Links:
.NET Conf: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdo4fOcmZ0oXeSG8BgCVru3zQtw_K4ANY
.NET Aspire: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspire/get-started/aspire-overview
Microsoft Extensions AI: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-microsoft-extensions-ai-preview/
GitHub Copilot Free: https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilot-in-vscode-free/
Visual Studio - Copilot Blog: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2024/12/18/free-github-copilot
Visual Studio Code - Copilot Blog: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/github-copilot-free-is-here-in-visual-studio/

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• David: Twitter, Github

Links:
What's new: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/maui/whats-new/dotnet-9

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Links:

• James VS Code Setup Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t2zzoW4D98
• James Deploy to iOS Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-kZ-AgEeO8
• .NET 9 Preview 7: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-9-preview-7/
• OpenAI SDK: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/?p=52138
• Inference SDK: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure-ai-model-catalog-dotnet-inference-sdk/

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Rachel Kang, .NET MAUI Program Manager, joins the podcast to talk about all things accessibility for .NET MAUI developers. Why is accessibility important, how do you test it, what features are available, and so much more!

Links

Docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/maui/fundamentals/accessibility
Blogs:

• Keyboard accessibility - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/the-journey-to-accessible-apps-keyboard-accessible/
• Screen Readers: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/the-journey-to-accessible-apps-screen-readers/
• Making Visual Text Accessible: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/the-journey-to-accessible-apps-making-visual-text-accessible/
• Content Ordering: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/the-journey-to-accessible-apps-meaningful-content-ordering/

Special Guest: Rachel Kang.

• C# Azure Search Sample with MAUI!
• .NET AI Documentation

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The M365 Admin app is used to administer M365 tenants on the go. It's a complex app written in Xamarin.Forms ... or it was. Find out how the team behind the M365 admin app migration from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI.

• .NET MAUI API Browser
• Reuse Effects in .NET MAUI
• Upgrade a Xamarin.Forms app to a .NET MAUI app with the .NET Upgrade Assistant

• Migrate a Xamarin.Forms custom renderer to a .NET MAUI handler

• Namespace changes

• API changes

• Update app dependencies

• Migration troubleshooting tips

• Upgrade from .NET 7 to .NET 8

• What's new in .NET MAUI for .NET 8

• Cross-platform resource files with single project

• Build accessible apps with semantic properties

• Mono interpreter on iOS and Mac Catalyst

• Microsoft Intune App SDK for .NET MAUI (Android | iOS)

• Add authentication to your .NET MAUI app using MSAL.NET

• A .NET MAUI sample using MSAL.NET to authenticate users with Azure AD

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

• Migrate your Xamarin.iOS Binding Library
• Migrate your Xamarin.Android Binding Library
• Auth0 Documentation for .NET MAUI
• Mapbox .NET MAUI Support
• Minnesota Enterprise Mobile UG: Party On with 3rd Party Binding Libraries in .NET MAUI
• .NET MAUI API Browser
• Reuse Effects in .NET MAUI
• Upgrade a Xamarin.Forms app to a .NET MAUI app with the .NET Upgrade Assistant
• Migrate a Xamarin.Forms custom renderer to a .NET MAUI handler

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

Microsoft Build just happened - tune in to hear David's, James', and Matt's thoughts!

Latest Releases

• Latest on .NET MAUI
• .NET upgrade assistant w/ support for MAUI
• NET 8 preview 4 & 5 and Visual Studio Previews
  • Visual Studio 17.7 Preview 1
  • Visual Studio 17.7 Preview 2
  • .NET 8 Preview 4
  • .NET 8 Preview 5
• Speech recognition in .NET MAUI w/ community toolkit
• C# Dev Kit for VS Code

Latest News

• Visual Studio UI Refresh
• Create a PR in Visual Studio
• Surround selection

Azure News

• QnA assist in MS Learn

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Deployment Environments Build Session
• Azure Deployment Environments Azure Friday

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It's been a little bit... but James, David, and Matt are back with the latest .NET MAUI and Azure news!

Latest Releases

• The latest on .NET MAUI
• .NET Upgrade Assistant
• .NET Upgrade Assistant NuGet
• .NET 8 Preview 3
• Visual Studio 17.6 preview 2
• Visual Studio 17.5 updates

Latest News

• Drawing elements on maps in .NET MAUI
• Azure Developers - .NET Day
• Let's Learn .NET - All Around the World
• Build, Build, and more Build
• File and folder dialogs in with the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit

Azure News

• Getting started with OpenAI in .NET
• Data API Builder - Public Preview
• .NET SQL Passwordless connections

Azure Service of the Month

• Microsoft Dev Box

Pick of the Pod

• Apple command line tooling

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

In addition to some good natured ribbing - James, Matt & David talk about the latest and greatest in .NET MAUI development.

Latest Releases

• .NET MAUI Latest
• Visual Studio 17.5 Previews
  • Markdown
  • Sticky Scroll
  • Dev tunnels
  • Spell checking
• .NET MAUI Community Toolkit
• .NET Community Toolkit

Latest News

• MVVM in WinForms
• Updates to the podcast app

Azure News

• Azure Developers YouTube
• Azure CosmosDB Conf

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure OpenAI

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• David: Twitter, Github

.NET Conf happened, it was amazing, and David, James and Matt will bring you up to date! The latest MAUI, .NET, and Azure are all coming at you.

Latest News

• .NET Conf
• .NET Student Zone

Azure News

• Azure bicep

Azure Service of the Month

• Form recognizer

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

With .NET 7 around the corner, we're putting the finishing touches on everything in preparation - tune in to find out more! David, James, and Matt will fill you in on all the details plus the latest in Visual Studio and Azure news!

New releases

• .NET MAUI support for .NET 7 RC2
• On.NET with David with .NET MAUI for .NET 7
• Draw all over your maps
• .NET MAUI support for XCode 14
• .NET 7 RC2
• VS Mac 17.4 P2.1
• .NET MAUI Community Toolkit v1.3

Latest News

• Microsoft Teams Infrastructure and ACS migration to .NET 6
• Microsoft Commerce migration to .NET 6
• Bing Ads Campaigns migration to .NET 6
• Compare files in Visual Studio
• .NET Conf is coming up!
• The .NET Conf Student Zone

Azure News

• All the goodness for .NET 7 in Azure Functions and App Service

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure App Configuration

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

Can you believe it? There's already a new major version of .NET MAUI on its way! David, James, and Matt will fill you in on all the details plus the latest in Visual Studio and Azure news!

