Microsoft announced in February its plans to acquire the cross-platform development platform Xamarin; the deal closed about two weeks ago. Even though the ink on the contracts has barely dried, ...

We all know how to enjoy audio and video on our phones, tablets and computers. We click on a link or button and the screen is typically taken over as some video shows up and the accompanying audio ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

You'll need, for example, to start using the pattern Microsoft calls Model-View-Presenter (MVP). MVP is the default pattern used in Windows Forms, ASP.NET Web Forms and WPF applications (though, of ...

Microsoft wants its software to run everywhere, not just Windows, and its latest acquisition is another step towards that goal. Today Microsoft announced that it will buy Xamarin, a company that makes ...

It’s possible to look back six years or so to see the roots of today in the open sourcing of .NET and the creation of the .NET Foundation. The platform needed an independent body to shepherd it ...

In a previous post, we learned how to set up Xamarin and Visual Studio for Android development and covered one or two basics of how it works. We also looked at some basic code to allow us to count ...

Xamarin is a cross platform tool for building Android and iOS apps using Visual Studio (VS). It can potentially save you vast amounts of time by allowing you to build an app with a single code base ...

In less than a month Microsoft will end support for .NET’s first major cross-platform UI tool, Xamarin Forms. Instead of developers having to build separate UIs for Windows, iOS, and Android, Xamarin ...

Well-known open source advocate and developer Miguel de Icaza, who joined Microsoft in 2016 when it acquired Xamarin, the mobile-tool company he cofounded, is leaving Microsoft. De Icaza -- a ...