Never ever use Task.Result in Xamarin.Forms! Why?
I recently stumbled over a deadlock in our code. Someone called a method, that returned a Task, and instead of awaiting it, he called: I reason for this code was just plain...
Remove whitespaces of a string in C#
This seems to be really simple, so why am I writing this blog post? Everyone I asked, had a different idea to achieve this, the first idea was to use Regular Expressions,...
Dynamically create controls in Xamarin Forms
This is a very broad topic. You can actually always dynamically create controls in code behind, by just adding them to the UI during runtime. This is very easy, but it’s not...
Copy an entire synced Realm
In our company, we use realm.io as mobile Database with the ROS Cloud to sync data between mobile devices and the server. Main advantage is, that we can build Apps in a...
Move Controls in Xamarin.Forms App with your finger
…or Mouse.. or Pen.. or nose, whatever you like. In WPF this is very easy accomplished, because Drag&Drop is a main UI feature in Windows. Each OS implements this feature slightly different,...
Xamarin.Forms FlowLayout
Motivation I recently faced the challenge to add Items of different sizes to a Page on a Xamarin.Forms App. The result should be some kind of a Dashboard with Diagrams and info...
Margin,Padding,Border?
A colleague of me is always pretty unsure what to set. So he always looks it up, so maybe one day he will find this post.. This is for you Fabian.
Adding Themes to Xamarin.Forms App
I just want to make some short notes about themes in Xamarin.Forms Apps, since there are already a lot of tutorials available online, that go way deeper. Themes Themes are actually ResourceDictionaries....
CSC : error CS1703: Multiple assemblies with equivalent identity have been imported (iOS)
I recently encountered a problem compiling my Xamarin.Forms iOS project. Everything worked well when testing the UWP App during development, but when I tried to test the iOS project, the compiler threw...
read and write properties on dynamic objects in .NET/C#
Ok, the headline sounds a little bit funny, because first of all, dynamic objects have no properties. Also you can not use reflection on a dynamic type, because it’s dynamic. What I...