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James Montemagno

Microsoft Channel 9

Seattle, WA, United States

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  • Microsoft Azure
  • Xamarin

Past articles by James:

SnackBar & Toast (Xamarin Community Toolkit)

With SnackBar and Toast it is now easier than ever to show a little notification to the user. It can pop-up at the bottom of your page or be attached to any VisualElement! In this show I have Vladisla → Read More

Improving Accessibility with Xamarin Community Toolkit

With the SemanticEffect and SemanticOrderView in the Xamarin Community Toolkit you now have all the tools to make your Xamarin.Forms app more accessible. In this episode I am joined by Shane Neuville → Read More

Building Accessible Mobile Apps

This week, James is joined by Rachel Kang, software engineer on the Xamarin.Forms and .NET MAUI team, who talks to us about the importance of building accessible apps. She shows off how you can start → Read More

Lifecycle Events (Xamarin Community Toolkit)

Pedro is back for another episode! This time he will tell us all about the Lifecycle Effect that he implemented for the Xamarin Community Toolkit. With this effect you can hook into the Loaded and Unl → Read More

Image Tinting (Xamarin Community Toolkit)

Getting all your image resources in the right color can be a big pain. Between iOS and Android alone you will have to add them in many different dimensions. John has made this a whole lot easier by im → Read More

User Stopped Typing Behavior (Xamarin Community Toolkit)

If you've ever needed to implement a search bar, you will know the hassle of implementing this functionality. You don't want to send every keystroke to your backend! So, once again, you take some Canc → Read More

XAML Hot Reload Updates

This week, James is joined by Dmitry Lyalin and Tim Miller who show off the latest and greatest in XAML Hot Reload technology with the new "changes only" mode that saves the state of your ru → Read More

Building Our First Microservice

This week, James is joined by Nish Anil who is here to walk us through building our very first Microservice for our mobile apps with .NET, ASP.NET Core, Docker, Kubernetes, and more! He shows how to s → Read More

Xamarin Community Toolkit

Popups can be annoying, but not the Xamarin Community Toolkit ones! In this video we will learn from Andrew, master of popups, how to use the newly implemented popups in your Xamarin.Forms app. In par → Read More

Xamarin Community Toolkit - Forget Time Zones with DateTimeOffsetConverter

In this episode we will learn everything about the DateTimeOffsetConverter that is included in the Xamarin Community Toolkit. Mark Allibone knows from first-hand experience that sometimes, in a backen → Read More

Xamarin Community Toolkit - WeakEventManager To Stop Memory Leaks!

In the same area as AsyncCommand and AsyncValueCommand, we also have the WeakEventManager and DelegateWeakEventManager in the Xamarin Community Toolkit. Don't worry about unsubscribing your events eve → Read More

Web APIs for Xamarin Developers

This week, James is joined Brady Gaster who is here to talk to use all ASP.NET Core Web API and why it is absolutely awesome for mobile development with Xamarin. He walks us through some best practice → Read More

File Picker (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week)

Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. On this week's Essential API of the week we take a look at File Picker, that allows your users to pick ou → Read More

Xamarin Community Toolkit: StateLayout

Whether you're loading data, you need to show an empty state or maybe an error occurred. With StateLayout you can visualize this easily from within just one control. In this episode I have Steven as m → Read More

Xamarin Community Toolkit: TabView

In this episode of the Xamarin Show we're talking about the much anticipated TabView. The TabView is now included inside of the Xamarin Community Toolkit and I have Javier on, who has worked on this, → Read More

App Actions (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week)

Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications. On this week's Essential API of the week we take a look at App Actions, that allows you to add shortcuts → Read More

Introducing the Xamarin Community Toolkit

The Xamarin Community Toolkit is a collection of Animations, Behaviors, Converters, Effects and even controls for mobile development with Xamarin.Forms. In this episode, I have Javier on from the Xama → Read More

Improved XAML Data Binding Diagnostics

This week, James is joined by Dmitry Lyalin, Senior Program Manager - XAML Tooling, who is here to talk about some brand new features available for XAML developers in Visual Studio 2019. He walks thro → Read More

Xamarin.Forms 5 Is Here!

This week, James is joined by David Ortinau, Xamarin Principal Program Manager, who is here to talk about all of the goodies that are available in the brand new release Xamarin.Forms 5.0! He walks us → Read More

Introducing .NET Live TV

Introducting .NET Live TV, your one stop shop for all .NET and Visual Studio developer live streams across Twitch and YouTube. → Read More