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Asynchronous Model Validation

UPDATE: Kamil Grzybek commented on my article and pointed me in this direction: a blog post about Async OOP 2: Constructors by Stephen Cleary . While I still my post, I realize it is a bad practice.

Last week I found some great articles about Domain Driven Design . While I have been trying out various patterns and design principles like Clean Architecture and Domain Driven Design I was still finding out how to implement domain events. While doing some exercises I came up with a solution to validate domain entities with asynchronous validations which I want to share.

Using Google Sheet as CMS for your App - Part 1

Imagine you had an easy to understand CMS without too much overhead, just to add translations and a bit of content for your (Xamarin) app. A CMS with an “excel-like” interface, an interface most of your customers would understand without even a training? Say “Hi” to Google Sheets & Azure Functions!

Using an Arduino with Xamarin for Mac

It’s all about first times: my first Xamarin.Mac app and my first Arduino connection with a Mac. I am going to explain how I connected an Arduino to a Xamarin.Mac app to create a “pomodoro-like” timer.

Google Places Api

The Google Places API can be used to find locations and their details like geolocation, address and other data. It returns a predicted list of locations based on the input string. In this post I will show some details about the plugin I created.

Using MediatR in an MvvmCross App

Intro

A while ago I was listening to a podcast from DotNetRocks about Clean Architecture . Around the same time I read something about a Clean Architecture template which happens to be from Steve Smith , the same guy talking about it on the DotNetRocks show.