{"id":9781,"date":"2014-03-06T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/?p=9781"},"modified":"2019-04-02T13:32:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T20:32:48","slug":"xamarin-invades-channel-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/xamarin-invades-channel-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Xamarin Invades Channel 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9788\" alt=\"channel-9-logo\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/channel-9-logo1.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"134\" \/> Channel 9 is an amazing resource for developers featuring a plethora of video shows, blogs, and developer resources. While <a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\" title=\"Channel 9\" target=\"_blank\">Channel 9<\/a> has always been primarily Microsoft technology focused, Xamarin has recently been featured on multiple shows highlighting the awesome ways to create beautiful native cross platform mobile apps powered by C#.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I kicked off a four part series on <a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Shows\/Visual-Studio-Toolbox\" title=\"Visual Studio Toolbox on Channel9\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Studio Toolbox<\/a>, a show focused on being productive in Visual Studio, showcasing creating Android and iOS apps inside of Visual Studio with Xamarin. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Shows\/Visual-Studio-Toolbox\/Cross-Platform-Development-With-Xamarin\" title=\"Part 1 on Visual Studio Toolbox\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1<\/a><\/strong> focused on an introduction to Xamarin and how to get up and running inside of Visual Studio. I create a simple cross platform application and demonstrate how to start sharing code immediately on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"320\" height=\"240\" style=\"height: 324px; width: 576px;\" src=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Shows\/Visual-Studio-Toolbox\/Cross-Platform-Development-With-Xamarin\/player?h=324&amp;w=576&amp;format=html5\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Shows\/Visual-Studio-Toolbox\/Using-Portable-Class-Libraries-with-Xamarin\" title=\"Part 2 on Channel 9\" target=\"_blank\">Part 2<\/a><\/strong> takes is a step further to highlight how to leverage portable class libraries to create a single assembly that is shared on all platforms.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"320\" height=\"240\" style=\"height: 324px; width: 576px;\" src=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Shows\/Visual-Studio-Toolbox\/Using-Portable-Class-Libraries-with-Xamarin\/player?h=324&amp;w=576&amp;format=html5\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The final parts of the series will launch in March so stay tuned for those.<\/p>\n<p>The invasion didn&#8217;t stop there though as Xamarin&#8217;s Mike Bluestein took center stage on <a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/DevRadio\/Microsoft-DevRadio-Developing-for-Windows-8-in-1-2-the-Time-Creating-Your-Apps-with-the-Help-of-Xama\" title=\"Dev Radio on Channel 9\" target=\"_blank\">Dev Radio<\/a> for a fire side chat about all things Xamarin and our unique approach to create cross platform native apps in C#:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"320\" height=\"240\" style=\"height: 324px; width: 576px;\" src=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/DevRadio\/Microsoft-DevRadio-Developing-for-Windows-8-in-1-2-the-Time-Creating-Your-Apps-with-the-Help-of-Xama\/player?h=324&amp;w=576&amp;format=html5\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe and check back often to these shows and others on Channel 9 for more great Xamarin showcases.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channel 9 is an amazing resource for developers featuring a plethora of video shows, blogs, and developer resources. 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