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“Our adoption of the OneNote Class Notebook has had a transformational impact on both learning and teaching at St Mungo’s High School.” —Read on to learn more.
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The new year has arrived and Forza is celebrating 2017 in the best way we know – with amazing cars ready to hit the open roads! Whether you’re cruising the wine country of Yarra Valley or tackling the most extreme elevations of Blizzard Mountain, the Forza Horizon 3 Rockstar Car Pack features seven cars that will kick your year off to a high-speed start. This pack features everything from classic Japanese power to a Ford trophy truck that’s ready to conquer anything Australia can throw at it. Then there’s the awesome BMW i8, making its production car videogame debut here… Continue reading Ring in the New Year with the Forza Horizon 3 Rockstar Car Pack
This video will walk you through implementing a swipe gesture on UITableView’s items. This is useful for scenarios like deleting, liking…We’ll use Xamarin Studio to create a table with data, then we’ll add the swipe feature. Continue reading Swipe items on UITableView with Xamarin.iOS
As our first post of the year, and the first “Extension Monday” of the year, this project seemed perfect to share…
Mario Hsiao recently released this great pack of Visual Studio Extension/Extensibility Project and Item Templates, ones that if you’re an Extension author you’ll want immediately…
“Contains numerous item and project templates that makes it easier than ever to build Visual Studio extensions.
New Project Templates:
- C# VSIX Library
- C# VSIX Project
- Visual Studio Shell Isolated
New VSIX Templates:
- Control
- Dialog Window
- WCF Service
- Window
- Wizard
New VSPackage Templates:
- VSPackage
- Command
- Tool Window
- Editor
- Service
- Dialog Page
- Option Page
Miscellaneous:
- EULA.rtf
- LICENSE
- README.md
…” [Click through to download it or get it within Visual Studio]
Once you install it you’ll get a nice Getting Started readme;
“Getting Started
Visual Studio Extensions
Creating a Visual Studio Extension
This project enables developers to create an extension for Visual Studio. The solution contains a VSIX project that packages the extension into a VSIX file. This file is used to install an extension for Visual Studio.
Add new features
- Right-click the project node in Solution Explorer and select Add>New Item.
- In the Add New Item dialog box, expand the Extensibility node under Visual C# or Visual Basic.
- Choose from the available item templates: Visual Studio Package, Editor Items (Classifier, Margin, Text Adornment, Viewport Adornment), Command, Tool Window, Toolbox Control, and then click Add.
The files for the template that you selected are added to the project. You can start adding functionality to your item template, press F5 to run the project, or add additional item templates.
Run and debug
To run the project, press F5. Visual Studio will:
- Build the extension from the VSIX project.
- Create a VSIX package from the VSIX project.
- When debugging, start an experimental instance of Visual Studio with the VSIX package installed.
In the experimental instance of Visual Studio you can test out the functionality of your extension without affecting your Visual Studio installation.
…”
Here’s a snap of just some of the Templates
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As you can imagine, it was a quite week. Everyone is recovering from Christmas, playing with their new toys, and preparing for the new year.
Yet we had our diehard hosts, authors and posters! Here’s a select 10 shows, episodes and videos.
We talk with Mai Nguyen about Cortana skills and hardware. Is MacOS becoming legacy software? And what makes a developer senior? …
This Week on Windows: We’re showing you tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your Windows 10 PC! Happy Holidays! Topics in this episode include: …
Is your idea ready for the next level? Sabrina of Nerdy and Quirky shares three keys to startup success and how Imagine Cup, Microsoft’s premier student technology competition, can help you get there. …
In this short interview recorded during the MVP Summit, Glenn Versweyveld talks about Kliva, an open-source Strava client for Windows. Strava is a running and cycling tracking social network. …
New features added in the v0.7.20160325.0 release …
In this video, I create an empty Xamarin Froms Android Application, and then I add some code to implementing OAuth to enable your mobile application to authenticate with Twitter. …
Welcome to The Xamarin Show Snack Pack Edition. A Snack Pack is bite sized episode that is focused on a specific topic and covered in just a few minutes. Today, we take a look at how to easily archive and publish Xamarin.Android applications directly from Visual Studio with the new Android Archive Manager. …
In this episode Shane and Todd do their normal dance. They talk about some cool tech stuff like SharePoint Reverse DSC and OneDrive improvements. Then it is all about artificial intelligence and how that improves our lives, for now. Then they get off topic and dive into College Football, a game for Plumbers, and Star Wars. Yes, they show their true geek sides. Watch and enjoy. …
Learn how to explore the existing UWP app to the Surface Hub device. Presentation decks and samples can be found at the GitHub: https://github.com/dxsurfacehub/Surface-Hub-Design-and-Development …
Prerequisites about Parts Unlimited HOL either if you are on Windows, Mac or Linux. …
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