Getting Started

5 Must Install NuGet Packages for New Xamarin Projects

Starting your first project can be a bit overwhelming. I mean heck, I wrote nearly 3,000 words [https://montemagno.com/build-your-first-for-ios-android-app-with-xamarin-and-visual-studio/] breaking down every bit of what to select and what each option means. Oh, and I also have a full video series [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwOF5UVsZWUiHY1CkRVjYJ6dm0iCvAlfw] walking you through it step by step on my YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/jamesmontemagno]. Before I start writing…

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Build Your First for iOS & Android App with Xamarin and Visual Studio

Let's start our journey together to build beautiful native cross-platform apps with .NET, Xamarin, and Visual Studio! In this blog I am going to guide you through the entire process and describe everything that is in File -> New for Xamarin. If you are a more visual learner, I have a full video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvp7wvbyceo] that you can watch: Let's set some groundwork first by answering some frequent questions. What is .NET? .NET [https://dotnet.microsoft.com?WT.mc_…

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Free C# and Xamarin for Beginners Videos Series

Last week Hanselman announced [https://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingFreeCNETAndASPNETForBeginnersVideoCoursesAndTutorials.aspx] all of the great new videos that are available at dot.net/videos [https://dotnet.microsoft.com/learn/videos?WT.mc_id=education-c9-jamont]. However, he forgot to mention that there is an entire new getting started series for iOS & Android development with Xamarin! The lovely developer advocate's and friends Matt Soucoup [http://twitter.com/codemillmatt] and…

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Getting Started with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms Q&A

Every day when I open my inbox or look on GitHub there is always a question or ten for me to answer. I recently got a nice long email from Clifton with a lot of questions and I thought that instead of emailing him back directly that I should write up a blog post with all of my answers for the world to enjoy and add some common questions I get all the time. Clifton wrote in and said he is investigating cross-platform development with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms as it is one unified application p…

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Getting Started With & Learning C#

In 2006, after years of writing C++ and Java code, while attending UAT an instructor named Phil Miller introduced me to this amazing language called C# and changed my life. It was love at first “Hello World” and I have never looked back. C# is an extremely powerful, mature, and extremely cross-platform programming language that I have been using for decades. The beauty of C# of course is that you get this amazing cross-platform framework called .NET, which gives developers ability to perform RES…

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5 Must Install NuGet Packages for New Xamarin Projects

Build Your First for iOS & Android App with Xamarin and Visual Studio

Free C# and Xamarin for Beginners Videos Series

Getting Started with Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms Q&A

Getting Started With & Learning C#

James Montemagno

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