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Syncfusion’s Xamarin Holiday Challenge

Syncfusion’s Xamarin Holiday Challenge

Syncfusion provides over 1,000 components and frameworks for applications, whether you are using Xamarin or any number of other programming tools. What is the Xamarin Holiday Challenge? It is designed to help deveolpers understand how easy it is to add Syncfusion’s controls into your project. In particular their Essential UI Kit for creating an onboarding walkthrough (think app tutorial) and a simple login page, plus you will integrate the Syncfusion Scheduler control into your app. There are instructions for both…

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Authentication Using Microsoft App Center

Authentication Using Microsoft App Center

This article is part of the October Xamarin Best Practices Challenge Featured in the Weekly Xamarin Newsletter In an earlier post we learned how to Get Started with Microsoft App Center to monitor analytics and crashes for your app. Now we will take a deeper dive into implementing authentication within your app. We will assume that you already have accounts setup for Azure and App Center. You also should have at least one app configured in App Center. Create an…

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Getting Started with Microsoft App Center

Getting Started with Microsoft App Center

This article is part of the October Xamarin Best Practices Challenge Developers use App Center to Build, Test, and Distribute applications. I will show you how easy it is to get started with App Center to monitor the status and usage of your apps using the Analytics and Diagnostics services. First you’ll want to head over to the App Center website and create a new account. Next you will be asked to select a username. If you work for a…

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Helen Georgia a Classic South-German Style Town

Helen Georgia a Classic South-German Style Town

Helen, Georgia, is one of the top tourist attractions in the Southeast. Located only a couple hours north of Atlanta in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. A friend told me about Helen, GA and even though I had never heard of it I though it would be a nice day trip for my wife and me. After searching for things to do I decided on the following itinerary: Hofer’s of Helen German Bakery for breakfast Walk around town…

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Installing Visual Studio for Cross-Platform Mobile App Development

Installing Visual Studio for Cross-Platform Mobile App Development

Install Visual Studio Community Edition First head over to the Visual Studio website and download Visual Studio Community Edition. Open the installer file and follow the prompts till you see the following screen. For cross-platform mobile apps select the ‘Mobile development with .NET’. That is all that we need to select to get started. Next click Install. It will take several minutes depending on your internet connection so be patient. Create Your First Mobile App Once the install is complete…

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Welcome to my blog!

Welcome to my blog!

Code Welcome to my blog! I’m excited to share with you the things I am passionate about… Programming, Technology and Traveling. I started programming several years ago and I began with Visual Basic. I quickly learned that C# was the future and was fortunate enough to switch early in the learning process. Bob Tabor was instrumental in helping me learn C# and I encourage you to check out his free course on Channel 9. He has more courses available on…

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