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.NET Virtual Events in August
.NET Virtual Events in August
Jayme SingletonJuly 31, 2020Jul 31, 202007/31/20
Take your .NET & Xamarin development skills to the next level in August through this list of the amazing online events, streams, and videos for you to tune into straight from home!
Drawing UI with Xamarin.Forms Shapes and Paths
Drawing UI with Xamarin.Forms Shapes and Paths
David OrtinauJuly 23, 2020Jul 23, 202007/23/20
Xamarin.Forms 4.7 introduces drawing controls for Shapes and Paths. These are powerful new cross-platform controls that use the familiar control syntax from UWP and WPF. As well as use the native graphics libraries on each target platform. Learn more!
Mastering Multilingual in Xamarin.Forms
Mastering Multilingual in Xamarin.Forms
Charlin AgramonteJuly 21, 2020Jul 21, 202007/21/20
This guest post by Charlin Agramonte elaborates on how multilingual support is one of the most common requirements for mobile apps and the simplicity of building mobile apps with Xamarin that handle multiple languages.
App Themes for Xamarin.Forms
App Themes for Xamarin.Forms
David OrtinauJuly 16, 2020Jul 16, 202007/16/20
This new dark and light mode theme helper, AppThemeBinding along with UserAppTheme make it really easy to handle theme modes in your Xamarin.Forms apps.
Introducing C# Markup for Xamarin.Forms
Introducing C# Markup for Xamarin.Forms
AvatarJuly 15, 2020Jul 15, 202007/15/20
C# Markup for Xamarin.Forms enables developers to seamlessly create user interfaces in C# code with built in markup extensions. In this guest blog post Vincent will walk-through how to setup C# markup and all of the great built in features.
.NET Virtual Events in July
.NET Virtual Events in July
Jayme SingletonJuly 1, 2020Jul 1, 202007/1/20
With life gone virtual, there are tons of new ways to take your development skills to the next level and stay active with your developer communities through upcoming .NET and Xamarin events. Inside are just a few of the amazing online events, streams, and videos to tune into this July.
Xamarin Podcast: //Build 2020 Recap
Xamarin Podcast: //Build 2020 Recap
AvatarJune 25, 2020Jun 25, 202006/25/20
In this month’s episode, James and Matt recap the highlights of 100% remote Microsoft Build for Xamarin that happened at the end of May 2020. They will also talk about some new Azure + Xamarin docs and how to reuse Xamarin.Forms in iOS extensions.