Azure Service Bus Notification Hub for iOS + Bonus Xamarin Binding!

Posted on 23 May 2013 by Roy Cornelissen

Recently I’ve been working with Edwin van Wijk on the brand new Azure Service Bus Notification Hub by Microsoft. It’s a unified messaging hub for delivering push notifications to mobile devices. The current iteration supports Windows Store and iOS apps. Continue reading →

Slides and demo code for our 80% code share talk

Posted on 22 May 2013 by Roy Cornelissen

Marcel and I have crafted a blogpost with slides and demo code for our 80% Code Share session at the Xamarin Evolve 2013 conference. The post can be found here on Marcel’s blog. We tremendously enjoyed the Evolve conference, delivering Continue reading →

Tips on code sharing with Partial classes and methods

Posted on 22 May 2013 by Marcel de Vries

The past few months, Roy Cornelissen and I presented several sessions on how you can achieve code sharing using the Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS products, and not only enable code sharing cross iOS and Android, but also Windows Phone and Windows Continue reading →

Test-driving HDInsight Developer Preview – installation

Posted on 21 May 2013 by Koos van Strien

After some initial playing around in my home-grown Hadoop-solution, I decided to try out Microsoft’s free-to-download HDInsight solution – for starters in a virtual machine. But before using it, it first has to be installed. Database installments always have something Continue reading →

How to ensure you have enough licenses for TFS?

Posted on 21 May 2013 by Marcel de Vries

This week at the VS live conference in Chicago I sat down with one of the attendees and we had gone some of the interesting new nuggets of TFS administration, the administration log files, that can be accessed now from Continue reading →