View the source on GitHub. I put together a brief sample, largely based off of James Montemango’s Plugin.Media extension for Xamarin.Forms. I just wanted to quickly test out Xamarin’s camera functionality, so I built this. In the future, I’ll add support for Azure Blob Storage, which would allow you to upload the image to the…
I recently started working on a Xamarin.Forms project, where I need to use Azure Blob Storage to host pictures taken from a mobile device’s camera. Along the way, I came across several great tutorials illustrating how to take advantage of blob storage, but they were all missing one key part: I couldn’t use this namespace: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Blob;…
This evening I gave a talk at the Philly.NET user group, out of Microsoft’s Malvern office. Joel Martinez, a SDE on the Xamarin team suggested I talk about Xamarin Workbooks, Xamarin’s latest offering, which provide a blend of documentation and code that is perfect for experimentation, learning, and creating guides and teaching aids. Workbooks allow you…
Writing code for multiple platforms can be a lot of work. It can be even more work to have to completely rewrite it for each one, too. What if you wrote an application in C++, but wanted it to be displayed in the browser somehow? Well now, with a tool called Emscripten, that’s possible. Emscripten is…
As part of this commitment I am pleased to announce today that Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Xamarin, a leading platform provider for mobile app development. In conjunction with Visual Studio, Xamarin provides a rich mobile development offering that enables developers to build mobile apps using C# and deliver fully native mobile app experiences…
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This lab goes through the process of creating an ASP.NET Web API project in Visual Studio, and then writing an iOS app using Xamarin to consume the API. With these tools though, you can just as easily write an application that works for iOS, Andriod and Windows Phone. By the end of this lab you…
Here’s a link to download it. You’re probably already familiar with Visual Studio tools for Unity (formerly UnityVS), which allows you to debug your Unity sessions while using Visual Studio. The problem up until this point though, was that there wasn’t support for it in the latest version of Visual Studio. Since Microsoft bought the…
Update 4/24/15: The team has released Prepose on GitHub under the MIT license! The link is here. While support resources currently do not exist, please try it out and see if it works for you. Kinect 2 for Windows has been out since last July, and we’ve seen a ton of awesome projects coming from it.…
I’ve been working on a shmup for some time now, and just started blogging about it. One issue I came across was writing an inventory system. There are many out there, but they just didn’t work for me. I wanted something simple, and only needed it to work with my weapons and powerups. Since my…