Episode 76: Brushes, Gradients, and Shapes

Lots of new stuff to talk about this month!

Ever want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some drawing in Xamarin.Forms! Well, now in Xamarin.Forms 4.8 you can!

James and Matt discuss all the ins and outs of brushes, gradients and shapes and how you can implement them in your Xamarin.Forms app.

There's also new releases for Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac. Find out about how you can make your .NET meetups shine - and attend some new ones too.

And tell us all about your experience about Entity Framework and Xamarin.

And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod!

Show Notes

New Releases

Xamarin.Forms 4.8

Visual Studio 2019 v16.7

Visual Studio for Mac

Twitch Visual Studio channel

Latest News

Multi-lingual support in Xamarin.Forms

Drawing your user interface in Xamarin.Forms with shapes and paths

A Dev Story: College Diary with Xamarin.Forms

Meetup resources, presentations and workshops

.NET Foundation virtual user groups

.NET Conf Focus on Microservices

Azure News

Quick start with Xamarin.Forms and Entity Framework

61 videos of beginner Azure SQL content

Azure Service of the Month

Azure App Configuration

Pick of the Pod!

Matt: Microsoft.Identity.Web

James: PancakeView v2

As always, get yourself some free Azure here!

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