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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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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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Creating & Consuming .NET Standard Libraries

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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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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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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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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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Preparing Machines for Xamarin Cycle 8/iOS10/AndroidN

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

Creating & Consuming .NET Standard Libraries

So we started a podcast... Merge Conflict

Setting Up Visual Studio to run Xamarin.UITests

Xamarin.Forms XAML Previewer Design Time Data

Xamarin Evolve 2016 App Development Retrospective

2015: The Year In Review

James Montemagno

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