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AdalException : authentication_ui_failed with ADAL and Xamarin Forms Android

March 10, 2018 Mar 10, 2018 03/10/18
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In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Joe Healy identifies a possible error you may get when working with an Android project on Xamarin Forms. Read about his discovery and eventual solution to fix the SSL/TLS implementation issue.Recently, I was helping a client with an Azure Active Directory integrated project (ADAL not MSAL for some ...

Monitor your Xamarin Forms application with Mobile Center

August 11, 2017 Aug 11, 2017 08/11/17
Pam Lahoud
This article on using Mobile Center to monitor your Xamarin Forms application comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Gustavo Varo. More and more customers are asking about Mobile Center and how it can help them to monitor and analyze the customer experience. A lot of customers mentioned that they know about Mobile Center, they ...

Validate input in Xamarin.Forms using INotifyDataErrorInfo, custom Behaviors, Effects and Prism

April 3, 2017 Apr 3, 2017 04/3/17
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In this post, Senior Application Development Manager, Davide Zordan, explores the rich set of validation features in Xamarin.Forms. I have recently been investigating the support available in Xamarin.Forms for validation and, in particular, researched the possibility of using INotifyDataErrorInfo to complement the traditional approach of ...

New project type has XAML forms by default

October 17, 2016 Oct 17, 2016 10/17/16
Pam Lahoud
Recently on his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Joe Healy highlighted some new templates available to Xamarin developers in Visual Studio.  See below for the full article, but also be sure to check out Joe’s DevFish blog for lots more great content! Xamarin has some great documentation. The article at [ https://developer.xamarin.com/...

Referencing a PCL project in both ASP.NET Core and Xamarin Forms

October 3, 2016 Oct 3, 2016 10/3/16
Pam Lahoud
Thanks to Premier Developer Consultant Gustavo Varo for this prescriptive guidance on cross-platform development with Xamarin and ASP.NET Core. Back in March while working with Xamarin Forms and ASP.NET Core, I identified the need of sharing some code between both projects. My very first idea was to create a PCL (Portable Class Library) ...

xam.plugins.connectivity – all APIs Sample

June 24, 2016 Jun 24, 2016 06/24/16
Monu Bambroo
In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Joe Healy shows a fantastic cross platform plugin for working with connectivity scenarios in Xamarin. The plugin works with iOS, Windows UWP, Android, using Forms as well as native targets. The repository has full source code  for the plugin. The repo also has some lightweight ...