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Xamarin.Forms Floating Action Button

This article is a review of the Xamarin.Forms NuGet package, Floating Action Button (FAB). Here, we’ll be discussing what the library is, and how to use MVVM binding with Prism.Forms’ Navigation Service, and then finish up with some of the pros/cons of the library. For the full project, check out my GitHub page, Learn.FloatingActionButton, which this article references. I stumbled upon the Floating Action Button while responding to an inquiry made on the Xamarin Slack in regards to the forums thread, “Can I maintain a single static navigation service from Prism.Forms“. If you’re wondering, I’m, “User29117“. What is it? The…

Unit Testing Events with Timeouts

Ever need to perform a unit test on and want to timeout while waiting for an event? Doing a quick google search for, “C# unit test timeout waiting for event” yields interesting mixed results. Here are a few different methods for completing such a task. Method 1 – Task.WhenAny The following uses the System.Threadding.Task.WhenAny method wrapped inside of our async method, WaitUntil(..). Th Method 2 – Synchronous ManualResetEvent Slightly different implementation without the use of Tasks. Method 3 – TaskCompletionSource Method 4 – Task.WhenAny Asyncronyously awaiting Task.WhenAny allows you to provide a delay as you can see below.

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Xamarin.Forms Floating Action Button

Unit Testing Events with Timeouts