Visual Studio & Xamarin event: Visual Studio and Visual Studio Online: The App developer’s toolbox
I spent last Thursday afternoon in Kensington Olympia with Mike Taulty, Steve Hall and Dave Hathaway from Xamarin. The event was looking at developing cross-platform apps using Visual Studio, C# and Xamarin and the topics were:
Mike Taulty demonstrating how to structure and develop your apps for maximum reuse and portability
Me covering how Visual Studio and Visual Studio Online support app developers
Xamarin covering how their tools allow you to develop in C#, in Visual Studio, but output Windows, Android and iOS apps.
I really enjoyed the event and Mike’s demo of Portable Class Libraries and Universal Projects/Shared Projects was superb, and the Xamarin guys gave a great overview of how to target multiple platforms with minimal duplication.
A couple of people asked if I could record the demo I did, so I have, and here it is:
Basic flow:
- Create VSO project with Scrum and Git
- Create VS Hub App
- Change UI
- Add code and show debugging async calls
- Create Coded UI automated test
- Show performance analysis tools
- Look at Application Insights streaming data
I thought I’d go for a “one-take” record, so it’s not completely polished, and I also forgot to include something I showed in the actual demo – Storyboards in PowerPoint. I’ve uploaded the actual Storyboard I used as recompense, and you’ll be able to see why I’m no designer :-)
Cheers,
Giles