Demo – Working on Home Automation with Xamarin, Uno Platform, IoT and Azure IoT central
đź•“ < 1 MIN Now you are no longer only a mobile developer – now you are also an IoT developer! Allan Pead, a Microsoft MVP from South Africa delivered a talk to MSDUG, taking the code sharing to the extreme. It is a Home Automation application he developed for his own purpose, in his own house. Watch below […]
Porting the Contoso UWP showcase application to Uno Platform
đź•“ 8 MIN Connor Park, a Microsoft MVP and blogger from Korea recently ported the Contoso showcase application from being desktop-only, UWP application to a cross-platform application using UWP and Uno Platform. The source code is available in GitHub for you to try and learn from it. Equally importantly, Connor took the time to capture lessons learned during […]
Blazor WebAssembly (client-side) with AOT and SkiaSharp
đź•“ 3 MIN As we’re working to stabilize our .NET 5 support for Uno Platform, and particularly Full AOT and Profile Guided AOT, it seemed natural to experiment and validate if the work we’ve been doing could also benefit Blazor. There is always something we learn when we experiment and help push the WebAssembly toolchain forward, so top-notch […]
Webcast: What’s new with Uno Platform, .NET 5 and WinUI 3 Preview 3
đź•“ < 1 MIN TLDR: On December 17th we will hold our first office-hours-style webinar to tell you all about our support for .NET 5 and WinUI 3 Preview 3. Register now. Adding support for .NET 5 in Uno Platform creates multiple opportunities to improve performance and reduce solution complexity. With .NET 5, we can better target traditional Microsoft […]
Uno Platform 3.3 – Day 0 support for WinUI 3 Preview 3, Android 11
đź•“ 3 MIN WinUI 3.0 Preview 3 is a big step towards shipping the final version of WinUI. We at Uno Platform team are happy to report that Uno Platform already works with the latest WinUI preview. Our sincerest thanks to WinUI team who keeps us posted on their progress and allows us to make modifications to Uno […]
Markup vs Code for UI – Angled Brackets, yay or nay?
đź•“ 7 MIN We frequently get asked about our opinion, and direction Uno Platform will take, about declarative code vs markup. In good product (and OSS project) management the question we need to ask ourselves is not *could* we build something, but also *should* we build something. One of our core team members and architects on Uno Team […]
Uno Platform 3.2: .NET 5, C# 9 support and .NET 5 WebAssembly AOT Support
đź•“ 4 MIN The 3.2 release is loaded with features and performance improvements. Most of the release focused on upcoming .NET 5 and all benefits Uno Platform gets from building on top of it. However, we are also releasing improvements to the controls and tooling we introduced in previous releases. Adding preview support for .NET 5 and .NET […]
Consuming a Web Service from Uno Platform – Cats API Client
đź•“ < 1 MIN This how-to will walk you through the process of creating a multi-platform application that leverages web services. This blog post is courtesy of Daren May, software architect, Microsoft MVP and developer trainer who contributed this article to Uno documentation. The resulting Uno WebAssembly application looks like the below animated gif. The same application also runs […]
Beyond Uno Platform “Getting Started” – Navigation, Platform Specific XAML and C#, MVVM, JavaScript interop and more
đź•“ 3 MIN Andrew Hoefling, a Microsoft MVP, speaker, trainer and as of recently Uno Platform contributor dedicated a blog series with getting started guides and code samples to help you get up and running quickly with Uno Platform Apps. Getting Started & Project Configuration Uno Platform is a cross-platform app development platform that uses C# and the […]
