In this blog post we will be making our first custom control, this will be very simple control using XAML in Xamarin.Forms.

Last month I made a blogpost/tutorial where I used DependencyService and I got some email question related to that, so I decided to make a blog post about DepdendencyService.

I am very exiced to write this blog post. First time I seen EF was in ASPNET MVC and I fall in love with it, now when I am also very active in Xamarin Development, Entity Framework is something that I miss from my ASP.NET dev "world". With version Core 2.0 all platforms Android, iOS and UWP (uwp soon) are supported so I decided to write this blog post.

In this blog post we will make simple app with Realm as mobile database and show how to make CRUD operations with Realm in Xamarin.Forms. Code for this project will be available on my GitHub page: https://github.com/almirvuk.

Last night I was finishing my university project from one of the software engineering subject, and I was asking my self "How to count the lines of code in a Visual Studio Solution?"... I did not now how so I google it and find the very easy way to do that so I realized I can make a quick and short blog post about this solution. 😁

A few days ago I was on Stackoverflow I was looking at some Xamarin related question, and I find this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43031120/difference-between-xamarin-forms-and-xamarin-cross-platform

In this tutorial I will make very simple implementation of IValueConverter in Xamarin.Forms. Till this day I was avoiding the IValueConverter for no reason but I hope after this blog post you will also use it more frequently. The title for this blog post can be also: Very simple usage of IValueConverter in Xamarin.Forms.

As you know I am playing with Xamarin.Forms for a while and last week I was involved in one projects where I needed to have ListView with data which is divided in some way... So perfect way was to have some control like pivot on UWP but in Xamarin.Forms as you know we have Tabbed page which is similar to pivot but binding and other data manipulation is different so I think that I found the way to use Tabbed page to divide data and group it with Tabbed Page.

Continuing this series of simple MVVM bindings in Xamarin.Forms. In this tutorial I will make simple ListView binding in XAML.

The blog content and future post are moved to almirvuk.com, and this blog post about Tabular and Multidimensional Model in one SQL Server 2016  is available here: https://almirvuk.com/tabular-and-multidimensional-model-in-one-sql-server-2016/