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Simplifying Visual State Manager with TargetName

January 21, 2020 Jan 21, 2020 01/21/20
Shikha Kaul
The Visual State Manager (VSM) has been around since Xamarin.Forms 3.0, but we’re not done developing it. One of the things we really wanted to add is the ability to change a property on any child element within scope. Up until now, you could only set values of properties of the element you applied the VSM to. Recently a PR was merged that ...

Announcing Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings

January 16, 2020 Jan 16, 2020 01/16/20
Shikha Kaul
Today I’m excited to announce a new experimental project to enable native mobile app development with Blazor: Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings. These bindings enable developers to build native mobile apps using C# and .NET for iOS and Android using familiar web programming patterns. This means you can use the Blazor programming model and ...

Announcing TypeScript 3.8 Beta

January 16, 2020 Jan 16, 2020 01/16/20
Shikha Kaul
Today we’re announcing the availability of TypeScript 3.8 Beta! This Beta release contains all the new features you should expect from TypeScript 3.8’s final release...

C++ Improvements to Accuracy and Performance of Linux IntelliSense

January 16, 2020 Jan 16, 2020 01/16/20
Shikha Kaul
Accurate C++ IntelliSense requires access to the C++ headers that are referenced by C++ source files. For Linux scenarios the headers referenced by a Linux MSBuild or CMake project are copied to Windows by Visual Studio from the Linux device (or VM, or Docker container, or WSL system) being targeted for the build. Visual Studio then uses these...

Tips and Tricks for XAML Hot Reload

January 16, 2020 Jan 16, 2020 01/16/20
Shikha Kaul
Happy 2020, Xamarin community! To kick start your productive new year, we want to share some favorite tips for XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms. With XAML Hot Reload, you can make changes to your XAML files, hit save, and immediately see those changes reflected in your running app...

.NET Conf: Focus on Blazor Teaser

January 9, 2020 Jan 9, 2020 01/9/20
Shikha Kaul
In this episode, Robert is joined by Daniel Roth, who provides a look at the upcoming (Tuesday January 14) .NET Conf: Focus on Blazor (https://focus.dotnetconf.net). This is a free, one-day livestream event that features speakers from the community and .NET product teams that are working on building web apps with C# and Blazor. He also gives a...

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 is now available

January 9, 2020 Jan 9, 2020 01/9/20
Shikha Kaul
The Visual Studio for Mac team is kicking off the new year with our best release ever! Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4, released today, brings several exciting enhancements to the developer experience. Many of these items were top requests from our community and include...

Top Xamarin Videos of 2019

January 9, 2020 Jan 9, 2020 01/9/20
Shikha Kaul
Each week, we bring to you great developer content and deep dives from the team and community in the form of Xamarin videos. In addition to our regularly scheduled shows you will find the Xamarin Community Standups and event recordings including the Xamarin Developer Summit. This last year we crushed every single milestone we set for ourselves...

December 2019 unified Azure SDK Release

January 7, 2020 Jan 7, 2020 01/7/20
Shikha Kaul
Welcome to another release announcement for the unified Azure SDK.  This month, we have expanded our service support to include a preview of the Azure Storage DataLake SDK...