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Motz's Thoughts: Nintendo Switch

Last week something extremely interesting happened, when Nintendo was able to keep the announcement for their new console completely secret. They launched a short 3 minute 36 second trailer for their new console, the Nintendo Switch, and no one had any idea. No one knew the shape of the console, but the concept, joysticks, price, specs, games, name, or just about anything else besides the single rumor that it may be a “hybrid” that could bridge portable and home console. To me and to other this…

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Updating Azure Mobile SQLiteStore to 3.0

If you are using Azure Mobile Apps [https://github.com/Azure/azure-mobile-apps-net-client] as a backend for your Xamarin and Windows apps you may have seen a very fancy new 3.0 release pop up in NuGet. This is a super important update for the NuGet that brings in the amazing SQLite.raw [https://github.com/ericsink/SQLitePCL.raw] to ensure compatibility with changes in Android N [https://blog.xamarin.com/preparing-for-native-library-linking-changes-in-android-n/] . So what is new? Well accordin…

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Preparing Machines for Xamarin Cycle 8/iOS10/AndroidN

Today is the day for Android N, iOS 10, and new awesome release for both Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio with the latest release of Xamarin. All of this great support is now available in the stable channel and you may have already been prompted to update, but wait just one minute! This release has huge updates for iOS and Android that will require you to update Xcode, JDK, Android Tools, and a bunch more. The team at Xamarin has done an amazing job of documenting all of the requirement that you…

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Fix for Unsupported major.minor version 52.0

So, you just downloaded and installed Xamarin and ready to build your first Android application in C#. You select file -> new Android project and then build and get ready to run it on a simulator and BOOM it has either just deployed a beautiful “hello world” app… or you have some cryptic error message about an appt.exe error or more likely a unsupported version 52.0? WHAT? 99.9% of developers probably had this work just fine, but perhaps you already had Android Studio installed or you acci…

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Installing a PCL into netstandard Libraries (Plugins & Xamarin.Forms)

Last week we announced that Xamarin projects now support netstandard libraries [https://blog.xamarin.com/net-standard-library-support-for-xamarin/], which is awesome! I made a short video on how to get started and upgrade a PCL to a netstandard library that any application could consume. The first question I got was if I could install Xamarin.Forms into a netstandard library, and I quickly said I don’t think so, because when I tried Visual Studio and NuGet got all mad at me. This is because I d…

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Visual Studio Code, your new Markdown editor

I feel like I have been spoiled for a long time using macOS as there have been a plethora of great Markdown editors. Now that I am full time on a Surface Book and Windows 10 it saddened me that a version of Mou [http://25.io/mou/]wasn’t coming or planned at all. I write Markdown just about every day between the libraries on my GitHub [http://github.com/jamesmontemagno] and writing blogs and documentation. I have always used VS Code [https://code.visualstudio.com/]for just light weight text editi…

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So we started a podcast... Merge Conflict

Two full years in the making with the amazing Frank Krueger [http://twitter.com/praeclarum], it finally happened, we started a podcast. I am not sure why or how it took two full years, but the time seemed just right to bring everyone a weekly show. Aptly namedMerge Conflict [http://mergeconflict.fm], the podcast will be delivered right to your podcast listening device every single Monday at 7AM GMT, where we will be chatting on development, technology, and whatever else Frank and I are up to.…

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