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Whoa! .NET 5 is out and C# 9 is out! This means you are ready to use records, new pattern matching, and more! But wait a second... your apps haven't been upgraded to .NET 5 yet or are a project type that don't support .NET so you don't have access to the new C# 9 features :( Or do you!?!?!?! Yes, of course you do! Most new features in C# are compiler based and not necessarily runtime based. When you create a new …
James Montemagno
I could not be more excited for .NET Core 3 that will soon power all of your WPF and WinForms apps in addition to ASP.NET Core and .NET Core apps themselves! You may be saying... James... WPF... WinForms... why even bother? Well, because you may have to support some older apps and with the power of .NET Core 3 as the runtime instead of the .NET Framework it means that we no longer have to worry about what version of …
James Montemagno
I have been streaming on Twitch for over 6 months now. I stream both code on my personal Twitch channel and I also stream games and recordings of Nintendo Dispatch with my buddy Michael over on the official Dispatch Twitch channel. One thing that always bothered me was having to manually mess around with apps to get a simple countdown timer. They were too complex, had too many options, and had a bunch of quirks. So, …
James Montemagno
I love multi-targeting for creating libraries, and it is at the core of all of my plugins and Xamarin.Essentials. If you don't know what multi-targeting is don't worry as it is pretty rare that you would need to use it if you are creating apps. Most likely you will want to use multi-targeting in creating cross-platform libraries. In the past you would have to create multiple libraries for each target framework (such …
James Montemagno
Last week we announced that Xamarin projects now support netstandard libraries, which is awesome! I made a short video on how to get started and upgrade a PCL to a netstandard library that any application could consume. The first question I got was if I could install Xamarin.Forms into a netstandard library, and I quickly said I don’t think so, because when I tried Visual Studio and NuGet got all mad at me.
James Montemagno
