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Xamarin: Getting Started With Prism 7

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In today’s article, I will discuss some of the essential improvements of Prism 7 for Xamarin as well as the minimum steps to get you up and running using Prism 7 in Xamarin forms, so let’s get started.

.NET Standard Support

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The long awaited .NET support for prism has arrived. It was during the 6.3 version days that I was having some problems with PCL projects wherein the more profiles that you select the less .NET APIs you can use but nevertheless .NET Standard will save the day.

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XAMARIN: GETTING STARTED WITH PRISM – MESSAGING

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For the last part of this Getting started Xamarin with Prism series, I would like to discuss about using  Messaging in Xamarin forms. We will use our previous project from our Part3 of the getting started series and here is the link for the Repository: https://github.com/KirkPatrickJunsay/XamarinPrismSample

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Xamarin: GETTING STARTED WITH PRISM 6 (PART 2) – Command

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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.

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Xamarin: Getting Started With Prism 6(Part 1)

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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:

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