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Xamarin University Presents: Getting Started with Xamarin for Visual Studio

March 3, 2017 Mar 3, 2017 03/3/17

Vahe Minasyan

Our mobile devices and wearables shape how we communicate and find information. Luckily, Visual Studio – including the latest version, Visual Studio 2017, launching on March 7 – gives you all the tools you need to start building apps for the ever-growing connected device ecosystem. Whether you’re building for enterprise users or everyday...

MSTest 2.0 – Now and Ahead

March 1, 2017 Mar 1, 2017 03/1/17

Vahe Minasyan

MSTest V2 has crossed 100K downloads. It has been but just a few months since we shipped it on NuGet. Over this course of time, you have reported issues and given us feedback, and we have tried to address them as fast as we can, refreshing the bits at a feverish pace. We are now at a stage where, as of v1.1.11 MSTest V2 has shed the pre-...

Let’s Try WCF Self-Hosted Services in a Container

March 1, 2017 Mar 1, 2017 03/1/17

Vahe Minasyan

Microservices are a hot architecture concept right now, and we hear a lot of interest in the architecture concepts.  Many of the ideas and capabilities behind microservices are already possible with the WCF frameworks for client and server creation.  There is one tenet about microservices that you can not do with WCF: run inside of a ...