Microsoft Q&A Session: Visual Studio, Phone Gap, Xamarin and DevExtreme

Thanks for your time, @PaulUsher, and thanks also for jumping in and adding great value, @RockyH! Really nice to have you both here. :slight_smile:

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Preaching to the choir :pray:

@ralphm it was a pleasure, thanks to @RockyH for saving my fingers a few times :smile:

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My pleasure. Sorry Esther couldn’t be here she’s much prettier than I am.

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That’s a great little video - nice roadmap - I don’t know why anyone would limit themselves to one platform when they can build for all.

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Thank you so much for all your help today, @RockyH! You may not be as pretty as Esther, but your comments (and Paul’s) about devs and comfort zones have really got me thinking. This Q&A has been invaluable.

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Thanks @RockyH for stepping in!

Awesome! here’s a link to the free version of Visual Studio if you want to try. https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx

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Will .NET Native come out for server and desktop apps (ASP.NET, WinForms)?

Hi @tpoise .NET has supported native desktop and server apps since the beginning. You can create Windows Forms apps for desktop and all manner of server-side apps. You can do this with native controls or HTML / XAML style controls for modern (post Windows 8) apps.

I think I was misunderstood. I meant .NET Native. We want it for ASP.NET! :smile:

Ahhhh … Yes. Essentially this is a factor for C#. So if you are using C# for your ASP.NET server side code then yes.

Really handy video, @RockyH. It’s very hard to understand how all this fits together, so a basic overview like that is really valuable. :slight_smile:

Thanks @ralphm I’m writing a book to cover building apps and services this way. It goes in to just a bit more detail than the video. :wink: I truly believe that the DiD approach is the future of app development.

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IMHO it’s already here now and has been for a while

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I think the idea of Device Independent Delivery has been, but in my experience, few people are doing it correctly or efficiently. Too many organisations do multi-team siloed development and get zero code reuse. Or they do a really half-… job on all but one of the platforms they chose.

Since Java “write once, run anywhere” :wink:

Java innefficient? Half-adf.ly? meh, debatable I guess.

I can’t help but think that keeping up with all the current platforms would be a massive undertaking let alone what’s on the way, seeing as the diversity is growing logarithmically and not linear. But from what I’ve learned in these sessions recently I’m sure I’ll be spending some time and effort digging deeper and getting my hands dirty.

For XAML visual design Microsoft made a great IDE called Expression Blend. You can also design a lot of elements in Expression and export them as a XAML resource dictionary.

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