Dan Siegel | All posts by dan-siegel

Dan Siegel

San Diego, CA

Consultant, Prism Maintainer, Xamarin Forms Evangelist, and Microsoft MVP.

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Prism 9.0 Preview 1

Ok I know I might start sounding like Tim Cook "This is the biggest release yet". But seriously, Pri
Prism for .NET MAUI - Public Beta

Ok the name kind of gives it away, but Prism for .NET MAUI is now available as a Public Beta! We've been working hard the past year on Prism for .NET MAUI, and at times it felt almost impossible as every time I would catch up with the MAUI team there would be new breaking changes that made it all pointless... The great news is that .NET MAUI has finally reached a certain level of API stability and we've been able to make some incredible process along the way. You might be asking, "Isn't this really just Prism for Xamarin.Forms but built against .NET MAUI?"
Making DevOps Easy with Mobile.BuildTools

It's been quite a journey if I'm honest. In fact as I look back over the last several years it's really crazy too look at what the Mobile.BuildTools has transformed into from it's humble origins as a collection of PowerShell scripts I was tired of rewriting every time I started a new app. Spoiler, the Mobile.BuildTools 2.0 does so much for you over what 1.x could do I had to put together a full docs site and json schemas for the configuration so that I could remember it all.
Shiny all the things - writing testable code

Shiny all the things as they say. If you aren't using Shiny for your Xamarin.Forms or Uno Platform apps, the question is why? We see a lot of people excited about UI libraries these days. While UI is always an important ingredient of any successful app, no app is complete without a resilient and testable architecture. This is one of the reasons why I use Shiny in all of my apps today. But what is Shiny, and why should you be using it?

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