Tech Valley .NET User Group (TVUG)

While Xamarin.Forms lets you write shared code to run on multiple platforms, you often need to access features that are native to the platform. In this session, we'll go over native features directly accessible from Xamarin.Forms and now to write custom code to access other features. We will demo the native feature tools that come with Xamarin.Forms and we'll write some platform-specific code. Some experience with Xamarin.Forms is suggested. Presenter: Chris Miller, Software Architect for Tyler Technologies and Microsoft MVP After the session, we'll have an open discussion for the October topic or anything else. Agenda 6:00 pm - Welcome to TVUG, user group announcements 6:10 pm - Session start 7:10 pm - Session wrap-up, open Q&A Due to work from home and social distancing rules now in place, TVUG will be holding meetings online for the next few months. We look forward to seeing everyone in person, but for right now let's stay safe. This session will be held online, via Microsoft Teams. We'll be starting at a slightly earlier time, 6:00 PM. If your company already uses Teams, you should be able to use your installed copy of Teams, otherwise, just use the web version. When you register for the event, you'll see the link to the event.

Join James as he walks through his latest creation, Island Tracker(https://islandtracker.app) for Animal Crossing on iOS and Android. Built full cross-platform with Xamarin.Forms and leveraging Azure Functions and Table Storage as the cloud backend he will discuss his full architecture and demo how it all was pulled together. He will talk about lessons learned, preparing for release, continuous integration, user testing, and more! If you have ever wanted an insight into creating and deploying a cloud connected app then join in. Speaker Bio James Montemagno is a Principal Program Manager for Client Developer Tools at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005, working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Prior to becoming a Principal Program Manager, James was a professional mobile developer and has now been crafting apps since 2011 with Xamarin. In his spare time, he is most likely cycling around Seattle or guzzling gallons of coffee at a local coffee shop. He can be found on Twitter @jamesmontemagno, blogs code regularly on his personal blog http://www.montemagno.com, and co-hosts the weekly development podcast Merge Conflict http://mergeconflict.fm. After the session, we'll have an open discussion for the December topic or anything else. Agenda 6:00 pm - Welcome to TVUG, user group announcements 6:10 pm - Session start 7:10 pm - Session wrap-up, open Q&A Due to work from home and social distancing rules now in place, TVUG will be holding meetings online for the next few months. We look forward to seeing everyone in person, but for right now let's stay safe. This session will be held online, via Microsoft Teams. We'll be starting at a slightly earlier time, 6:00 PM. If your company already uses Teams, you should be able to use your installed copy of Teams, otherwise, just use the web version. When you register for the event, you'll see the link to the event.

Presentation: C# 9.0 and beyond Mads will take you through some of the new C# 9.0 features and the thinking behind them. Also, let’s take a look at some of the thinking for further in the future. We’ll make sure there’s plenty of time for questions and discussion! Bio: Mads Torgersen Mads is the Program Manager for the C# Programming Language. He runs the C# language design process and maintains the language specification. He also participates in the design of TypeScript and Visual Basic. You can follow Mads at https://twitter.com/madstorgersen Agenda 6:00 pm - Welcome to TVUG, user group announcements 6:10 pm - Session start Due to work from home and social distancing rules now in place, TVUG will be holding meetings online for the next few months. We look forward to seeing everyone in person, but for right now let's stay safe. This session will be held online, via Microsoft Teams. We'll be starting at a slightly earlier time, 6:00 PM. If your company already uses Teams, you should be able to use your installed copy of Teams, otherwise, just use the web version. When you register for the event, you'll see the link to the event.