New releases

• .NET MAUI in .NET 6 Service Release 5
• NET MAUI in .NET 7 RC 1
• Visual Studio 2022 17.4 Preview 2

Latest News

• Cloud Skills Challenge almost over!
• Learn Live .NET MAUI chugs along
• Colored bracket pairs in Visual Studio
• Bicep in Visual Studio

Azure News

• .NET 7 in Azure Functions
• .NET MAUI + Azure Cosmos DB on Cosmos DB TV

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Container Apps

Pick of the Pod

• .NET Podcast App
• Microsoft Orleans
• Microsoft Authentication Library - MSAL

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

Whether it's summer or winter where you live, one thing is for certain - it's the season of .NET MAUI! Tune in for the latest and greatest in Azure, Visual Studio, and .NET MAUI news.

New releases

• .NET Community Toolkit 8.0
• Visual Studio 17.3
• Visual Studio Mac 17.3
• Visual Studio 17.4 Preview 1

Latest News

• .NET MAUI – Learn Live!
• .NET Conf – Focus on MAUI recap
• .NET MAUI Beautiful UI Challenge
• Local events
• .NET MAUI Cloud Skills Challenge

Azure News

• Azure SQL temporal tables
• Azure SQL multi-model

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure SignalR

Pick of the Pod

• MapsUI
• Point of Sale print
• SunmiV2MAUI

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We may have missed a month out on vacation - but we're back better than ever with the latest installment of the .NET MAUI podcast!

New releases

• .NET MAUI Updates
• .NET MAUI ecosystem shipping libraries!
  • Sentry
  • GoogleMaps
  • SkiaSharp Views
  • Steema Charts
  • Community Toolkit
  • Serilog
• .NET MAUI SR3
• Visual Studio preference improvements
• [Visual Studio edit while you search](o https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/sneak-peek-and-edit-your-code-while-you-search/?WT.mc_id=dotnet-70279-masoucou)
• Visual Studio ARM64
• VS Mac 17.3 Preview 2

Latest News

• .NET Conf - Focus on MAUI
• Getting started with DevOps and .NET MAUI
• Customizing controls in .NET MAUI
• UI July

Azure News

• Azure Dev CLI public preview

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure deployment environments

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

It's out - it's GA - move all your apps now. .NET MAUI is released.

New releases

• .NET MAUI Update
• .NET MAUI Learning Path
• .NET MAUI website
• Let's Learn .NET MAUI
• .NET MAUI Samples

Latest News

• Migrating to .NET MAUI blogs number 1
• Migrating to .NET MAUI blog number 2

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

.NET MAUI RC is here. I don't need to say any more.

New releases

• .NET MAUI RC
• Visual Studio for Mac Preview 9
• .NET MAUI Workshop

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

Another month, another step closer to the .NET MAUI GA! Join James, David and Matt to hear about the latest bits being added to .NET MAUI.

Plus learn all about using GitHub Actions as a .NET developer, the latest on Azure, and of course, the pick of the pod!

New releases

• .NET MAUI Preview 14
• Visual Studio for Mac Updates
• ...and hot off the press VS Mac Updates

Latest news

• GitHub Actions for .NET Devs
• GitHub Actions Code Metrics and Class Diagrams
• Find out more about Mermaid!
• Sneak peek at C# 11
• Compatible packages at NuGet.org

All the Azure in one spot

• ASE! Azure App Service Environments V3

Pick of the Pod

• Dev Containers
• MVVM Source Generators

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Can you believe we're on .NET MAUI Preview 13? As David says, we're getting so close to release he can almost taste it!

Plus we have other great news about Visual Studio - including the best Visual Studio feature ever - and a special Let's Learn .NET all about Git and GitHub.

New releases

• .NET MAUI update
• Visual Studio 17.1 out!

Latest news

• Let's Learn .NET - Git and GitHub
• .NET 20th anniversary retrospective video

All the Azure in one spot

• Visual Studio Connected Services

Pick of the Pod

• In app billing - including new updates and .NET 6 support!
• Vijay Anand's MAUI templates
• macOS Big Sur icon Figma template
• Easy app icon

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

Show Notes

• Machine Learning in .NET with ONNX Runtime
• ONNX Runtime
• Microsoft ONNX Runtime GitHub
• ONNX GitHub
• ONNX Model Zoo
• Netron

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Can you believe there were 2 .NET MAUI previews since our last episode? Come on in and listen and David Ortinau breaks all of the newness down.

And we have more on the latest releases of Visual Studio and the latest Azure news too!

New releases

• .NET MAUI Preview 11
• .NET MAUI Preview 12
• New .NET MAUI documentation
• Visual Studio 17.1 Preview 2
• Facebook SDK v12.2 for Xamarin

Latest news

• Create .NET Microservices - Learn LIve Series
• .NET Podcast app

Cloud news

• Intro to Azure Chaos Studio
• Azure Cosmos DB Conf Call For Papers open!
• Azure Cosmos DB Conf
• More new Azure SDKs

Azure service of the month

• Azure Container Registry

Pick of the Pod

• Microsoft Clarity

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Join Matt & James as they review the new .NET MAUI features, how to author Visual Studio extensions and the latest Azure news.

New releases

• dot.net available in 2 new languages

Latest news

• Writing Visual Studio Extensions made even easier
• VSIX Cookbook
• Everything you wanted to know about Onnx
• MobCat GitHub

Cloud news

• Tune Azure Storage uploads

Azure service of the month

• Azure Orbital
• See Azure Orbital in action

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• David: Twitter, Github

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James, David, and Matt go over .NET 6 and .NET Conf and all the goodness!

New releases

• .NET MAUI Update
• .NET 6 Release
• Visual Studio 2022
• VS 2022 UI Upgrades
• Personalize Docs in VS2022
• C# 10

Latest news

• Journey to accessible apps
• Xamarin platform updates

Cloud news

• Azure Container Apps

Azure service of the month

• Azure Form Recognizer

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• David: Twitter, Github

All the previews and release candidates you could ever want. .NET 6 RC 2 - the final RC. .NET MAUI Preview 9, Visual Studio RC and Preview 5 - there's even a Visual Studio for Mac preview to talk about!

Tune in as David and Matt talk all about the previews!

New releases

• .NET MAUI Update
• VS 2022 Mac Preview 1
• VS 2022 Release Candidate and Preview 5
• .NET 6 Release Candidate 2

Latest news

• .NET Conf
• Visual Studio Theme Converter

Cloud news

• Azure REST API Guidelines

Azure service of the month

• QnA Maker

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

Stefan Wick, Rido Minguez Pablos, and Ben Buttigieg join us to tell us about the app and Azure IoT.

Show Notes

• Azure IoT
• Azure IoT Central
• Azure IoT Hub

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
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.NET 6 release candidate is out ... and that means there's big news around .NET MAUI. Tune in to find out what David Ortinau has to say!

