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The Xamarin team at Microsoft has been updating its cross-platform development software to accommodate the new functionality in Apple's iOS 11, publishing guidance along the way.
11/07/2017
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Here are the new features being introduced with C# 7.1, the first "point" release in the programming language's accelerated release cadence.
11/01/2017
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By Daniel Krzyczkowski
Learn how to leverage the open source MVVM ReactiveUI framework, the Observer Design Pattern, ReactiveX and more to make your Xamarin apps more responsive.
10/24/2017
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New extension fosters analytics of various types of data stored in the Azure Data Lake using U-SQL, a blend of declarative SQL and imperative C#.
10/23/2017
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With new APIs for augmented reality and machine learning -- along with many new and updated features -- the latest iteration of iOS is sure to make Apple mobile developers happy, our resident expert concludes in this hands-on review, complete with code samples.
10/17/2017
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Cumbersome mobile app development using individual languages for each platform is giving way to multiplatform coding -- at which Visual Studio tooling is adept -- according to TIOBE, which tracks language popularity.
10/17/2017
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Perhaps answering the tabs-vs.-spaces indentation question forever, a developer has used Google's BigQuery analytics tool to investigate all things related to the C# programming language in GitHub's vast trove of open source code projects.
10/16/2017
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Here’s a look -- with code samples -- at two series of updates that will improve the feature set and, most important, performance of Microsoft’s cross-platform UI solution.
10/10/2017
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There’s a potential security exploit that ASP.NET MVC leaves you open to. However, in Peter’s opinion, all the proposed solutions miss the point.
10/03/2017
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With help from more than 20 open source community developers, a stable release of Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0 is out, introducing several new features and supporting .NET Standard 2.0 for consistent API usage.
09/29/2017
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According to Microsoft, community developers are driving changes to its flagship IDE, including a host of improvements in the just-announced second preview of Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.4.
09/13/2017
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In announcing Windows Template Studio 1.3, Microsoft hinted that work has begun to support Visual Basic programming in the wizard-driven dev tool for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps.
09/13/2017
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Microsoft's Xamarin unit announced a new certification program for mobile professionals, offering a badge below the level of its existing cert.
08/29/2017
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Once again, Mr. Xamarin comes to Visual Studio Live! to discuss cross-platform development.
08/28/2017
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"If you've ever used VSTS/TFS Code Search, you've probably loved it, it felt like this was the way code searching should be. Then you did a code search in Visual Studio, and were reminded of the painful past...."
08/25/2017
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By Greg Shackles
From performance improvements to new platforms, here’s a look at what’s coming down the road for Xamarin.Forms developers.
08/10/2017
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Code Focused
Learn how providing information in available HTTP header elements can help make interactions between unrelated systems straightforward and meaningful.
08/08/2017
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The 26-year-old Visual Basic programming language just won't go away, as Microsoft just announced plans to bring its IDE back to the Office for Mac environment.
08/07/2017
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While mostly known for its use in Linux-based development, the versatile curl tool for transferring data over HTTPS can be a nifty timesaver when using Visual Studio Code on Windows.
07/31/2017
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Code Focused
Squash the dangers lurking in your SQL queries by setting parameters by way of parameterized queries.
07/27/2017
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Playing around with Apple's Core Image imaging technology, using some simple C# code to perform facial recognition and apply filters to photos.
07/26/2017
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By Terrence Dorsey
Here’s a roundup of the newest tools and extensions available for the new Visual Studio 2017 release.
07/25/2017
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By Michael Domingo
It's a programming language darling of those working in the data science/machine learning space, which might explain why Python takes the top spot in a recent IEEE survey. Plus: .NET Insight Podicast 11 explores coding camps.
07/24/2017
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In-Depth
By
Joseph Fultz, Darren Brust
Part 2: Now that we've nailed down the serverless compute concepts, we'll use a handful of online tools to develop Azure Functions.
07/21/2017
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James McCaffrey uses cross entropy error via Python to train a neural network model for predicting a species of iris flower.
07/20/2017