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Trying out Xamarin Studio 2.0 Starter Edition

Trying out Xamarin Studio 2.0 Starter Edition

Xamarin Studio is an IDE that allows developers to create iOS, Android and Mac apps using C#.  Recently Xamarin released Xamarin Studio 2.0 and along with a free Starter edition.  While the Starter edition is very limited it allows developers to see what Xamarin Studio is like and how writing Android apps using C# works.  I was hoping to create an iOS app, but it turns out a Mac is still required in order to write iOS apps even…

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Added by Douglas Ching on March 8, 2013 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Silverlight 3.0 - The First Real Threat to Flex





I just finished reviewing the API docs for Silverlight 3. I'm really impressed with the 3.0 framework. Silverlight has always had good underpinnings including an elegant and clean API, a declarative UI, a solid VM and an excellent programming language (C#). The problem has been a lack of polish in the UI, missing high level components and missing key features already found in… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on June 28, 2009 at 8:00pm — 7 Comments

Paint Delegates in Java Swing and .NET WinForms

A few months back I blogged about an excellent Swing look and feel called

Nimbus. Nimbus is entirely vector based and does all its painting using delegates that can be layered and shared. Painters are used to draw tiled images, gradients, stripes, glass effects, etc. They also support Photoshop-like filters. Painter Example:

    MattePainter matte = new MattePainter(new Color(21, 21,…
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Added by Daniel Leuck on March 30, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

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