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Stay warm with Microsoft & Xamarin!
Stay warm with Microsoft & Xamarin!

For those in New Zealand, Microsoft and Xamarin have announced some cool events:

Brr! It’s getting …

Specflow support in Visual Studio for Mac
Specflow support in Visual Studio for Mac

Love Specflow and Visual Studio for Mac? Well you are in luck as there is now a working extension …

Opening multiple solutions in Visual Studio for Mac
Opening multiple solutions in Visual Studio for Mac

One area Macs are very different to Windows PCs is in the way documents are opened. Mac apps manage …

Upcoming talks
Upcoming talks

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be talking at a couple of major conferences this year: …

Nugetizer 3000
Nugetizer 3000

One cool new feature in Visual Studio for Mac is the ability to create NuGet packages from your …

Be quick - 50% off Xamarin In Action for one week
Be quick - 50% off Xamarin In Action for one week

The MEAP of my book, Xamarin In Action, has just been updated to include a new chapter covering …

MvvmCross extension for Visual Studio 2017
MvvmCross extension for Visual Studio 2017

Update - it’s now on the marketplace!

Link here: …

MVVM – the design pattern for Xamarin apps
MVVM – the design pattern for Xamarin apps

This article is an excerpt from Xamarin in Action


MVVM is the most popular design pattern for …

MvvmCross Extension for Visual Studio for Mac
MvvmCross Extension for Visual Studio for Mac

I’ve been working to update the MvvmCross Xamarin Studio add-in to work with Visual Studio for …

Animating Xamarin Forms progress bars
Animating Xamarin Forms progress bars

Don’t you just hate boring UIs? With no animations to bring them to life?

Me too! Especially …

Missing Xamarin Studio add-ins
Missing Xamarin Studio add-ins

In the latest Stable Xamarin Studio (6.1.2) there is a problem with add-ins - the add-in gallery is …

Xamarin Dev Days!
Xamarin Dev Days!

Our Xamarin Dev Days has been immortalized in a YouTube video! Thanks to Peace of Dreams for filming …