New releases

• .NET MAUI update
• .NET 6 release candidate 1
• Visual Studio 2022 preview 4

Latest news

• .NET Conf

Azure service of the month

• Azure Monitor

Cloud news

• Azure Monitor .NET SDK
• Azure Cosmos DB end-to-end example
• Entity Framework 6 Core with Azure Cosmos DB

Pick of the pod

• Fig
• Stowage

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, Github

Can you believe it - the Xamarin Podcast is now the .NET MAUI Podcast?!? New name - same great flavor!

We talk about .NET, Visual Studio, Azure, and of course .NET MAUI!

This month there's a new preview of .NET MAUI, a bunch of Visual Studio updates, news on the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit and Essentials, and of course more Azure than you can you can shake a stick at.

New releases

• .NET MAUI Update
  • MAUI Themes
• VS Mac 2022 private preview
• VS 2019 v16.11
• VS 2022 preview 3

Latest news

• VS 2022 and hot reload
• VS 2022 personalization
• VS 2022 multi-repo support
• .NET MAUI community toolkit
• .NET MAUI Essentials

Cloud news

• Intro to the unified Azure SDK
• Target random users with push notifications

Azure service of the month

• Azure Logic Apps

Pick of the pod

• Blazorize

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/davidortinau}, [Github](https://github.com/davidortinau}

It's over. Done. Final. Caput. No more. This is the last Xamarin podcast ever. What's going to happen next month? Tune in to find out.

But also tune in to find out about the latest updates on .NET MAUI, Visual Studio 2022, what happened to the Xamarin Forums, and learn how to use Chromecast from your Xamarin apps!

New releases

• Visual Studio 2022 - Preview 1

Latest news

• New .NET forums
• New .NET MAUI forums
• Chromecast with Xamarin.Forms

New Videos

• Shiny 2.0

Cloud news

• Azure Functions: Discover OpenAPI

Azure service of the month

• Azure Traffic Manager

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
• David: Twitter, GitHub

This time find out about a unique app that takes advantage of the Surface Duo to let you create 360 degree drawings!

Download the Sketch 360 app
Sketch 360 GitHub repo
Microsoft Garage project
More info about Sketch 360 for Surface Duo
Surface Duo documentation

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Can you believe it - Build has come and gone and there's so much goodness to talk about with .NET MAUI - and David Ortinau is back to fill us all in.

Plus we have the latest updates on the updates to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Mac and how to make your Xamarin.Forms apps more accessible and beautiful. And there's some great cloud news for Azure Function fans!

All this and more!

New releases

• .NET MAUI update
• Visual Studio v16.10 and v16.11 preview out
• Visual Studio Mac v8.10 out

Latest news

• Journey to accessible apps - screen readers
• Building beautiful apps with Xamarin.Forms

Cloud news

• OpenAPI support for Xamarin.Forms

New videos

• Hanselman and friends developer keynote
• Build playlist

Azure service of the month

• Azure Functions

Pick of the pod

• Project Tye
• Build your first microservice with .NET | Learn module

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Special Guest: David Ortinau.

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Show Notes

New releases

• Visual Studio v16.10 Preview 2
• Visual Studio 2022 Update
  • Cascadia Code

Latest news

• Xamarin accessible apps
  • The Journey to Accessible Apps
  • Accessible apps on the Xamarin Show
  • Xamarin Community Toolkit updates for accessibility
  • Accessibility Learn module
  • Microsoft Ability Summit

Cloud news

• Optimize costs w/ Azure Blob Storage
• Learn modules: OpenAPI & API Management & Visual Studio

New Videos

• C# Highlights
  • Ranges
  • Tuple pattern matching
  • Default interface methods
• csharp.dev
• Let's Learn .NET

Azure service of the month!

• Azure IoT Central

Pick of the pod!

• James: SQLite.NET
• Matt: Zebra Xing

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Show Notes

• Find out more about LivePerson
• WebRTC on iOS

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Show Notes

Latest news

• Great looking settings screens for Xamarin.Forms

Cloud news

• Microservice March w/ Let's Learn Microservices
• Cloud Learning Resources for .NET Devs

Azure service of the month!

• Azure Health Bot

Pick of the pod!

• Visual Studio XAML Code Generation
• Comet Extension for VS Code
• Learn Live

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Special Guest: David Ortinau.

Find out how the developers at Polaris created an app that allows you to find trails, and track your position along the trail - so you can ride safely. And make sure your friends do too. And it even generates 3D fly-thrus of your ride so you can share them later!

All of that and more on this Xamarin Podcast!

Show Notes

• Ride Command
• Memory Management and Profiling - The Xamarin Show
• CollectionView Drag & Drop

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• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Special Guest: Alexey Strakh.

Show Notes

New releases

• MAUI Update w/ David Ortinau
• .NET 6 – Preview 1
• Visual Studio v16.9 out – v16.10 preview 1
• What's new in Visual Studio 16.9 Live Stream
• Visual Studio Mac 8.9

Latest news

• Tabs w/ Xamarin Community Toolkit
• CollectionVew with drag & drop w/ gestures

Updated content

• HTTP API series

Cloud news

• Azure Functions for .NET 5 in prod
• Learn Live
• Make the perfect Cheetos with AI

Azure service of the month!

• Azure Communication Services

Pick of the pod!

• Fast Design
• Hello World

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Special Guest: David Ortinau.

The toolkit it out! It's glorious! You should use it today because it'll solve all of your Xamarin app development needs!

.... or it'll at least make your life a bit easier ...

James and Matt talk all about the Community Toolkit, what's all inside of it, and the new video series that goes along with it too! And they also talk about customizing Radio Buttons to your exact UI needs. .NET MAUI ... .NET MAUI .. and more .NET MAUI - and they even sneak in some time to talk about some new great content for Xamarin developers on Microsoft Learn!

And can you believe it - a whole lot more!

Show Notes

• Announcing the Xamarin Community Toolkit
• Check out the great Xamarin Community Tookit docs!
• All those Community Toolkit Xamarin Shows!
• Build a custom radio button
• A whole lot of news on .NET Multi-platform App UI
• Microsoft Learn: Consume REST services with Xamarin
• And the new docs on consuming REST services with Xamarin
• Azure DevOps Demo Generator
• The Launch Space: Surface Duo for .NET and Xamarin Developers
• Azure Notification Hubs
• James' in-app billing library

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

• XamCat code samples
• Medusa Medical

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

And it's all Xamarin.Forms 5 all the time in this special podcast!

Principal Program Manager David Ortinau join James and Matt to lead them through all the new exciting bits in Xamarin.Forms 5.0.

Show Notes

• Xamarin.Forms 5 is here!
• NYE at the Space Needle
• My Cadence app

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Xamarin and Azure play a big part and our very own MCAT team helped pave the way too!

