Hands-On Mobile Development with .NET Core

Value converters

Value converters can be described as simple translation tools that implement the IValueConverter interface. This interface provides two methods, which allow the translation of the source to the target, as well as from the target to the source to support various binding scenarios.

For instance, if we were to display the release date of an item from our inventory, we would need to bind to the respective property on ItemViewModel. However, once the page is rendered, the result is less than satisfactory:

In order to format the date, we can create a value converter, which is responsible for converting the DateTime value to a string: ...