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152: Refreshing Hanselman.Forms - Visual, CollectionView, & Serverless Backend
June 3rd, 2019 | 45 mins 24 secs
android, collectionview, design, hanselman.forms, ios, material design, optimizing, visual, xamarin, xamarin.forms
What does it look like to refresh a 5 year old app with the all of the changes in iOS, Android, and Xamarin.Forms? James walks through all of the UI and backend changes he has been making to fully optimize the app. Additionally, he walks through how he is using Azure Functions to revolutionize his backend.
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151: The Future of the Future of .NET
May 27th, 2019 | 40 mins 9 secs
.net, .net 5, android, asp.net, dot-net, dot-net 5, dot-net core, future, ios, xamarin
At Microsoft Build 2019 the .NET team announced some amazing news around the unification of .NET runtimes with .NET 5. We could not let another week go by without talking about how awesome this is for .NET developers and what it means for the future of application development.
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150: We Have Lift Off
May 20th, 2019 | 46 mins 18 secs
android, career, di, hype, ios, windows, xamarin
The lighting talk topics tradition is alive! We are answering your questions and commenting on your topics! 8 of them in total including how to keep up with Android, how we met, UI testing, figuring out if dependency injection really is hype, and how to land a job without a CS degree.
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149: .NET Powered Political Campaign
May 13th, 2019 | 44 mins 59 secs
android, campaign, ios, voting, xamarin
It is official, Frank is running for political office. Since we don't talk politics on this podcast we get into the technology side of running for a seat on city council. What tools exist, need updating, or are missing all together. Frank fills us in on all the details.
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148: When App Developers Get Together
May 6th, 2019 | 49 mins 10 secs
android, app updates, ios, libraries, macos, nuget, visual studio, xamarin, xcode
They talk about how they hate updating apps and all of the issues that they run into when it comes to code, libraries, OS updates, software updates, store changes, and support! Here we go again!
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147: I'm a Mac Developer!
April 29th, 2019 | 45 mins 44 secs
android, certificates, certification, entitlements, ios, macos, xamarin, xamarin.forms
James is official a macOS developer thanks to Xamarin.Forms! He ported My Stream Timer over to macOS from WPF in a matter of hours and he gives a full break down of the good, bad, and the ugly.
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146: Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control, and HttpClientFactory
April 22nd, 2019 | 48 mins 38 secs
android, asp.net, dependency injection, di, extensions, ioc, ios, mobile, uwp, web, xamarin
You read it right! James is going all in on DI and IoC... or is he? We chat about the pros, cons, and reasons why James hasn't gone all in for many years and why he has started to change his mind using the new Microsoft.Extensions.Host library!
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145: IoT Goes .NET Core
April 15th, 2019 | 37 mins 34 secs
embedded, iot, meadow, raspberry pi, windows iot core, xamarin, xp
Let's enter the world of IoT with .NET! We take a quick stroll down memory lane, but blaze at lightning speed into the future of running .NET Core and the SDK directly on raspberry pi devices! The .NET team is hard at work enabling IoT scenarios and creating the "Xamarin.Essentials" for IoT connectors and devices with their first stop being GPIO. We don't stop there as we investigate where Windows 10 IoT Core fits into the .NET developer story!
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144: Package Up Those .NET Core 3 Apps
April 8th, 2019 | 36 mins 38 secs
.net core, dotnet core 3, msix, packaging, store, wpf, xamarin
So long Desktop bridge and hello MSIX, the new hero of packaging and distributing Windows applications (and maybe more). James walks through his new .NET Core 3 WPF app and how he stumbled upon MSIX. We also discuss what the heck it is, the downsides, the upsides, and the future of packaging up apps.
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143: It's a Services Episode
April 1st, 2019 | 48 mins 3 secs
apple, apple card, apple tv, development, services, tv+, xamarin
Apple steps out of its element to announce several new services and a... credit card? What does this mean for developers, consumers, and the future of Apple? We discuss it all.