In today’s article I would like to briefly discuss one of the commonly used design pattern in software engineering which is Singleton Pattern. Singleton pattern is usually being used if you are creating a system that only needs one instance of a class and that instance will be used throughout the lifecycle of the application. Common scenarios of using Singleton pattern is for logging, database access, etc.
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Xamarin: GETTING STARTED WITH PRISM 6 (PART 2) – Command
For the second part of this Getting started Xamarin with Prism series, I would like to discuss on how to use Command in Xamarin forms. By the way if you missed the Part 1 of this series you can check this article.
Command
When you say Command, for example in Win Forms it’s just an event that was fired
due to let’s say a button click or an event brought by textbox lost/on focus but in Xamarin
Commands are just methods that are directly binded from your view e.g. (Button, MenuItem, ToolbarItem) and executes the binded method in your ViewModel.
Xamarin: Getting Started With Prism 6(Part 1)
In today’s article I will discuss about the basic requirements you need to perform for running Xamarin Forms with Prism 6 framework. So what is Prism by the way, Prism is a framework which originated as a XAML application framework mainly during the early days of WPF. It was previously maintained by the Patterns and Practices division of Microsoft prior to becoming an open source platform. Here are the following features we can get for implementing Prism in our Xamarin forms:
C#:Basic Azure Storage Table Operations
Last time in our discussion on creating Azure storage table, using our developer’s account, we have successfully deployed our Azure storage using the M.S. Azure portal. We also used a tool called Azure Storage Explorer in creating our sample Table which also contains sample Entities. For today’s article I will teach you on basic operations, e.g. (Insert, Select, delete) you can perform on your Azure Storage using a C# Console application.
C#: Implementing NLog in your application
One time I have this application that was already deployed in the production area, the Business owner of the application informed me about the application encountered a system crash when certain operations were performed. I really had a hard time figuring what caused the abnormal termination because I didn’t implement a logging function. To make the story short, I learned my lesson that for every application developed, you should implement a logging function. So in today’s article I want to show you how to implement a NuGet called NLog for you C# applications.
Visual Studio 2015: Code Metrics
Many of us programmers have the mentality that it’s just okay to implement codes in anyway as long as it is running. Well to tell you the truth you should already change or move away from that kind of mindset. Software development has its own guidelines like abstraction, refinement, modularity and other same concepts that you can use to guide you during coding and avoid the so-called programming pasta. One tool I use in Visual Studio 2015 is Code Metrics. For today I will show you how to generate Code Metrics on your project. Then I plan to discuss deeper on the different code metrics in the next succeeding articles.
Microsoft Azure: Azure Table Storage
In today’s article I will discuss about one of the services provided by Microsoft Azure which is the Azure Table Storage. Now a days we are hearing more on NoSQL (Non SQL, Non Relational, Not Only SQL) which is being adapted by some big companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon because of it’s straight forward usage, high scalability, low latency and high performance. Later on this article we will try to create an Azure Storage table using the M.S. Azure portal then will create afterwards a sample table with sample fields using the Azure Storage Explorer.
C#:Processing Json Data
Whoops…. I was not referring to Jason of Friday the Thirteenth movie but to the JSON or JavaScript Object Notation data. Kidding aside JSON nowadays is the medium of data format interchange used for APIs which previously relies heavily in XML format. In today’s article I would like to show you on how to handle JSON data in terms of Serializing and Deserializing in C#.
C#: Enumerations
Enumerations or enums for short is a good programming practice to adapt, for me personally it improves the Readability and Maintainability of once programs. My experience in enums came from a project where in we are communicating to server to process the client data. We used enums to check if the request sent to the server was successful or not. To visualize the use of enums I created a sample application to simulate a scenario where connection test with server happens.
C#: How To Implement Events
I remember the time when my Team Lead asked me to implement an Event type solution for the problem that we have encountered in our previous projects. It was my first time to implement such technique and I was kinda daunted of the said task. In today’s session I’m going to discuss, in the most simplest manner, about raising and consuming events with and without parameters.
EVENTS
What are Events? Events are way for a Class to provide notifications for its clients. Do you remember when we use a button in a Windows form? When we double click the button it will navigate to Button Click which is an event. It is heavily used in GUI related matters but is still very useful for objects to signal if there were any state changes.
Code Unboxing 