In this session we will be cover developing native iOS, Android, and Windows apps in C# with Xamarin.

Announcing Microsoft Build 2017

This week, James is joined by friend of the show Laurent Bugnion, Software engineer and UX enthusiast at Valorem/IdentityMine, introduces us to the world of developing with the MVVM Light Toolkit with Xamarin development. The MVVM Light Toolkit offers Xamarin developers a MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) library that adds data binding, commands, navigation, extensions, and a whole lot more to traditional development with Xamarin. Laurent even shows us the use cases and compatibility with Xamarin.Forms. Segments: [08:00] What MVVM Toolkit brings to Xamarin development[10:00] Sample walk through with MVVM Light Toolkit[16:00] Data binding controls in Android[21:00] Simplifying adapters in Android[23:30] Data binding controls in iOS[25:00] Getting and Starting with MVVM Light ToolkitShow Links: MVVM Light ToolkitMVVM Light Toolkit Pluralsight CourseLaurent's Site & BlogFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly podcast Merge Conflict with Frank.Follow @JamesMontemagnoFollow @lbugnion

In this episode, Donovan Brown makes his debut as a co-host. He is joined by Sondra Batbold, who shows the Kanban board in Visual Studio Team Services. She shows how quickly you can customize the board to fit your team and how it is integrated with Microsoft Teams. For more information on the basics of Kanban, see the Visual Studio docs.

Golnaz and Kaitlin had the chance to sit down with ID@Xbox's Senior Program Manager, Katie Stone Perez (and host of Channel 9's Level Up show)! Katie has worked in gaming for fifteen years. In this episode she talks about her passion for games at an early age, pursuing studies in child psychology, and how that later lead her to Microsoft's ID@Xbox team. Check out Katie's People feature on Microsoft's news page here. Follow her on Twitter @KatieStonePerez

Azure Stream Analytics – adding real-time capabilities to your applications

In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Thomas Dohmke, Group Program Manager on Visual Studio Mobile Center. Thomas joins us to go over the features of the new service and the features it provides mobile developers. Mobile Center combines numerous other features including: HockeyApp, Xamarin Test Cloud, Azure Mobile Engagement, Xamarin Insights, Azure App Service, and CodePush. Mobile Center combines these features into one easy to use offer that is capable of building your mobile apps (including iOS apps without needing your own mac), automating beta app distribution, automating UI Tests, providing usage insights and crash reports, and much more. Links from the show: [04:36] - Visual Studio Mobile Center demoVisual Studio Mobile Center landing pageRequest an invite to Mobile CenterMobile Center documentationLike Cloud Cover on Facebook! Follow @CloudCoverShowFollow @chrisrisnerFollow @haishibai2010Follow @ashtomFollow @mobilecenter

Learn how to easily add powerful artificial intelligence capabilities to your applications with Microsoft Cognitive Services. See Cognitive Services for more information: http://www.microsoft.com/cognitive

This Week on Windows: Cortana helps you tackle the holidays, Minecraft adds a new cartoon texture pack and a photos app update just in time for holiday selfies! Other topics covered in this episode include: Halo Wars 2 preorderDead Rising 4 + MS rewards offerBest of 2016 (Windows Store)

DocumentDB collections are logical resources that can span multiple partitions to provide practically limitless scale. In this episode of Azure Friday, Shireesh Thota talks with Scott Hanselman about scaling DocumentDB with a partitioning collection and how best to choose your partition keys to optimize for read and write workloads. Partition management is fully managed by Azure DocumentDB and it is completely transparent to your application, so you do not have to write complex code or manage your partitions.