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Jim Bennett

Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, Xamarin Certified Developer, author of Xamarin In Action, blogger, speaker, father and lover of beer, whisky and Thai food. Opinions are my own.

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Synergy

Featured Jim Bennett 16 Jun 2014 Visual Studio, Technology, Development, iOS, synergy, shared screen

As you've probably seen from my other posts, I'm developing iOS apps using Visual Studio on Windows as my development environment, and a MacBook Pro for running the actual builds. This is a pain when I want to test. As good as Ripple is, it's not as good as the actual iOS simulator. It's a pain jumping from one computer to the other. Thats where…

Using Visual Studio to develop Cordova apps part 2 - Creating an app

Featured Jim Bennett 27 May 2014 Visual Studio, Cordova, Technology, Mac, Development, iOS, Using Visual Studio to develop Cordova apps, angular, topcoat

Building on the previous post in this series, I thought it would be fun to try to learn Angular.js and include this in my Cordova app. I could also do with so nice looking widgets, so I decided to have a play with TopCoat. First thing I need is an app to build. One of my current 'First World Problems' is having to convert from US units (mg/dL) to…

Using Visual Studio to develop Cordova apps

Featured Jim Bennett 13 May 2014 Visual Studio, Cordova, Technology, Mac, Development, iOS, Using Visual Studio to develop Cordova apps

So after yesterdays attempt to create a 'Hello World' app using the new Cordova tools for Visual Studio, I thought tonight I'd try again. If you haven't heard the news, Microsoft announced a CTP of support for Cordova inside Visual Studio. Thats right, Microsoft is opening up to a world of other devices. The aim is to allow you to build HTML5 app…