Matt Soucoup

Xamarin and Azure Office Hours Recap from December 2018 and January 2019

February 21st, 2019

Matt Soucoup wants to hear your stories about building mobile apps with Xamarin or Azure or mobile development in general - so go ahead, ask him anything! In this post he recaps the last few months of open office hours covering what he has been hearing from Xamarin developers.

Xamarin Developer Podcast: Releases, Previews, and Roadmaps!

February 13th, 2019

On the latest Xamarin podcast we discuss speed, speed, and more speed. Get ready for a faster inner dev loop. What's an inner dev loop, you ask? Tune in to find out!

The Xamarin Podcast: New Year – New Pod!

January 18th, 2019

This episode includes a discussion of Matt's latest community office hours (and you can sign up for office hours at https://aka.ms/office-hours), Hockey App moving to Visual Studio App Center, Xamarin University's retirement, Xamarin.Essentials becoming a video star, and the brand new .NET Community Stand-Ups.

November 2018 Xamarin and Azure Office Hours Recap

December 14th, 2018

I ❤️ every single developer.

And I want to hear your stories. I want to hear about your successes, your "not-so-much" successes, and any questions or concerns you may have about our tooling. This way I can bring all of those back to the product teams to advocate for you. I'll get the answers, inform the product teams of what's working and what's not, and together we'll influence the products and make developing even more fun - for everybody.

Use MongoDB With Your Xamarin Apps

June 12th, 2018

One of the most important decisions that you'll make when designing an app is what type of database to use. Not too long ago, the choice was limited to relational databases like SQL server. However, now NoSQL databases are on the scene with the benefits of allowing applications to handle large amounts of structured and unstructured data...

Performing Geospatial Calculations with Azure CosmosDB

March 23rd, 2018

Azure CosmosDB is a multi-model, globally distributed database, as well as a geospatial calculation powerhouse. It can calculate the distance between two points, determine whether a road runs through a city, and identify if a body of water is wholly contained within a state. In this article, you'll learn how to unleash the potential of ...

Extend Xamarin.Forms Controls Functionality with Behaviors

February 16th, 2018

Xamarin.Forms provides a way to build 100% native, cross-platform applications with both a shared logic layer and a shared user-interface layer. Built-in Xamarin.Forms controls also provide a ton of functionality out-of-the-box to create some amazing apps. That said, mobile app developers are a crazy and creative bunch, and it would be ...