On 20th July, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2015. This release of Visual Studio includes improvements in terms of IDE features, Language features and even changes in underlying .NET framework. Along with this, Microsoft is also releasing Windows 10 on 29th … Continue reading →

I’m sure by now you’re aware of the great amount of Plugins available for Xamarin. There’s plugins for almost everything, connectivity, localstorage, settings etc etc. Generally these plugins are very easy to use, you can download from nuget and start using in a few single lines. Most of the documentation/blogs will show the single liners. Which sounds […]

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One of the most popular features of Xamarin.Forms is the ability to use your existing XAML experience to build UIs for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Moments, a Snapchat clone built with Xamarin.Forms and Microsoft Azure, originally made use of the C# API for creating user interfaces. Today, I’m happy to announce that Moments has […]

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James Montemagno is a Developer Evangelist at Xamarin and Microsoft MVP. He has been a .NET developer for over a decade working in a wide range of industries  including game development, printer software, and web services.  Previously, James was a professional mobile developer and has now been crafting apps  using the Xamarin Platform for over 4 years. Today we discuss all things Xamarin.  Xamarin Dev Days: http://www.xamarin.com/dev-days  Xamarin.Forms: http://www.xamarin.com/forms  Xamarin University: http://www.xamarin.com/university  Xamarin Test Cloud: http://www.xamarin.com/test-cloud  Plugins for Xamarin: http://github.com/xamarin/plugins  James: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jamesmontemagno  James: Blog: http://motzcod.es  My Shoppe: https://blog.xamarin.com/connect-to-customers-with-my-shoppe-template-app/  Moments: https://blog.xamarin.com/build-your-own-snapchat-clone-with-xamarin.forms-and-azure/ Listen | … Continue reading →

When we announced Xamarin Dev Days, free weekend community events filled with intense and hands-on mobile C# learning, we knew that it would be popular – but we didn’t expect every location to sell out so quickly! Each Dev Days event has been packed full of awesome Xamarin content and fun hacking, and the feedback […]

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