Jim Bennett

🤖 I do things with IoT and academic advocacy in the DevRel team at Microsoft.
Cloud Developer Advocate

  Redmond, WA, USA

My book:
Xamarin In Action

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Introduction to UI Testing with Xamarin

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This article is an excerpt from Xamarin in Action. Save 37% off the cover price using code fccbennett at http://xam.jbb.io. One of the great things about the MVVM design pattern is that it allows us to maximize the code in our cross-platform model and view-model layers. This means we’ve written the bulk of our code and we’ve also written unit…

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Xamarin In Action

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Over the last few months I've been busily writing away on my first book - Xamarin In Action for Manning publications. Manning are a pretty serious publisher, they count Jon Skeet amongst their authors so it was quite an honor to be asked to write for them. The first 3 chapters are now available to buy under the Manning early access program - under…

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Xamarin in Action is now on the bookshelves!

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Finally, after 2 years since I first put pen to paper (well, put keystroke to Atom), Xamarin in Action is done and available from your favorite bookseller as a printed, paper book, with a forward from my good friend, the amazing James Montemagno! You can buy this book in one of two ways - an eBook in PDF, kindle, iBook format, or a printed boo…

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Introduction to UI Testing with Xamarin

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This article is an excerpt from Xamarin in Action. Save 37% off the cover price using code fccbennett at http://xam.jbb.io. One of the great things about the MVVM design pattern is that it allows us to maximize the code in our cross-platform model and view-model layers. This means we’ve written the bulk of our code and we’ve also written unit…

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Xamarin In Action

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Over the last few months I've been busily writing away on my first book - Xamarin In Action for Manning publications. Manning are a pretty serious publisher, they count Jon Skeet amongst their authors so it was quite an honor to be asked to write for them. The first 3 chapters are now available to buy under the Manning early access program - under…

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Reviewed - Xamarin Mobile Application Development

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Xamarin Mobile Application Development By Dan Hermes (@ lexiconsystems) Recently I was lucky enough to get my hands on an early draft of Xamarin Mobile Application Development by Dan Hermes. This is a book aimed at the .Net developer who wants to get started with Xamarin, primarily with Xamarin.Forms. Let me start by saying this isn't a 'read i…

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