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Description
This week, James is joined yet again by friend of the show Matthew Soucoup, who shows us how to extend the built-in capabilities of any View in Xamarin.Forms with little gems of awesomeness known as Behaviors. Matt demonstrates what a Behavior is, and how these reusable classes can expand the Xamarin.Forms controls functionality without having to subclass controls or modify the code-behind files.
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- Code used in show
- Documentation: Xamarin.Forms Behaviors
- Reusable Command to Action Behavior
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The Discussion
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Me Ask You You beard makes you look like Yusuf Islam. No pun intended.
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CodeGrue How do Behaviors differ from Effects? They seem very similar.
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MattSoucoup @CodeGrue:They are very similar, both used to add additional features!
You generally use an Effect for a small styling/UI change to a control. And the change you want to make has to be done in a platform specific way.
Behaviors on the other hand are extending the functionality of the control - like adding validation. And the functionality that you're adding does not need to tap into anything platform specific.
Quick way to keep them straight ... Effects=UI ... Behaviors=Functionality.
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