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Upgrade to C# 7.1

Async Main (C# 7.1)

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Another new feature in C# 7.1 is the ability to make a console app deal with Async. Have you ever written a test console app to call an async function; for example, what will this do?

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    MyAsyncFunc();
 
    Console.WriteLine("done");
    
}
 
static async Task MyAsyncFunc()
{
    await Task.Delay(1000);
}

I’m pretty sure that I’ve been asked a question similar to this during an interview, and probably asked the question myself when interviewing others. The way around it in a console app previously was:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    MyAsyncFunc().GetAwaiter().GetResult();
 
    Console.WriteLine("done");
    
}

However, in C# 7.1, you can do this:

static async Task Main(string[] args)
{
    await MyAsyncFunc();
 
    Console.WriteLine("done");
    
}

Upgrading the Project

Unlike other new features of 7.1, this feature doesn’t afford you the ability to “Control Dot” it. If you try to do this in C# 6, for example, it just won’t compile:

To upgrade, go to the Advanced tab in the Build menu (of project properties):

References

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/1695

MVVM Cross Upgrade to 4.2.2

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Coming back to MVVMCross and trying to create a new project, I found that some of the documentation available for the new version (4.2.2 at the time of writing this) is no longer correct; for example, the ToDo file in the sample projects still looks like this:

The steps to get this Store UI working are:

1. Add a reference to your Core PCL project
2. Change App.Xaml.cs so that it creates a ‘new Setup(RootFrame)’ during its OnLaunched:

protected override void OnLaunched(LaunchActivatedEventArgs args)
{
var rootFrame = Window.Current.Content as Frame;

// Do not repeat app initialization when the Window already has content,
// just ensure that the window is active
if (rootFrame == null)
{
// Create a Frame to act as the navigation context and navigate to the first page
rootFrame = new Frame();

if (args.PreviousExecutionState == ApplicationExecutionState.Terminated)
{
//TODO: Load state from previously suspended application
}

// Place the frame in the current Window
Window.Current.Content = rootFrame;
}

if (rootFrame.Content == null)
{
// When the navigation stack isn’t restored navigate to the first page,
// configuring the new page by passing required information as a navigation
// parameter

var setup = new Setup(rootFrame);
setup.Initialize();

var start = MvvmCross.Core.Mvx.Resolve();
start.Start();
}
// Ensure the current window is active
Window.Current.Activate();
}

3. For Windows 8 – Add a views folder and a view – xaml.cs and .xaml based on BasicPage – this
will add 5 files to the Common folder.
– Change the Common/LayoutAwarePage.cs inheritance to MvvmCross.WindowsStore.Views.MvxStorePage
– Change the Common/LayoutAwarePage.cs – remove the OnNavigatedTo and OnNavigatedFrom handlers
– Add some content for your Xaml – e.g.

5. For Windows 8.1 – Add a views folder and a view based on the BasicPage template
– In the .xaml.cs – remove public NavigationHelper NavigationHelper and all referencing code
– In the .xaml.cs – remove the OnNavigatedTo and OnNavigatedFrom handlers
– Add some content for your Xaml – e.g.

This document was very useful. I was looking specifically at the Babel project in the above sample; this won’t compile under MvvmCross 4.2.2. I’ve listed here everything I needed to do to make it.

Mvx has now been replaced with MvxSimpleIoCContainer.Instance

In App.xaml.cs:

var start = MvxSimpleIoCContainer.Instance.Resolve<IMvxAppStart>();

Is now:

var start = MvxSimpleIoCContainer.Instance.Resolve<IMvxAppStart>();
start.Start();

In App.cs:

        private void InitializeText()
        {
            var builder = new TextProviderBuilder();
            Mvx.RegisterSingleton<IMvxTextProviderBuilder>(builder);
            Mvx.RegisterSingleton<IMvxTextProvider>(builder.TextProvider);
        }

Is now is a separate plug-in by the looks of things:

mvvmcrossupgrade

The new code is:

        private void InitializeText()
        {            
            var builder = new TextProviderBuilder();
            MvxSimpleIoCContainer.Instance.RegisterSingleton<IMvxTextProviderBuilder>(builder);
            MvxSimpleIoCContainer.Instance.RegisterSingleton<IMvxTextProvider>(builder.TextProvider);
        }