Getting Started with React and JSX

Chris Shatrov Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, React Leave a Comment

I have been with Keyhole Software for nearly four years. Every time I write a new blog post it is about a new framework that I had to pick up and learn that year.

I write a lot of JavaScript daily, but previously never had the chance to start coding a project with React. But this year, I worked on a project with React. So as expected, I wanted to share my thoughts and my experiences with React.

In this post, I will give a quick introduction to React and talk about its main, most important, components. We will also take a peek at JSX and explain it, and show some code examples, which will help you have a better understanding of this library before you can move on to more complex things…

Java Microservices & React Development – Cross-Functional Team

Lauren Fournier Bogner Banking & Finance, Java, JavaScript, Microservices, React

Client Snapshot: Privately controlled and independent investment management firm. A cross-functional team of Keyhole Software consultants assisted a long-term client of Keyhole Software on various, concurrent initiatives. Primary efforts included Java / Spring Boot microservices and React applications. A selection of tasks completed follows: The team of Keyhole consultants helped support the client’s efforts to migrate its legacy applications into …

Azure Migration Plan

Keyhole Azure Migration Plan How To Migrate on-premise .NET enterprise applications to Azure Intended For CTOs, Directors, and Architects Goal To Get VP of Engineering, CIO, CSO, Legal, and Development Operations Working Together to Migrate the Organization to Azure ▸IntroductionTaking an existing application and migrating it to Azure, or any cloud offering, is a serious undertaking. Enterprise applications can power …

Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Azure Mobile App Service

Jeff Hopper .NET, Articles, Azure, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, Mobile, Tutorial, Xamarin 3 Comments

Earlier this month my friend Ryan introduced us to Getting Started with Xamarin Forms and Prism. In that post, Ryan started a mobile application to display blog posts which he called SimpleBlog.

In this article, I would like to continue that demonstration by adding a back-end server to persist and share these blogs. This will be accomplished using Azure’s Mobile App Service which falls within its free tier services.

Yes, you did read that right: you can spin up an Azure account and have access to try out many of Azure’s features. For instance, the example I am going to walk you through today can be hosted indefinitely without costing you anything, and to that, you could add nine more web, mobile, or API services. See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/ for more information.

There is no way I am going to be able to cover all the possibilities available in an Azure Mobile App service, much less what Azure has to offer. My intent in this post is to help “whet your appetite” on the possibilities by giving a quick overview of just two great frameworks that play great together: the Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Client mobile framework tied to an Azure Mobile Apps Service….

Getting Started with Xamarin Forms and Prism

Ryan Nguyen .NET, Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Mobile, Xamarin 3 Comments

In this blog, I’ll show you how easy it is to create an Android and iOS application using Xamarin Forms while utilizing Prism.

What are Xamarin Forms?
Xamarin Forms is a platform that allows developers to create native Android, iOS, and Windows applications while using the beloved C# programming language. 

An attractive feature of Xamarin Forms is that it uses a shared C# codebase to create a native user interface specific to their platform. Out of the box, Xamarin provides large collections of controls to get started. It also has the ability to access native platform features, such as camera access, GPS, text to speech, etc, by using the Dependency Service.

What is Prism?
According to the Prism website, Prism is defined as “a framework for building loosely coupled, maintainable, and testable XAML applications in WPF, Windows 10 UWP, and Xamarin Forms. Prism provides an implementation of a collection of design patterns that are helpful in writing well-structured and maintainable XAML applications, including MVVM, dependency injection, commands, EventAggregator, and others.” In other words, Prism helps users to write better code….