Month: January 2018

Lottie is a client library that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json and renders them natively on the client. Alexandre maintains the UWP port of the library (LottieUWP), and stopped by to discuss why developers should use Lottie over other formats (such as gifs) and the benefits of a natively rendered and accelerated animations. Check […] Continue reading #ifdef WINDOWS – LottieUWP – Native Adobe After Effects animations in UWP apps→

Welcome to the New World, hunters! It’s been a very exciting ride since we announced Monster Hunter: World at E3 2017, and we’re stoked to finally bring the one-of-a-kind thrill of hunting savage monsters to the Xbox One. In Monster Hunter: World, you’ll take the role of a hunter venturing into a new, uncharted land as part of the Research Commission, who have set out to investigate a strange phenomenon of cataclysmic proportions. But your journey will not be without its challenges; the New World is filled with formidable foes. The Monsters Each creature moves and behaves like a real… Continue reading Monster Hunter: World Arrives on Xbox One→

Get those Kamehameha, Big Bang, and Death Ball attacks ready as Dragon Ball FighterZ is now available for the Xbox One family of devices and enhanced for Xbox One X. With amazing looking character models and an easy to learn but hard to master fighting gameplay, Dragon Ball FighterZ looks to be the definitive fighting game experience for fans of the “Dragon Ball” anime franchise. With a slew of features like 3 vs. 3 tag-team battles, online ranked matches, interactive lobbies and the six-player Party Match, there’s a ton here to take in and master. In addition to all those… Continue reading Dragon Ball FighterZ Available Now and Enhanced for Xbox One X→

MVP Book: Building Microservices with .NET Core 2.0 – Second Edition Gaurav Kumar Aroraa has M.Phil in computer science. He is a Microsoft MVP, life time member of Computer Society of India (CSI), certified as a scrum trainer/coach, XEN for ITIL-F and APMG for PRINCE-F and PRINCE-P. Gaurav serves as a mentor at IndiaMentor, open source developer, contributor to TechNet… Continue reading Back With A Brand New Edition – It’s Your Friday Five→

Hello, Xbox Insiders! Today we want to talk about two of the most important elements of the Xbox Insider Program: games and your feedback. You, as Xbox Insiders, help make this program and the games in it a huge success, so firstly, thank you for all you do. Secondly, we frequently receive sentiment from you asking if we are listening, and wondering if the feedback you report is looked at or even matters. The answer is yes: we are listening, it does get looked at, and it absolutely matters. The problem is we often receive feedback missing important information that… Continue reading Games: “Report a problem” like a Rockstar→

Preview Alpha Insiders can expect another new update today, complete with brand new fixes. This update (1802.180122-1917) will begin rolling out at 6 p.m. PST and will become mandatory shortly after that. Read on to learn more about the fixes and known issues related to this build. Fixes: Game Chat Fixes to improve game chat reliability. Language Packs Users will no longer see incorrect language codes for certain language packs installed. Known Issues: Profile Some users are seeing a new issue that can cause the incorrect Profile color to display after powering on the console. Pseudo-Localization You may notice strange… Continue reading New Preview Alpha System Update – 1/25/18→

It was just eight months ago when we introduced Mixer. Looking back on 2017, it’s hard to believe that so much has happened in such a short time….and it’s been an amazing feeling getting to bring our vision to life in a service and community unlike any other. Looking Back at 2017 In 2017, we introduced 4-person co-streaming, enabling streamers to combine their streams and chat on Mixer into a single unified experience, and giving viewers a way to watch the action from multiple perspectives. Several unique Mixer-interactive game experiences were brought to life during 2017, giving streamers and viewers… Continue reading An Amazing 2017 with TONS on the Horizon→

This week, James is joined yet again by friend of the show Matthew Soucoup, who shows us how to extend the built-in capabilities of any View in Xamarin.Forms with little gems of awesomeness known as Behaviors. Matt demonstrates what a Behavior is,… Continue reading Extending Xamarin.Forms with Behaviors with Matthew Soucoup | The Xamarin Show→