Visual Studio Toolbox: Getting Started with Xamarin

In this episode, I welcome James Montemagno back to the show to talk about how you can get started developing with Xamarin. James shows exactly what you need to get started building mobile apps with Xamarin including the hardware required and software you need to install. He then shows how to leverage your existing .NET and C# skills to create iOS, Android and Windows mobile apps in Visual Studio with Xamarin. He also shows how to reuse existing .NET libraries and share business logic across apps.

Resources:

Get Started

Visual Studio Dev Essentials

James on Twitter

James on GitHub

James's Surface Book Setup Guide

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 29, 2016
    Nice video, thanks!
  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2016
    Very helpful info. Thanks James for the concise presentation.
  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2016
    Can't wait for this merge with Xamarin! I don't want to have to buy a Mac or Xcode for that matter in order to develop iOS apps.
    • Anonymous
      July 08, 2016
      Brandon, you will still need to buy a Mac (or use a hosted Mac build service like Mac in the Cloud) in order to build iOS apps. That remains a requirement. On the bright side, Xcode is free. :)
      • Anonymous
        July 10, 2016
        Robert,Thank you for sharing the information regarding solutions for those of us that do not have nor intend to procure any MAC machines
  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2016
    Great video. Kudos.
  • Anonymous
    July 10, 2016
    I know this video has to have excellent content. I was, unfortunately, interrupted numerous times during playback. I will see this in a bit or first thing tomorrow.Thank you (Ahead of time) You are appreciated!Regards,Tracy Verlin
  • Anonymous
    July 10, 2016
    I was interrupted by family. I will have to see this in the AM, first thing too. I do appreciate your time and effort.Regards,Tracy Verlin
  • Anonymous
    July 14, 2016
    Nice video.In the past I've had trouble getting a call like this to a server using TLS 1.2 to work. Can you describe the steps I would need to do to expand this demo to call using TLS 1.2?