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Show Notes

New Releases

• Sketch360 + Xamarin.Forms + Surface Duo
• Azure Mobile Apps v4.2
• Visual Studio 16.9 Preview 2

Latest News

• Microsoft Q&A for .NET
• .NET MAUI update

Azure News

• Azure Friday Serverless API Series - Part 1
• Part 2

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Event Hubs

Pick of the Pod!

• 5 must install NuGet packages
• Coding fonts
• Xamarin Weekly Newsletter

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

iRel8 facilitates mental wellness using Xamarin - find out the heartfelt story behind this app in this episode of the Xamarin podcast.

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

.NET 5 is out! And with that there are some great Xamarin enhancements in the latest version of Visual Studio. Find out how to update your Android manifest files so you can still send emails in Android 11. And there's a new version of Azure Mobile App Services ... what?!?

Show Notes

New Releases

• .NET 5
• .NET Conf
• All the new Xamarin newness (XAML Hot Reload 2.0 with Binding Failures, iOS Hot Restart)

Latest News

• Query & Interact with Apps in Android 11 with Package Visibility
• In app reviews for Android apps
• Xamarin Community Toolkit Hacktoberfest 2020 Recap

Azure News

• Azure Mobile App Services 2.4
• Azure Mobile App Services SQLite Client
• Zumo Book

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Event Grid

Pick of the Pod!

• XBox
• Xamarin.Forms Community Toolkit

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

The history of the app, how it was built, and the challenges and successes encountered along the way.

All of this in this episode of the Xamarin Podcast.

Download Seeing AI today - it's amazing!

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• James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub, Merge Conflict Podcast
• Matt: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

Special Guests: Alexey Strakh and Saqib Shaikh.

There's a new iOS. There has to be a new XCode then too. What would another month be without a new Xamarin.Forms preview release be? And this one is Xamarin.Forms 5!! And there's Xamarin.Essentials too!

It's not all new releases though in this pod - lots of news to talk about too.

Hack your way to some swag with Hacktoberfest. Find out about the Fabulous world of functional programming. And did you know the Oscars have an app - and it's made with Xamarin?!?

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

New Releases

• XCode 12 & iOS 14
• Xamarin.Forms 5 preview
• Xamarin.Essentials 1.6 preview
• Xamarin.Essentials 1.6 feature matrix

Latest News

• Hacktoberfest with Xamarin
• Fabulous Functional App Dev
• Oscars Customer Showcase

Azure News

• Create: Serverless videos

New Xamarin Videos

• Xamarin.Forms code snippets
• Replicating user profile UI
• Community Standup
• On .NET Live

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Bastion

Pick of the Pod!

• StreamDeck toolkit

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You'll find out a ton of great insights on how the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences built a Xamarin.tvOS app, lift and shifted their infrastructure to Azure, and released a Xamarin.Forms app too.

All with a little help with our friends from Microsoft's Mobile Customer Advisory Team!

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Of course it's a new month and that means there's a new preview version of Visual Studio! Find out all the goodness that goes along with that.

If you wanted to detect if your app was run for the first time ever, or the first time for a new version, or whatevs... Xamarin.Essentials has you covered with a great API.

James and Matt also talk about how to really supercharge your Xamarin.Android app startup times.

There's a ton of Azure news too ... including some confusion over what exactly the service of the month should be!

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

New Releases

• Visual Studio v16.8 Preview 2
• XAML hot reload for UWP in action
• Microsoft Learn Surface Duo Developer Training for Xamarin.Forms

Latest News

• App first run detection with Xamarin.Essentials
• Profiling Xamarin.Android startup
• Xamarin.Forms Shell Quick Tips: Modal Navigation

Azure News

• Managed Identities w/ Azure Functions
• Azure Cosmos DB for the SQL Professional
• Understanding Azure Cosmos DB for relational data

Azure Service of the Month

• Managed Identities

Pick of the Pod!

• Microsoft Word

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Ever want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some drawing in Xamarin.Forms! Well, now in Xamarin.Forms 4.8 you can!

James and Matt discuss all the ins and outs of brushes, gradients and shapes and how you can implement them in your Xamarin.Forms app.

There's also new releases for Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac. Find out about how you can make your .NET meetups shine - and attend some new ones too.

And tell us all about your experience about Entity Framework and Xamarin.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

New Releases

• Xamarin.Forms 4.8
• Visual Studio 2019 v16.7
• Visual Studio for Mac
• Twitch Visual Studio channel

Latest News

• Multi-lingual support in Xamarin.Forms
• Drawing your user interface in Xamarin.Forms with shapes and paths
• A Dev Story: College Diary with Xamarin.Forms
• Meetup resources, presentations and workshops
• .NET Foundation virtual user groups
• .NET Conf Focus on Microservices

Azure News

• Quick start with Xamarin.Forms and Entity Framework
• 61 videos of beginner Azure SQL content

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure App Configuration

Pick of the Pod!

• Matt: Microsoft.Identity.Web
• James: PancakeView v2

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... well ... multi-value bindings are all the rage - but that doesn't have quite the ring of Inverter Converter.

This month James and Matt run down the rest of the great features in Xamarin.Forms 4.7 including how it helps you manage light and dark themes, eliminates the need for James' image circle plug-in, and makes writing Grid row and column definitions so, so, so much easier.

Tune in to hear about some new requirements for submitting Android 10 apps to the Google Play store and get some quick tips on implementing back navigation with Xamarin.Forms Shell too!

Plus - get your blog featured on an upcoming podcast by registering your blog with Planet Xamarin today!

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

• Register your blog on Planet Xamarin

New Releases

• Xamarin.Forms 4.7 new features
• Xamarin.Forms multi-bindings
• Android 10 requirements

Latest News

• Shell Quick Tip: Back navigation

Azure News

• Azure SQL is the best database for developers
• Azure SQL is the best on Data Exposed

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Custom Vision Service
• Power Automate

Pick of the Pod!

• Matt: Fluent design system icons
• James: Sharpnado

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James and Matt recap all of the great Xamarin announcements - and then you can go out and watch all the sessions.

Plus this episode covers how to build iOS extension while reusing some Xamarin.Forms pages a new Azure + Mobile documentation center and so much more.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

Latest News

• Xamarin Build Updates
• .NET MAUI
• Learn TV
• Learn what Learn TV is all about
• Shell Quick Tip: Passing Data
• Reuse Xamarin.Forms pages in iOS extensions

Azure News

• New Xamarin + Azure developer center
• Choosing the correct cloud messaging format

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Storage Queues

Pick of the Pod!

• Matt -Using settings.json & local.settings.json in Xamarin apps
• James - Virtual .NET User Groups

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We have lots of news and new releases to cover this month for you!

