Jim Bennett
Cloud Developer Advocate

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.

  Reading, UK

See me soon at:
DevItCof
Caribbean Developers Conference
Expert Day For Xamarin

My book:
Xamarin In Action

My podcast:
The Jim And Tonic Show
The Jim And Tonic Show on iTunes

Contact me:
  Xamarin In Action
  Twitter
  The Jim And Tonic Show
  GitHub
  LinkedIn
  YouTube
  Email
  CV

Portable class libraries

Featured Jim Bennett Technology, xamarin, plex, xamarin.ios, pcl, httpclient, portable class library, REST

Portable class libraries (or PCLs) are the flavour of the month at the moment. They are a .net library designed to be cross platform - so they work just as well on Windows 8 as they do on Xamarin. Where Microsoft are supporting Xamarin as much as possible, they are releasing a number of their core libraries as PCL. Unfortunately, where they are o…

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Portable class libraries

Featured Jim Bennett Technology, xamarin, plex, xamarin.ios, pcl, httpclient, portable class library, REST

Portable class libraries (or PCLs) are the flavour of the month at the moment. They are a .net library designed to be cross platform - so they work just as well on Windows 8 as they do on Xamarin. Where Microsoft are supporting Xamarin as much as possible, they are releasing a number of their core libraries as PCL. Unfortunately, where they are o…

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