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Corrado Cavalli

I’m a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, former Xamarin/Microsoft MVP and, when not in front of a monitor, a passionate mountain biker and ski tourer.

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Aug 25, 2016

Beware of generated XAML in UWP

I admit, this is s strange blog post title but that’s what this post is going to talk about.

I’m working on a UWP app that has different min and target runtimes:

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Aug 12, 2015

Blend 2015: Cannot add additional fields to a type… error

Yesterday repaved my machine and installed Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2015, I then loaded one of the projects I’m working on and I’ve a been shocked to discover that none of my views was rendering in Blend 2015 because of this…

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Feb 21, 2015

Behaviors for Xamarin Forms v2.0

I’ve pushed version 2.0 of my behavior implementation for Xamarin Forms and moved it to a new location on GitHub: https://github.com/corradocavalli/Corcav.Behaviors

The reason for this is that, in order to prevent conflict with Xamarin API I’ve…

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Sep 3, 2014

Introducing Xamarin Forms Behaviors

The goal of this post is to introduce you to the Xamarin.Forms.Behavior package available on NuGet, if you landed here I presume you already know what Xamarin Forms is, if not, follow this link so you’ll understand why so many developers are excited about it.

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Jan 10, 2014

The tale of a GridViewItem customization

Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away, there was a guy (me

) who was working on a Windows Store 8.1 application and was asked to create a GridView whose items should look like this picture:

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Dec 27, 2013

Debug design time issues in Blend 2013

In 2010 (wow! that’s a long time ago…) I blogged about how to debug Blend design time exceptions, since then things have changed, Blend and Visual studio designer merged and so the XAML designer is now hosted in a separate process named XDesProc.exe (at least in…

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Aug 7, 2013

Blend can’t locate types in external assemblies

While developing a Windows Store app I run into a Blend issue that caused me some headache.

I tend to define common converters in external assemblies in order to reuse them in other projects, so i added a reference to a…