.NET Virtual Events in July

With life gone virtual, there are tons of new ways to take your development skills to the next level! Below are just a few of the amazing online events, streams, and videos to tune into this July. Stay active with your developer communities through upcoming .NET and Xamarin events. Get lots of exciting content provided by the teams at Microsoft and the global community. Read on to find out more about events this month and information to help you host your own virtual experiences!  

Virtual Conferences in July

July 16th

• Xamarin Assemble 2020: an annual event in Argentina to bring community experts and students together to share knowledge of development of Mobile Cross Platform applications. By the community and for the community.

Virtual Meetups in July

Tuesday, July 7

• Portland .NET User Group: Rick Strahl: Using .NETCore Tools to Create Reusable and Shareable Tools & Apps!

Tuesday, July 14

• Syndney Modern Apps: Building Web Apps with Blazor, Rod Hemphill

Wednesday, July 15

• Boston .NET Architecture Group: Shave Mobile Development Time and Cost With Xamarin (Craig Howard)

Thursday, July 16

• Minnesota Enterprise Mobile: Creating Simple Animations for Mobile with After Effects and Lottie

Friday, July 17

• Perú .NET Development: Llevando el diseño de tus aplicaciones al siguiente nivel con Xamarin Forms

Tuesday, July 21

• Toronto Mobile .NET Developers Group: Future of Xamarin with Brandon Minnick

Wednesday, July 22

• Cape Town (@CPTMSDUG): MSDUG United: Intro to MAUI, new in Xam.Forms, Serverless on Azure, Github Pages
• Johannesburg (@JHBMSDUG): MSDUG United: Intro to MAUI, new in Xam.Forms, Serverless on Azure, Github Pages
• Durban (@DBNMSDUG): MSDUG United: Intro to MAUI, new in Xam.Forms, Serverless on Azure, Github Pages

Thursday, July 23

• Rzeszów .NET Mobile Xamarin Meetup: Getting Started with Shiny with creator Allan Ritchie

.NET Foundation’s .NET Virtual User Group Program

The .NET Foundation has been working on a new initiative to help .NET user groups go virtual – The .NET Virtual User Group program! Let the .NET Foundation take care of all of the streaming so you can focus in on making your meetup awesome and enable developers around the world join in. Submit your user group session, get scheduled, and get your event promoted! It is a great way to engage with the broader .NET community and keep your user group going while we are still social distancing. Join the .NET Virtual User Groups to find awesome upcoming user group sessions from around the world!

Build 2020 Recaps and Recordings

Get all the Microsoft Build 2020 Recaps and Recordings completely free from our 48 hour virtual event. There are several keynotes, general sessions, and recaps from the two days for Xamarin and .NET developers.

Watch the .NET Team Stream

Discover live community stand-ups every week! And did you know that the Xamarin community is also super active on live-streaming sites, such as Twitch?

Here is a full list of .NET streamers that stream throughout the week. Be sure to follow them to stay up to date.

Join a .NET Stand-up

Multiple times a week the .NET teams meet online to talk about the latest news across all .NET products. Find live, upcoming, and past episodes on the new .NET Community Stand-up website. Including the Xamarin Community Stand-up happening tomorrow, Thursday, July 2nd, at 10 AM PST – Xamarin.Forms 4.7 Paths & Shapes!

Re-watch .NET Conf – Focus on Xamarin

Our largest virtual Xamarin event of the year has over nine hours of content! Between fourteen sessions from the Xamarin team and community members. all of this awesome content is available on demand. View the full playlist on

Channel 9 and YouTube.