James Montemagno

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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Join me for some Xamarin webinars!

July is a crazy busy month! To start, Xamarin Dev Days [https://www.xamarin.com/dev-days] is starting to roll out to cities all over the world. I will be running the Redmond Dev Days and hope to see you there if you are in town. There are also tons of awesome conference in the next few months (check out the side bar of the blog for details of where I will be). If you can’t come to one of these events in person, don’t worry as there are some awesome webinars over the next two weeks to hop in on.…

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Setting Up Visual Studio to run Xamarin.UITests

As of recent I have been on a quest to always stay in Visual Studio. It has always been my favorite IDE and now that the iOS Simulator is on Windows and our Mac Build Host is rock solid it is time for me to shove that macOS machine in the closet :) I recently aquired a brand new Surface Book and got it all setup for Xamarin development [http://motzcod.es/post/145219135782/surface-book-setup-for-xamarin-developers], but what about testing? It has been some time since I got all of my NUnit and Xam…

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May 31st, 2016

Surface Book Setup for Xamarin Developers

I recently aquired a brand new fancy Surface Book, fully speced out and ready to go for Xamarin development. Of course, my fear is always actually getting things setup for the very first time as it has been a few years since my last clean build. I figured I would take a few moments to document what I installed and setup to get everything running. Turning on BitLocker So this was for some reason difficult on my Surface Book as there were no TPM profiles installed. I wanted to ensure that I could…

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Xamarin.Forms XAML Previewer Design Time Data

UPDATE Checkout my newly updated blog on Design Time Data best practices [https://montemagno.com/xamarin-forms-design-time-data-tips-best-practices/] that are updated for the most recent changes in Xamarin.Forms. Original Post The most annticipated announcement of Xamarin Evolve 2016 had to be the Xamarin.Forms xAML Previewer. Enabling you to see a live preview of your Xamarin.Forms XAML without having to run it on a simulator or device. Simply write some XAML and there it is running on an iOS…

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Xamarin Evolve 2016 App Development Retrospective

Just yesterday we made the Evolve 2016 conference app completely open source on GitHub [https://blog.xamarin.com/browse-through-the-evolve-2016-mobile-app-source-code/] , and feedback has been fantastic with 57 stars, 26 forks, and tons of buzz on Twitter. While you are probably already digging through the code I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the development of the mobile application and some fun statistics of the application when it finally went live. Development The Xamarin Evolve c…

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Where Has James Been?

Where has James been? It has been a lonely few months here on the blog, which is something that has never happened in the past. I usually bust out two or three blogs a month in addition to the awesome stuff you will find over at the official Xamarin Blog. So where have I been? It isn’t like there is a lack of things I have been wanting to blog about: Effects, Parallax, new Support Packages, and so much more. Well, work just sort of kind of happened and consumed every single moment of my day tha…

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2015: The Year In Review

Today, seems like the perfect day to celebrate what was 2015, the Year of the Goat. Additionally, to usher in and celebrate a new year, the Year of the Fire Monkey!!!! Just over a year ago, I wrote a piece about Developer Evangelism [http://motzcod.es/post/109617693297/hi-im-james-developer-evangelist] and recapped my first full year working at Xamarin. I am so happy to be able to take a break from coding to reflect on all of the amazing things that happened last year and everything that is c…

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So we started a podcast... Merge Conflict

Join me for some Xamarin webinars!

Setting Up Visual Studio to run Xamarin.UITests

Surface Book Setup for Xamarin Developers

Xamarin.Forms XAML Previewer Design Time Data

Xamarin Evolve 2016 App Development Retrospective

Where Has James Been?

2015: The Year In Review

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