Xamarin.Essentials and Xamarin.Forms have new releases. And the Xamarin engineering team was hard at work to get a cross-platform API out for the new contact tracing API from Apple and Google.

James and Matt also talk about //Build, a couple of cool new case studies, and recap the wackiness of the Crazy Cognitive Service Combo Challenge!

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

Latest Releases

• Xamarin.Essentials 1.6 is on the loose
• Xamarin.Forms 4.6 brand new features
• Find out about the new Contact Tracing API

Events

• Register for //Build now!

Xamarin News

• Crazy Cognitive Services Combo Challenge Wrap-Up
• Volotea + PGS Software Case Study
• Changesets with Azure SQL
• Magic Gradients ... with animated gradients!

Azure News

• Brokered Auth in MSAL.NET
• Azure Cosmos DB and Minecraft World Case Study

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Maps

Pick of the Pod!

• Matt - Material Frame with Blur
• James - Azure Table Storage

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Well it does when James and Matt talk about Azure Logic Apps, embedded fonts, and the brand new Xamarin.Essentials authentication!

Yeah - they have nothing to do with each other whatsoever! 😄

But James and Matt talk about a whole lot more - including a wrap-up of the recently completed .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin, new releases of Visual Studio for Windows and Mac, and great new tools for making your Android apps faster!

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

Latest Releases

• Visual Studio 16.5 and VS Mac 8.5
• Visual Studio Previews
• Faster Android Startup with Startup Tracing Custom Profiles
• Social Authentication with Xamarin.Essentials

Xamarin News

• Increase Binding Possibilities with RelativeSource
• Embedded Fonts in Xamarin.Forms
• .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin Wrap-up
• .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin Slides

Azure News

• Make Azure Logic Apps Easy

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Logic Apps

Pick of the Pod!

• Matt - HTTPTracer
• James - Sharpnado: Acrylic Frame

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That's because on March 23, 2020 there's a live streaming event called .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin! Tune in to get a preview of all the great content coming up.

But of course there's more in store in this pod too! You want the best features of Xamarin.Forms 4.5? You got it. Not enough & you want 4.6 pre-release news too? Done & done! Haven't heard enough about AndroidX yet - well fill you in some more. And we'll even let you know how Xamarin.Essentials released both 1.4 and 1.5 at the same time! (hint... it's all related to AndroidX!)

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

Latest Releases

• AndroidX NuGet packages are stable

Xamarin News

• 5 things to be excited about in Xamarin.Forms 4.5
• Xamarin.Forms 4.6-pre release notes
• Xamarin.Essentials 1.4 & 1.5 are out
• How to bind Swift libraries
• The iOS - Swift Nuke library for Xamarin.Forms
• How to bind Kotlin libraries
• Did you know you can make every Forms layout a repeater?!?

Azure News

• Azure Cosmos DB has a free tier!
• Find parking spots with Custom Vision and IoT

Azure Service of the Month

• Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Events

• .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin

Pick of the Pod!

• Matt - Azure SQL changetable
• James - Task Loader View

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This month James and Matt talk about Xamarin.Forms triggers every chance they get - because there's trigger news everywhere!

The dancing doesn't stop there though - Microsoft has new dual screen devices coming out, and you can bet that Xamarin.Forms supports them! We got you covered with all those details.

Xamarin.Forms 4.5 has a pre-release, and you'll want to tune in to find out what great features await you!

Speaking of new features... Visual Studio for Windows and Mac have great new previews out ... what's that I hear? Hot restart and multi-target hot reload?!? Whaa??

There's some cloud news on an Azure Quickstart Center and Azure API Management.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month!

Show Notes

Latest Releases

• Xamarin goes dual screen
• Surface Duo and Neo dev with Xamarin.Forms
• All about M365 Developer Day
• Watch the M365 Keynote
• Xamarin.Forms 4.5 (pre) Release Notes
• Everything you wanted to know about Visual Studio 2019 v16.5 Preview 2
• And the lowdown on Visual Studio for Mac v8.5 Preview 2

Xamarin News

• Visual State Manager with Target Name
• DevOps for Android App Bundles
• Toggle tab icons with triggers and styles
• That poor UIWebView is going to be deprecated

Azure News

• Azure Quick Start Center has the answers to all your questions
• How cool is API Management? It just got cooler!

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Managed Identities

Events

• .NET Conf - Focus on Xamarin
• VS for Mac Refresh

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This month James and Matt recover from their holiday hacks to go over the latest and greatest in the world of Xamarin!

There's a new version of Xamarin.Essentials out for the new year. And the new year also brings back a look at the top blogs and videos of 2019.

Whew - the community sure came up with a ton of great ideas for the Santa Talk Challenge and Matt & James talk about the best.

There's a hot new XAML hot reload tips and tricks article you must read and give you the scoop on gRPC and Azure Service Bus.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and the Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

Latest Releases

• Xamarin.Essentials 1.4.0-pre

Xamarin News

• Santa Talk Challenge Recap
• Top blogs of 2019
• Top videos of 2019
• Android App Bundles
• XAML Hot Reload Tips & Tricks
• James Holiday Hacks

Azure News

• Creating gRPC Microservices with .NET
• Azure Service Bus From the Ground Up
• Azure Service Bus Core Features
• Advanced Features with Azure Service Bus

Blazor Conf

• Blazor Conf

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure Service Bus

Pick of the Pod

• Sharpnado
• Magic Gradients

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This month James and Matt go over the big releases of Visual Studio 16.4 and Xamarin.Forms 4.4!

But there's more than the latest releases! There's news galore! Snnpts Challenge results. Hacktoberfest, and 5 quick tips for getting the most out of the CollectionView are covered.

Would you like to know how serverless fits into Cloud Native? What about the new Azure SDKs? Done and done.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and the Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

Visual Studio 16.4

• Quick blog recapping all new features
• XAML HOT RELOAD 🔥🔄 IS FINALLY IN GA!
• Cool Xamarin Show on Android App Bundles
• Read all about AndroidX libraries
• Introduction to Android X for Xamarin | Xamarin Show

Xamarin.Forms 4.4

• Xamarin.Forms 4.4 Introduction Post
• More info on the IndicatorView
• You wanna know more about the SwipeView don't you?
• Animated GIFs - can you believe it?!?
• CarouselView is a'coming!

Xamarin News

• The Snnpts Challenge
• The Snnpts Challenge Results
• Hacktoberfest Winners
• These 5 Quick Tips on the CollectionView will change your life forever
• And don't forget this 6th tip on pull-to-refresh!

