Live, Love, Bike, and Code.
Live, Love, Bike, and Code.
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?
James Montemagno
Last week we announced that Xamarin projects now support netstandard libraries, 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.
James Montemagno
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 wasn’t coming or planned at all. I write Markdown just about every day between the libraries on my GitHub and writing blogs and documentation. I have always used VS Code for just light weight text editing and …
James Montemagno
Two full years in the making with the amazing Frank Krueger, 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 named Merge Conflict, 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 …
James Montemagno
July is a crazy busy month! To start, Xamarin 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 …
James Montemagno
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, but what about testing? It has been some time since I got all of my NUnit and …
James Montemagno
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.
James Montemagno
James Montemagno is a Principal Lead Program Manager for Developer Community at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005, working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Live, Love, Bike, and Code.
