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May 2017 | | | |
We're excited to share that last week at Microsoft Build we announced the general availability of Visual Studio for Mac, major updates to Visual Studio Mobile Center (Preview), and Xamarin Live Player, a live coding environment to make development and debugging faster. | | |
Visual Studio for Mac is a full-featured IDE built natively for the Mac to help you develop, debug, and test anything from mobile and web apps to games. Teams can share code seamlessly across platforms from an IDE natively designed to feel intuitive for any Mac user. You can download Visual Studio for Mac here or check out Miguel de Icaza's full post for all of the details. | | |
Introduced last November, Visual Studio Mobile Center (Preview) is a set of cloud services for building and managing mobile apps targeting iOS and Android, including apps written in Swift, Objective-C, Java, Xamarin, and React Native. We announced several new features at Build, which you can learn all about on the Visual Studio blog before getting started with Mobile Center here. | | |
Xamarin Dev Days are under way around the world! Each Dev Day features free training courses from Xamarin experts and local community members, as well as the opportunity to put new knowledge into practice by building a cross-platform, cloud-connected app with Xamarin and Azure. Can't find an Dev Day near you? You can also apply to organize an event or become a sponsor. | | |
After the success of our first Xamarin University webinar series (which is available on demand here), we've set up five NEW webinars to continue the series in June. Register now to learn about Xamarin.Forms for Visual Studio 2017, building Games for iOS, macOS, and tvOS, SkiaSharp Graphics for Xamarin.Forms (with the legendary Charles Petzold!), customizing Xamarin.Forms UI, and Azure Machine Learning. | | |
Go Mobile Tech Workshops: Microsoft Engineering is offering a limited number of technical sessions to help your team build better mobile apps, faster. Get ahead on current projects and prepare for what's coming next in app development. Ongoing, Various Locations
Microsoft Bot Framework at Schaumburg Microsoft .NET Technologies Meetup: Learn how to get started with conversation bots as Sarah Sexton takes you step-by-step through tools, building and deploying, and how to get up and running on different platforms. May 23, Schaumburg, IL
Consuming Web APIs and Services: Learn how to integrate and consume RESTful web services in Xamarin apps. Explore REST architecture, learn how to retrieve, insert, update and delete information from REST-based services, and techniques to monitor network status. May 25, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Prism for Xamarin.Forms at Windows Platform Developer Group: Set up a Master/Detail page type app using Prism to set up your view models, messaging, logging, commands, dependency injection, and navigation. Leave with learnings to apply to UWP, iOS, and Android apps. May 25, Vancouver, BC
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