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Mastering Xamarin UI Development

You're reading from   Mastering Xamarin UI Development Build robust and a maintainable cross-platform mobile UI with Xamarin and C# 7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788995511
Length 584 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Steven F. Daniel Steven F. Daniel
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Preface 1. Setting Up Visual Studio for Mac FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a PhotoLibrary App Using Android 3. Building a SlidingTiles Game Using Xamarin.iOS 4. Creating the TrackMyWalks Native App 5. MVVM and Data Binding 6. Navigating Within the Mvvm Model 7. Adding Location-based Features Within Your App 8. Customizing the User Interface 9. Working with Animations in Xamarin.Forms 10. Working with the Razor Templating Engine 11. Incorporating Microsoft Azure App Services 12. Making Our App Social Using the Twitter API 13. Unit Testing Your Xamarin.Forms Apps 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Updating the WalksMainPage code-behind using C#

Now, we have updated our BaseViewModel class to include a property that references our RestWebService class. Our next step is to begin updating the underlying C# code within our WalksMainPage code-behind file so that it can communicate with our RestWebService class and the associated ViewModel to populate our ListView with information from our WalkDataModel, which we will populate from our SQL Server database within the Microsoft Azure platform.

Let's take a look at how we can achieve this by going through the following steps:

  1. Locate and open the WalksMainPage.xaml.cs file, which is located within the Views folder, and ensure that it is displayed within the code editor. Enter the following highlighted code sections:
    //
// WalksMainPage.xaml.cs
// Displays Walk Information within a ListView control from an array...
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