Before starting your Xamarin project, I recommend installing some version of Visual Studio 2017 -- it has the best support for Xamarin. For this article I'm using Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition ...

There are lots of differences between using a Standard Class/Portable Class Library (PCL) and Shared projects in a Xamarin solution. However, the most obvious one appears when you open any XAML file ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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According to Gartner, by 2016, 70 percent of the mobile workforce will have a smartphone, half of which will be purchased by the employee, and 90 percent of enterprises will have two or more platforms ...