News
Microsoft to acquire Xamarin and empower more developers to build apps on any device
Wow. Big news this week as Microsoft is acquiring Xamarin. As Scott Gu writes, "The combination of Xamarin, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services, and Azure provides a complete mobile app dev solution that provides everything you need to develop, test, deliver and instrument mobile apps for every device."
A Xamarin + Microsoft Future
The news from Nat Friedman on the Xamarin side announcing the acquisition.
Code
The SOLID Principles in Real Life
Some helpful analogies to remind you what the SOLID principals are and how they can help you make better software
.NET `lock` is really fast!
The lock() construct in .NET is surprisingly fast. This article covers just how fast it is and show an easy approach to testing a simple scenario. Although, of course, speed comes with some caveats (and some assumptions).
Debug
Did you know– You can Drag-Drop & Copy-Paste code inside Watch Window in Visual Studio?
Speed up your debugging - drag and rop right into the Watch Window in Visual Studio!
Rapidly Diagnose and Solve Application Problems
In this video from Microsoft Virtual Academy Andrew Hall takes us through how we can debug things more quickly using Visual Studio 2015.
Community Projects
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