Azure News

• How Serverless Fits in With Cloud Native
• Azure Core and Azure.NET SDK Libs | On.NET Show
• Securing Azure Apps with Azure.Identity SDK

Azure Service of the Month

• Azure DevOps
• Mobile DevOps Series

Pick of the Pod

• JeffSum.NET
• StateSquid

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From previewing this year's HUGE Ignite Conference, to talking about the incredible bumper on Matt's new Channel 9 show - Partly Cloudy - the guys hit it all this month.

They also discuss the new release of Xamarin.Forms 4.3 , and how to find out what's new with the new stuff!

James explains the new App Bundle Support coming to Visual Studio - and why that's a great thing for you and your Android applications! That and a ton of great Azure goodness too!

Plus the Pick of the Pod!

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

Show Notes

• Check out the Ignte Tour!
• Matt's Partly Cloudy Show
• The latest new features released
• Learn more about RefreshView
• Draw some polygons on your maps!
• Pin that map up real good!
• CarouselView Challenge wrapup
• App Bundles on the Xamarin Show
• New Community Standup site - live.dot.net
• Download the Azure + Xamarin Infographic poster
• More Xamarin Developer Summit videos!
• Microsoft Mobile Landing Page
• New documentation on doing mobile apps with Microsoft tech!
• Buy your monkeys here!
• DAPR
• Azure App Configuration
• Azure CDN Docs
• Put a CDN over the BLOB storage
• Git branching model
• Context Menu

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.NET Conf just happened and if you missed anything don't worry, because... We. Have. You. Covered.

There were a ton of great announcements and we talk about them all. Including all of the Xamarin related sessions, what Hot Restart is, and the release of a ton of .NET 101 videos.

Oh ... and did you know that XAML Hot Reload is hiding in plain sight within the stable version of Visual Studio!?!? We have all of that, and cloud news, and the Azure service of the month.

Plus the Pick of the Pod!

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

Show Notes

• Check out all the goodness of .NET Conf!
• Read all the Xamarin .NET Conf Announcements
• More in-depth announcement on iOS 13
• You want the Android announcement - you got it!
• Hot Restart announcement
• Check out the Hot Reload docs!
• iOS 13 docs
• Android 10 docs
• Xamarin + Azure Functions Challenge
• CarouselView Challenge Wrap-Up Post
• Xamarin Community Stand-Up ... See how the CarouselView works!
• On .NET - Azure Function Custom Bindings
• Azure Functions Bindings docs
• DevOps for Mobile Show Intro
• Every DevOps for Mobile Show - more added as they're released!
• Find out more about Azure Storage
• Put a CDN over the BLOB storage
• FFImageLoading
• PancakeView

.NET Conf Xamarin Sessions

• Xamarin.Forms - More Productive and Beautiful Than Ever
• Build Amazing Cloud Connected Apps with Xamarin, Azure, and App Center
• Building Modern Android Applications with Android
• Boosting Your Xamarin Development Productivity
• The Keynote
• Xamarin YouTube playlist

.NET 101 Video Series

• .NET for Apache Spark Series
• Xamarin 101 Series
• C# 101 Series

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iOS 13 and Android 10 are hot off the presses. Xamarin.Forms 4.2 is too! There's something cool called Boots that will keep your feet dry in the pool of continuous integration and Azure Functions now has Dependency Injection!

Plus the Pick of the Pod!

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Show Notes

• Check out all the goodness of .NET Conf!
• Reserve your spot in Redmond for .NET Conf
• Get started with iOS 13
• Get started with Android 10
• All the newness of Xamarin.Forms 4.2
• CollectionView pull-to-refresh PR
• CarouselView Challenge!!
• Boot up your CI to the next level!
• Hot reload goes to public preview
• Android performance and app size challenge
• Modernize apps for dark mode
• Compiled bindings!?!
• Compiled bindings documentation
• On .NET Show - Azure Functions Dependency Injection
• Azure Functions dependency injection docs
• Cloud Native Show - .NET Core
• Azure Container Registry
• Fastlane
• Bing Search APIs

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There's a ton of Android goodness to discuss and they tackle it all!

You've heard of Android Start-up Tracing - now find out how it makes your app faster!
What's all the hubbub about AndroidX? James has got your covered!
And did you know there's a great session from the Xamarin Developer Summit that you can watch that shows you the what, how, and why to optimizing your Android build?!? You bet there is and you can stream it on demand!

There's more than Android in this months episode!

Visual Studio of Visual Studio for Mac get updates. There's a super cool app out there that does everything you ever wanted with contacts IN FOUR LINES OF CODE! And App Center is releasing features like crazy!

All of that, plus the Azure Service of the Month and the Pick of the Pod!

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

Show Notes

• Theming Visual Studio Just Got Easier!
• Visual Studio 16.2 Release Blog
• You want VS for Mac updates? We got 'em here!
• Android Startup Tracing Explained
• Check out the Android Startup Tracking Video!
• AndroidX stands for Android eXcellent!
• AndroidX video! AndroidX video!
• Xamarin Developer Summit Videos
• Xamarin Developer Summit Keynote
• The Future of App Center at the Xamarin Developer Summit
• Partly Cloudy - Tips and Tricks to Using Azure to Its Fullest at the Xamarin Developer Summit
• Speed up those Android Build Times! From the Xam Dev Summit
• Optimize those Android Builds - The Blog
• World's Best Contacts App
• WPF and WinForms into App Center
• All the latest App Center News

Azure Service of the Month!

• Cloud Shell ALL the things
• Stay warm and fuzzy in the Storage Explorer GUI

Picks of the Pod!

• MVVM Helpers
• State Squid

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And it's 🔥🔥🔥hot hot hot🔥🔥🔥!!

But it's not the temperature outside - it's because Xamarin.Forms XAML now has HOT RELOAD! 🔥🔄

If that's not mind bending enough - we cover a ton of other great stuff in this pod too! There's a ton, ton, ton of new Android improvements. AndroidX, startup tracing, JetPacks - find out what those all are!

Did you know that Tizen supports Xamarin.Essentials? You do now! VS Mac has better XAML Intellisense, and learn all about the goodness that is Azure Cosmos DB.

Plus there's a whole lot more too!

