James Montemagno
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Continuous Integration & Delivery for Xamarin & .NET Libraries with VSTS

I build a lot of .NET libraries that include simple .NET Standard libraries to fully cross-platform plugins for Xamarin and Windows that target up to 10 different platforms. When I got started building libraries and shipping them to NuGet I went down a simple path of just building everything locally on my machine and manually uploading them to NuGet. This worked great for a single library, but as soon as I took on a second... third... forth... and so on, things got out of hand and I knew I had t…

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Building Xamarin.Android Apps in Team Services (VSTS) with Hosted Agents!

I recently wrote about how to build any Xamarin.iOS application inside of Visual Studio Team Services using Hosted macOS Agents for free! I have updated the guide a little bit if you are leveraging .NET Standard libraries to ensure that you build with MSBuild, which is pretty important seeing that all of the new templates will soon use these. That had me thinking "I wonder if there are any small tweaks that are needed for Xamarin.Android when building on the Hosted Agents?"... Which le…

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Building VSTS/TFS Tasks with TypeScript and VS Code

Over the last few years I have fallen in love with VSTS for handling all of my application and backend continuous integration, deployment, and release management. Each of these services offer a task based build and release definition that enable you to easily start automating anything. There are a ton of built in tasks, and a whole marketplace where you can install them into your VSTS/TFS project. At some point though, you may need to do something custom that isn't a task that has been built. Do…

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Using Visual Studio Mobile Center with a VSTS Code Repo

So, this is pretty awesome! Today, the Mobile Center team rolled out a huge update to Visual Studio Mobile Center enabling you to build your iOS and Android apps in the cloud from any GitHub, BitBucket, or Visual Studio Team Service code repository! This is great because VSTS offers FREE unlimited private repos for your code with a git backend. Mobile Center offers up build, test, distribute, analytics, and backend services for any mobile app written in any language. It couldn’t be easier to get…

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