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Pleased and proud to announce my latest Pluralsight Course…

This is part 2 of an ongoing series on Azure for Developers, based on a set of forthcoming videos from LinkedIn Learning

In Part 1 of this series, we began to look at some of the ways to “chunk” the various parts of Azure, and focused in on PaaS (Platform as a Service).  Let’s get started on our first App Service.

Open the Portal and log in as described in Part 1.  On the left, click App Services.  At the moment, you don’t have any, so click Create App Service.  This opens a long menu of App Services.  Scroll through and see what is available.

Click on ASP.NET Starter.  That brings up a review “blade.”  click  Create  This will bring up the ASP.NET Starter Web App blade, where you can configure your starter app.  Fill in a name.  To avoid conflicts I typically begin my application names with a couple letters followed by a dash, followed by the name.  For example, here I might use jl-firstApp.

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This series begins with an overview here

This series is based on my Pluralsight Course: Building Your First Mobile Application with Xamarin.Forms and Visual Studio 2017

Layout

Xamarin.Forms has a number of “Layout” controls that can contain other controls (views) and help you with positioning those views on the page.  There are a number of different layouts available to you, including:

• ContentView
• ScrollView
• Frame
• TemplatedView
• StackLayout
• AbsoluteLayout
• RelativeLayout
• GridLayout

For the first number of blog posts in this series, we’ll be using the StackLayout (one view on top of another or one view next to another) and the GridLayout (similar to an HTML table)

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