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20 | 27 | |
5,761 | 5,632 | |
0.5% | -0.1% | |
5.0 | 6.5 | |
3 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
C# | C# | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Hello everyone, I made a Windows 10/11 Multitool app with Winforms. I'm just gonna share some screenshots.
GitHub/WCT/Controls/DataGrid (source code for the control)
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How did you guys get your first C# job?
Started programming by writing some apps for Windows Phone later UWP during university. A few years ago I started collaborating a lot on GitHub to some Microsoft projects, like the Windows Community Toolkit. There I created a lot of new APIs and libraries, like all the new animation APIs and pipeline brush APIs, etc. I then also proposed adding some general .NET APIs to it, and that's how the MVVM Toolkit was born, along with other libraries which are now moved to the .NET Community Toolkit. Fast forward until about late 2020, and they pinged me saying the new Microsoft Store (which hadn't been announced yet back then) was using several of those new APIs I had written, so we started collaborating more so that I could add more functionality they needed. After that shipped, at some point there was a new opening to which I applied, and here I am in the Microsoft Store team and also leading the .NET Community Toolkit 🙂
- Is it possible to use Windows Community Toolkit with .net7 wpf application?
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Why is there a lack of cool repos?
https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit (now multiplateform)
- Come si contribuisce ad un progetto open source?
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Does anyone here have a long background with Java before switching/using C#? What caused you to switch and what do you miss about Java that C# doesn't have?
For instance, recently Chaochao opened a PR for the Windows Community Toolkit to open source the whole custom animation helpers he developed for the Store, which are used to implement the morphing animations you see when scrolling in a product page. You can see a GIF and the whole code here and in the linked PR.
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Where is the source for Microsoft.Toolkit.MVVM?
Specifically I am looking for AsyncRelayCommand.cs. All documentation points to CommunityToolkit repo but I can not find it there. Link to source repo from the Nuget package also points to CommunityToolkit. I am not looking for samples.
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Modern WCF: Running CoreWCF in a Linux App Service
The report itself is just markdown that is rendered with the Community Toolkit's MarkdownTextBlock.
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Improve C# code performance with Span<T>
That's interesting. It will need some documentation and to finish the renaming at some point, e.g. Span2D is in https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/WindowsCommunityToolkit but as you say doesn't require Windows.
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Good C# Source Code
Windows Community Toolkit
Xamarin.Forms
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How To Update Picker To Property Value On Load
EDIT2: Yeah, https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/2751
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What are some of Xamarin Forms shortcomings/cons which Maui still doesn't address?
Example issue: https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/8640 Its an issue reported by David O, its a 3 year old issue, there is limited communication from Microsoft on the issue, no plans, there are a couple of community discovered workarounds that got broken in later versions of Xamarin.Forms. I feel like its fairly common to come across an issue like this that can be a showstopper for a task. Do you come up with a workaround, do you wait for an official fix, do you use a third-party NuGet to accomplish the task?
- Is it possible to change text colour in the pop up generated by a date picker in Android?
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Have teams that migrated to Visual Studio 2022 with their Xamarin Forms app experienced a smooth transition?
The deploying is also very buggy in my project, see this post: https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/15253
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Overwhelmed by different technolgies for projects in C#, are there any resources of various projects I can follow?
Xamarin, it is "cross-platform" in the sense that it makes cross-platform applications, for Android and IOS and Windows. There are some implementations of Xamarin for other platforms like Linux (GTK#) or MacOs, but they're not really mature and stable yet. See https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/wiki/Platform-Support for more details.
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collectionview scroll to mvvm
It appears there is no view binding for this function... I've been googling around and saw this post https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/10254 , but I can't implement it properly. It fails out with a dictionary exception.
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Legacy Xamarin Native App, stick with Xamarin Native or change to Xamarin Forms / Maui?
You asked a bunch of questions there, I will try to answer them separately. 1) I am a XN expert and have a ton of experience in it, and from my research, it’s extremely difficult to get an experienced xamarin native developer. Xamarin Native is amazing experience to have, but There’s literally NO WAY left for someone to train themselves in xamarin native and I wrote about that here https://blog.devgenius.io/usingxamarinuniversitytolearnmobiledevelopment-808b6dec3e8b?sk=1c196f32400196f14dff7359f8ee51c0 So yes, I highly recommend running away from using xamarin native apps. Companies are having such a hard time finding experienced devs at regular rates. So anything is better really. 2) As to what language to select, Cross Platform >> Swift/Kotlin, these are also specialized skills that are just as rare to find both of in one senior skilled developer. Microsoft is actually putting in a lot of effort into building out the new Maui platform which is a piece of cake for xamarin forms developers to learn. There’s several migration tools already built as well, and the advantage of using Xamarin for you would be that you can keep your ViewModel layer exactly the same, you just have to build your view layer (also pretty easy to do with hot reload). Finally, it is important to note that more than 50% of ALL new mobile app development is moving towards React Native. The ability to use typescript (TS) instead of JavaScript removed the biggest negative against RN. Also keep in mind there’s no easy way of migrating from Xamarin Native to Xamarin forms except for starting a Xamarin forms app from scratch because of This issue https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/8153
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Stacklayout cutting off some content on Android
BTW this is the reported issue, please comment to push xamarin team look over it and maybe fix the bug
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Shell App Navigation Error on Android: "Ambiguous routes matched"
I'm worried that I'm experiencing this unresolved issue on GitHub.
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Miliseconds of irresponsiveness when Xamarin opens a view for first time. Is this a Xamarin thing?
If you're using shell on Android, this is a prevelant problem as your binding count grows. There has been a bug open on the Xamarin team for two years that keeps getting pushed in favor of MAUI work. https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/7521
What are some alternatives?
MahApps.Metro - A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.
Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.
ReactiveUI - An advanced, composable, functional reactive model-view-viewmodel framework for all .NET platforms that is inspired by functional reactive programming. ReactiveUI allows you to abstract mutable state away from your user interfaces, express the idea around a feature in one readable place and improve the testability of your application.
AvalonEdit - The WPF-based text editor component used in SharpDevelop
Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono
ScintillaNET - A Windows Forms control, wrapper, and bindings for the Scintilla text editor.
Eto.Forms - Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET
metroframework-modern-ui - My humble attempt to bring the new Modern UI alias Metro UI of Windows 8 to .NET Windows Forms applications.
Fluent.Ribbon - WPF Ribbon control like in Office