The National Action Plan (NAP), a path towards ending violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ peoples in response to the National Inquiry’s Calls for Justice has been released. The release of the report falls on the second anniversary of the final report from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The NAP includes highlights
Directory of Community Guidance on Agreements Relating to Agriculture or Forestry Investments
While there are a number of existing resources that can assist communities and their advocates in their interactions with investors over land from negotiating better agreements with investors, to monitoring whether investors fulfill the terms of their agreements these resources are not always easy to find. CCSI has created a detailed directory that lists relevant guides and other documents, provides links to the original documents, and includes brief descriptions of their content. This directory, provided as a Google document, is available here; it can be viewed online, downloaded, emailed, and printed.
Microsoft has refactored numerous packages in order to decouple dependencies when only a small number of components are being utilized in the app. In most scenarios, this has resulted in an 80-90% decrease in footprint size of the application. Most of these changes affect the Animations and Controls packages, so it is advisable that developers refer to Microsoft s documentation here in order to identify any breaking changes to their apps.
Windows Community Toolkit v7.0 also comes with a new MVVM library built on the foundations of platform-agnosticism, modularity, flexibility, and performance. The Microsoft.Toolkit.Mvvm package contains this library and since it targets .NET Standard, this means that it can be utilized on any platform that supports it, including UWP, WPF, Xamarin, and more. You can find out more about the new MVVM library here.
Microsoft has announced Windows Community Toolkit v7.0, the latest version of the extensions and controls designed to help make developing Windows apps easier and more intuitive. Here's what you need to know.
Last stop before MAUI: Xamarin Forms 5.0 released for cross-platform mobile, new features, new bugs
Microsoft s cross-platform .NET tools get a refresh, but with a relatively short life before newer tools sweep it away
Tim Anderson Mon 11 Jan 2021 // 19:59 UTC Share
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Microsoft has flung open the doors to Xamarin Forms 5.0, a major new version of its cross-platform framework targeting iOS, Android, and Windows 10.
Other target platforms such as macOS and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) are in varying degrees of readiness.
However, the company stated that the forthcoming Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) will replace Xamarin Forms, so jumping in now is only worth it for developers who plan a MAUI migration later.