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The Next Evolution of Xamarin Training: Microsoft Learn

KarinaMay 6, 2019May 6, 201905/6/19

The Xamarin University team has joined Microsoft Learn to incorporate many of the great features Xamarin University has, to announce building Xamarin apps in Microsoft Learn: a free and interactive learning portal.

Xamarin.Forms 4.0 CollectionView Challenge

Paul DiPietroApril 19, 2019Apr 19, 201904/19/19

We’ve just published a new pre-release of Xamarin.Forms 4.0 which includes the very latest features and improvements for both CollectionView and Shell. Update today via your NuGet package manager. Try out this new CollectionView Challenge that focuses on the upcoming CollectionView in Xamarin.Forms 4.0!

Join the Xamarin Visual Challenge

David OrtinauMarch 22, 2019Mar 22, 201903/22/19

Over the past month, we have been running a low-key challenge to flex the new Xamarin.Forms 3.6 feature, Visual with Material Design. For more information about what Visual is and what you can do with it, hit the blog announcement. Now through the end of March, we're upping the stakes.

View PDF Files within Your Xamarin.Forms Apps Using the Syncfusion PDF Viewer

Suresh MohanFebruary 28, 2019Feb 28, 201902/28/19

View PDF files within your Xamarin.Forms apps using the Syncfusion PDF Viewer control. Find the runnable demo of this blog in this GitHub repository.

Quick Tip: Debugging Local ASP.NET Core Web APIs on Android Emulators

James MontemagnoFebruary 25, 2019Feb 25, 201902/25/19

Debugging your ASP.NET Core Web API backend against you Android emulator should be simple, and with this quick tip you can use Xamarin.Essentials and Kestral to enable local debugging.

5 Things You’ll Love in Xamarin.Forms 3.5

David OrtinauFebruary 6, 2019Feb 6, 201902/6/19

Take a closer look at 5 important updates we at Microsoft in collaboration with you, our fantastic contributors, are delivering in Xamarin.Forms 3.5!

Using Existing C++ Libraries in Cross-Platform Xamarin.Forms Applications

Mike ParkerFebruary 4, 2019Feb 4, 201902/4/19

Have you ever needed to integrate a C/C++ library in your Xamarin apps? Checkout this full Walkthrough pf an approach to wrapping a C/C++ library so it can be incorporated into Xamarin-based solutions via NuGet in a cross-platform manner.

Xamarin.Forms 3.5: A Little Bindable Love

andrei nitescuJanuary 11, 2019Jan 11, 201901/11/19

In this guest post Andrei shows off his BindableLayout contribution that is now available in Xamarin.Forms 3.5 to turn any Layout into a layout with a bindable item template.

Hackathon Superweapon: F# and Fabulous

Larry O'BrienJanuary 10, 2019Jan 10, 201901/10/19

Let me introduce you to F# Functional App Development using Xamarin.Forms with the Fabulous project, which brings the Elmish Model-View-Update (MVU) architecture to Xamarin. It is a great way for F# developers to rapidly build mobile applications as you will see in this blog post.

Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Feature Preview: An Entirely New Point of (Collection)View

Paul DiPietroDecember 7, 2018Dec 7, 201812/7/18

As part of the upcoming Xamarin.Forms 4.0 release, we are implementing the all new CollectionView control. The CollectionView is intended to be a successor to the ListView, improving upon its design by reducing technical complexity and allowing for more flexibility of layout and function.

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