XAML Fundamentals for Web & Mobile: Building a Data Bound Menu
đź•“ 4 MIN WinUI contains classes for menus belonging to a Window and context menus attached to other controls. Users will be familiar with menus in traditional desktop applications and mobile devices. Unlike previous Windows APIs, the WinUI MenuBar and MenuBarItem do not support data binding, so you must build your menu tree from MenuFlyoutItem, MenuFlyoutSubItem, and MenuFlyoutSeparator, […]
Uno Platform 4.6: Hello .NET 7!
đź•“ 7 MIN Today we are announcing support for .NET 7. Our sixth release of 2022 is a massive step towards creating the most productive platform for building .NET-based applications which run everywhere. Our end-to-end application development story is increasingly converging. Of course, using only one of the parts, such as our core UI work, will speed up […]
From Figma to Visual Studio – Adding Back-End Logic to Goodreads App
đź•“ 5 MIN Now that we have three working views from our previous articles (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), we can consume them in an Uno Platform App right from Visual Studio. The Uno Platform Figma plugin has two tabs of interest, the XAML tab, and the Themes tab. The XAML tab houses the generated code for […]
DotNetConf 2022 – Three days of .NET Everything – .NET 7, Uno Platform and more
đź•“ 3 MIN Every year we look forward to November, which means .NET Conf is around the corner, a chance for the .NET community and contributors to get together and share knowledge, learning, tips, and some good times. This year is no different as we look ahead to the largest virtual .NET conference. Join the .NET community on […]
Uno Platform Roadmap 2023 Survey
đź•“ 2 MIN TLDR: Take the Uno Platform 5-minute survey to help us decide on 2023 priorities. Take Uno Platform 2023 Survey The Road Ahead Every year we run a survey to help us decide Uno Platform’s big priorities in the year to come. We are talking about big rocks we should focus on. Please continue raising the […]
Replicating Goodreads App Book Detail Page in Figma and Uno Platform
đź•“ 6 MIN In the previous articles, I demonstrated the step-by-step processes of recreating the Home and Author pages of the Goodreads app using Figma and the Uno Platform Material Toolkit and how to generate the UI code using Uno Platform’s Figma Plugin. In this segment, I will be recreating our final UI, the Book Profile Page, before […]
How to Quickly Build Goodreads Author Page with Figma and Uno Platform
đź•“ 7 MIN For the second page of our Goodreads tutorial, we recreate the Author Page using Uno Platform’s open-source Plugin for Figma and Material Toolkit and generate the accompanying XAML code. Using the same approach, you can quickly build complete UIs for Uno Platform applications at lightning speed. Uno Platform brings a leading code generation plugin and […]
Uno Platform Placed in Early Majority per InfoQ .NET Trend Report 2022
đź•“ 4 MIN InfoQ included Uno Platform in its latest report titled “InfoQ .NET Trends Report 2022”. Toolkit Labs is now the second developer tooling, open-source community project ported to web using Uno Platform, in addition to NuGet Package Explorer we announced last year. Why Is This Important? InfoQ is one of the most influential IT publications that […]
Recreating Amazon Goodreads App Home Page Using Material UI, Figma and Uno Platform
đź•“ 10 MIN Figma is a great tool UX/UI designers use to create stunning interactive renders of UIs for a vast assortment of software applications. Uno Platform released a Figma plugin earlier this year to bridge the UI design to code handoff. This plugin allows users to convert their material-based UI designs to XAML code which can be […]