Category Archives: Xamarin
Yet Another Podcast – #168: Greg Shackles
Greg Shackles is a Principal Engineer at Olo. He is a Xamarin MVP, Microsoft MVP, host of the Gone Mobile podcast, organizer of the NYC Mobile .NET Developers Group, author of Mobile Development with C#, and also a monthly columnist … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #166 – James Montemagno (Xamarin)
James Montemagno is a Principal Program Manager for Mobile Development Tools at Microsoft. Xamarin Show Merge Conflict Twitter
Adding Databound Pickers to a ListView
Databound Pickers are in much demand, and fortunately Karl Shifflett has created one that is excellent and easy to use. You add it to your program, wire up the data-binding and hey! presto! you’re in business. The tricky bit comes when … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #164 – Azure Mobile Apps with Chris Risner
Chris is a Principle Software Development Engineer at Microsoft. There he works within the Developer Experience team where he leads a team focusing on making non-traditional Microsoft technology work well with Microsoft technology. Azure Mobile Apps Notification Hubs VSTS HockeyApp … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #163: James Montemagno and Xamarin Cycle 8
James Montemagno is a Principal Program Manager on the Xamarin team 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. Prior to becoming a … Continue reading
Xamarin Utility in 5 Minutes with Plugins
[This article was restored] I needed a quick and dirty program to create quick notes and mail them to myself. You can see how this would be useful; a way to jot down notes while away from the computer, with some high … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #161 – David Britch
David Britch is a Developer/Writer at Xamarin, and has previously spent many years working on projects for different groups at Microsoft. David has authored and contributed to a range of recent software development publications including books, guidance documentation, reference implementations, … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #160 – Mobile Technology Overview – Sam Basu
Sam Basu is a technologist, author, speaker, Microsoft MVP, gadget-lover and Developer Advocate for Progress. With a long developer background, he now spends much of his time advocating modern web/mobile/cloud development platforms on Microsoft/Telerik stacks. His spare times call for travel, fast … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #157 – What’s New in Xamarin and A Case Study
I’m joined by Dan Hermes and David Silverlight for a quick overview of what is new in Xamarin, and then a deep dive into an application they both worked on for the FAA Dan’s Blog Dan’s Company Dan’s Twitter Dan’s … Continue reading
Effects with XAML
In this excellent article, Nish Anil describes how to modify controls using Effects – a lighter weight approach than creating custom renderers. His examples, however, are all in C#, so I decided to translate them into XAML. To begin I … Continue reading