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

Show Notes

• XAML Hot Reload 🔥🔄
• Android App Bundles
• iOS 13 Preview Available
• Get Started With iOS 13
• Xamarin.Essentials Docs
• Automatic Android SDK Management
• New VS Mac XAML Intellisense
• Tizen for Xamarin.Essentials!
• VS Mac 8.2 Preview
• Smaller DEX's on Android => Faster Apps!
• Migrate those macOS apps to 64 bit!
• Find out more on how to implement for multiple device resolutions!
• Visual Studio App Center
• App Center Auth
• App Center Data
• MSAL! MSAL! MSAL!
• Azure Cosmos DB
• Xamarin Media Manager
• Debug Rainbows

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Show Notes

• Office hours are back!
• Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Intro Blog
• The Xamarin.Forms 4 live stream recording
• Intro to Shell Blog
• The Docs for Shell
• Can you believe the Shell navigation?!?
• Find out what makes those Android fast renderers so fastt!
• Unify all the ImageSourceTypes
• You gotta be kidding me - Xamarin.Forms 4.1?!?
• Join us at the Xamarin Developer Summit!
• Prep those Droid apps for Google 64 bit
• Get a deeper dive into all that 64 bit goodness
• Demystify Android SSL and cleartext!
• Check out Merge Conflict for all the WWDC news
• MSAL 4.0 - Auth All the Things!
• Microsoft Learn - IT'S STILL FREE!!!
• Cloud Shell seem cool? Learn more!
• Azure Event Grid Overview
• Hanselman.Forms
• Pick of the Pod - Pancake View

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Show Notes

• Build playlist on Xamarin YouTube channel
• .NET 5 announcement
• Visual Studio App Center Auth
• Visual Studio App Center Data
• Visual Studio App Center announcements
• Big-time updates to Cognitive Services
• Cognitive Services Personalizer
• Cognitive Services Forms Recognizer
• Cognitive Services on Containers
• Visual Studio Online
• Cloud Shell Editor - VS Code in the Portal!
• Windows Terminal
• Xamarin API docs open sourced
• Xamarin courses on Microsoft Learn - FREE!!!
• CollectionView Challenge PRs
• Shrink You Android App Size
• The new xamarin.com
• Use GitHub to sign-in to the Azure portal
• ... and associate your GitHub and Microsoft accounts...
• CaptionR

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Show Notes

• What's New In Visual Studio 2019
• Visual Studio 2019 Release Notes
• What's New for Xamarin Developers in Visual Studio 2019
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac is Available
• Introducing the Xamarin.iOS Interpreter
• GlideX - Fast Images on Android
• Get those Apple Watch apps updated
• .NET - Xamarin Community Standup
• .NET Foundation Community Presentations - Choose your own adventure!
• .NET Foundation Swag Swag Swag!
• Real-time Serverless with SignalR and Azure Functions
• SignalR and Functions Documentation
• .NET Community Stand-up with SignalR streaming API
• Pick of the Pod! Prism AD B2C Plugin

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Show Notes

• Brand new Xamarin documentation landing page!
• One stop shop for all the Microsoft development blogs
• Xamarin app customer showcase - get inspired!
• XamU getting Twitch-y
• The Twitch Live Coders team
• Catch James on Twitch
• Updatng the Hanselman.Forms app
• Debug those ASP.NET Web APIs on Android Emulators
• Primo PDFs with SyncFusion
• Pop! Pop! UI Testing with the Page Object Pattern
• Become a speaker at Microsoft //Build
• Get your //Build tickets!
• Explore the new App Center features. Raise and comment on the issues for the features too!
• Azure App Configurations - one config to rule them all
• Xamarin.Forms 3.5 release notes
• 5 Things You'll Love About Xamarin.Forms 3.5
• Xamarin.Forms Essentials 1.1.0
• Visual Studio 2019 RC notes
• Visual Studio for Mac Preview 3
• MSAL 3.0 Preview
• Forms 9-patch all the things - the forum post
• Forms 9-patch all the things - the website
• Forms 9-patch all the things - the guide
• Selected / Unselected Xamarin.Forms tab colors

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Show Notes

• Download the Visual Studio 2019 Preview
• What's in VS 2019 For You!
• Intellisense and Intellicode Improvements
• Intellicode Using ML? No Way!
• R8 and D8 - The Dexer and Shrinker
• Add Some C++ To Your Xamarin App!
• Cosmos DB - SQL API - Xamarin Tutorial In the Docs
• Cosmos DB - MongoDB API - Xamarin Tutorial In the Docs
• Azure KeyVault
• Azure KeyVault App Service References
• Xamarin.Essentials
• Visual Studio 15.9.6 Release Notes
• Visual Studio for Mac 7.7.3 Release Notes

Pick of the Pod!!!

• VS Code Azure Extensions
• Skia Sharp Fiddle

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James will give you a rundown of his hands on experiences with Xamarin.Forms 4.0 and introduce you to the new .NET Community Stand-Ups. In cloud news - there's a new Azure Cosmos DB SDK in town and Matt loves the auth - and there's news about auth in Azure Functions!

And we have new release news for you too! Xamarin.Essentials, Visual Studio 2017, Android Support 28 Libraries, and Unity support in App Center. Plus the Pick of the Pod!

• Get yourself some free Azure!
• Sign up for office hours with Matt
• Read about December 2018 office hour recap
• Hockey App's future in App Center
• The Hockey App cutover experience
• Microsoft Learn - find out and sign up!
• Xamarin University retirement FAQ
• Mark Smith - head of XamU - explaining what the retirements means for you
• The Xamarin (Essentials) Show
• Essential API of the Week - Connectivity
• In-depth blog on the Collection View
• Xamarin.Forms 4.0 preview blog
• James' Twitch stream on Forms 4.0
• Merge Conflict episode on Forms 4.0
• Azure Cosmos DB - .NET 3.0 SDK
• Get at that ClaimsPrincipal in Azure Functions!
• Unity support in App Center? You bet!
• Walk through the front door with Azure Front Door
• CrossGeeks Rating Slider
• Rating Slide blog

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In this episode we recap the latest news in the Xamarin world including a marathon Twitch workshop, wondering Android build time improvements, the latest news in Xamarin.Forms, and recent announcements from Microsoft Connect();. We also cover the latest in Azure news, including DevOps, MSAL, and new Azure Cosmos DB pricing.

All of this, and a whole lot more!

