePanel control, which we used in the […]
This is post 1 of 14 in the series “Developing for Windows 10” Today is a big day in the history of Microsoft; the long-awaited Windows 10 release is finally here, bringing a whole new level of interactivity, security, productivity and entertainment. And with it comes a whole a whole new App Development model designed to […]
I recently needed the ability to combine two images on Windows Phone 8.1 (WinRT not Silverlight) so that one overlays the other, like a watermark. Because the watermark image was a fixed size and dimension, we also needed to make sure that the photo being merged shared the same aspect ratio (in this case a […]
You may already know that, due to its lightweight architecture, ASP.NET MVC makes it simple to get a website up and running. But another advantage to such a manageable framework is how simple it is to implement any necessary component with just the bare minimum functionality. One such requirement is the need to enforce Forms […]