Xamarin App Developer Links - 2014-11-13

Xamarin App Development

• Microsoft and Xamarin Expand Global Partnership (Xamarin Blog)

• Grid column behavior-Xamarin XAML vs MS XAML (Nico Vermeir)

• Avoid async void methods (Phil Haack)

Xamarin Studio & Mono/.NET

• Microsoft Open Sources .NET and Mono (Miguel de Icaza)

• Announcing .NET 2015 Preview: A New Era for .NET (.NET Framework Blog)

• .NET Core is Open Source (.NET Framework Blog)

• Announcing .NET 2015 - .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual Studio Community (Scott Hanselman)

Tools & Services

• OmniSharp - Cross platform .NET development in Your Editor of Choice (OmniSharp)

• Visual Studio Community 2013 (Visual Studio)

• Visual Studio 2015 Preview (Visual Studio)

• Introducing Visual Studio's Emulator for Android (Microsoft ALM)

Learning Materials, Events, Videos, & Podcasts

• Connect(); Microsoft Visual Studio vNext & Azure (Channel 9)