Links:

• Get Some Free Azure!
• Twitch Workshop: Build Your First Mobile App with C#, Xamarin, and the Cloud
• Android build performance and reliability!
• Tabbing and Keyboard Navigation in Xamarin.Forms
• Image Button
• Span Class
• Decorate that Xamarin.Forms Label!
• Xamarin.Forms Editor
• GlideX
• Learn more about Azure DevOps
• MSAL 2.0 - Authenticate all the things - now better!
• New Azure Cosmos DB shared database offer
• 2018 Connect Announcements for Xamarin
• Xamarin.Forms Shell
• Xamarin.Forms Visual
• Forget about the ListView and use the CollectionView!
• James' Twitch - Implementing an iOS Checkbox for Xamarin.Forms
• Xamarin.Essentials - it's in GA! and check out the code!
• Super early preview release notes for Xamarin.Forms 4.0-pre! and while you're at it - give it a spin in your apps!
• Get the Visual Studio 2019 Preview!
• The machines are coming for our intellisense! VS Intellicode
• Zeplin - speed up your design process
• Azure CLI
• Microsoft Ignite | The Tour

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2:00 Getting your Android apps ready for Google Play's new Target API level requirements
8:00 See Xamarin.Forms 3.0 in action with the open-source conference vision app
10:40 Using MongoDB with Xamarin apps
12:05 What's new in the Android designer
17:00 Mobile Build Tools & new Android MSBuild properties
17:30 Xamarin Essentials
22:05 Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 - new Xamarin.Forms XAML IntelliSense, automatic iOS provisioning, new project templates
25:00 Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 - Hyper-V Android emulator, improvements to the incremental build process, Android designer and Forms Previewer improvements
27:55 Xamarin.Forms 3.1
32:40 Pick of the Podcast

• Getting Android Apps Ready for Google Play's Target API Level Requirements
• Build 2018 Conference Vision Demo App
• Use MongoDB with Your Xamarin Apps
• What's New in the Android Designer
• Xamarin Essentials
• Securing & Versioning Apps with Mobile Build Tools
• Using MSBuild to Define Advanced Android VersionCode
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7
• New XAML IntelliSense in 15.7
• New Project Templates in 15.7
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8
• Xamarin.Forms 3.0
• Visual State Manager
• FlexLayout
• CSS
• Xamarin.Forms 3.1
• Prism Template Pack

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3:30 HOT BITS! Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6
10:30 Build some AR into your apps with UrhoSharp 1.8
14:00 Navigation patterns in Xamarin.Forms
19:00 Building apps for Tizen devices (phones, tablets, watches, and tvs!)
22:00 Update your tvOS apps on the fly with tvML
24:10 Machine learning with CoreML + Xamarin + Custom Vision Service
28:10 Behaviors in Xamarin.Forms
28:45 Adding a search bar to iOS lists
30:30 BONUS Bachelor Finale thoughts!

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• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6
• The New Feature-Packed UrhoSharp 1.8
• New Xamarin University Course: Navigation Patterns
• Add Tizen Projects to Your Xamarin.Forms Apps
• Create and host tvOS TVML Apps with Azure & Xamarin
• Extend Xamarin.Forms Control Functionality with Behaviors
• Add a Search Bar to Your Xamarin Apps in iOS 11

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4:45 Android 8.1 (API 27) now available to developers
5:15 Try the new Xamarin Android Device Manager preview
12:15 Updates to the iOS storyboard designer
14:05 Automatic iOS app provisioning
16:00 CoreML programming with Xamarin.Mac and F#
17:20 Top 12 blog.xamarin.com posts of 2017
23:00 SmartHotel360 - New reference mobile app built with Xamarin.Forms
24:00 New Webinar - Visual Studio App Center
25:30 Visual Studio version 15.5 is now in stable channels
29:00 Visual Studio version 15.6 is now in preview
34:20 Pick of the Week

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• Xamarin.Android Support for Android 8.1
• Xamarin Device Manager Preview
• Updates to the Xamarin.iOS designer
• Automatic iOS app provisioning with fastlane
• CoreML Programming with Xamarin.Mac & F#
• Top 12 Blogs of 2017
• The Xamarin Show: Getting Started with MVVM
• Introducing the SmartHotel360 Reference Apps
• Webinar: Visual Studio App Center
• See what's new in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 Preview
• VSTS Mobile Build Tasks Extension
• Xamarin.Forms Video Player
• Media Manager Plugin for Xamarin
• Media Plugin for Xamarin & Windows

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• App Center
• Connect(); 2017 Videos
• Xamarin Announcements from Microsoft Connect(); 2017
• Visual Studio Live Share

2:00 Xamarin Live Player Preview 2: Continuously Run & Debug Apps
6:30 New free Xamarin University certification level
10:25 Xamarin MVPs join Microsoft MVPs
13:50 Share more code with .NET Standard 2.0
16:45 Exploring UrhoSharp 3D with Xamarin Workbooks
18:00 Android Oreo support
19:15 New updates for mobile developers in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4 Preview 2
21:50 iOS 11 & Xcode 9 Previews
24:10 Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0-pre2
25:00 Pierce's Tool of the Podcast: Xamarin AppMap from Infragistics
27:20 James' Package of the Podcast: Connectivity Plugin for Xamarin 4.0

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• Xamarin Live Player Preview 2: Continuously Run & Debug Apps
• Introducing the Xamarin Certified Mobile Professional Badge
• Bringing Communities Together: Xamarin MVPs Join Microsoft MVPs
• Share more code with .NET Standard 2.0
• Webinar: Exploring UrhoSharp 3D with Xamarin Workbooks
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4 Preview 2
• iOS 11 & Xcode 9 Previews
• Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0-pre2
• Xamarin AppMap from Infragistics
• New Connectivity Plugin for Xamarin

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4:15 Updates to the Android Support Libraries and Google Play Services
9:10 Adding native Facebook authentication to your apps
14:30 Integrating with OneDrive for Business (and other Office APIs)
17:00 Realm Goes .NET Core
20:00 Xamarin app of the week
22:10 Mobile dev for desktop developers
23:00 New stable and preview releases for Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac
32:00 Tool/Package of the Week

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• Fast & Simple Android Location Updates with Google Play Services
• Native Android Facebook Authentication with Azure App Service
• Adding Storage to Mobile Apps with OneDrive for Business
• Introducing .NET Core Support for Realm
• Speech Central Makes it Easier to Browse the Internet Hands-Free
• Webinar: Take your .NET Skills from the Desktop to Android and iOS
• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Released
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4 Preview 1 Release Notes
• Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin 4.7 Release Notes
• Visual Studio for Mac 7.2 Release Notes
• SQLite.NET
• FFImageLoading

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4:00 - Cool apps built with Xamarin recently
7:30 - Azure Cosmos DB
14:30 - App monetization with ads + in-app purchases in Xamarin apps
20:30 - Last Xamarin Dev Days dates + locations for this year announced
23:00 - Migrating your Xamarin.Forms apps to .NET Standard
29:15 - New updates to Plugins for Xamarin
32:40 - Try out the latest Xamarin previews for Visual Studio and Xamarin.Forms
36:50 - Tool/Package of the Podcast

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• Case Study: Aggreko
• Case Study: Minnesota Twins
• Going Global with Xamarin and Azure Cosmos DB
• Azure Cosmos DB
• Join us at a Xamarin Dev Days near you
• Building Xamarin.Forms Apps with .NET Standard
• The Xamarin Show: Upgrading Xamarin.Forms to .NET Standard
• Visual Studio 15.3 Preview 3
• Xamarin.Forms 2.3.5-pre6
• Media Manager Plugin
• Version Tracking Plugin

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