Have you ever thought about coding to a live audience? How about producing video content such as How-To guides? We discuss what goes into this long process, what equipment is needed, and several tips and tricks on this week's podcast.

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• Open Broadcaster Software | Home
• Ecamm Movie Tools | Ecamm Network
• Video editing and screen recording Software | Telestream ScreenFlow | Overview
• Video Editor & Video Editing Software | Camtasia | TechSmith
• Episode 5: MVVM & Data Binding with Xamarin.Forms | The Xamarin Show | Channel 9

How do you get your app into your testers' hands? App Center, TestFlight, HockeyApp, Google Play, E-mail? So many options exist, but how do you do it right and get testers signed up fast? We take a look at all the options and some tools fastlane offers.

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• fastlane - iOS and Android Automation for Continuous Delivery
• fastlane/boarding: Instantly create a simple signup page for TestFlight beta testers
• emcniece/docker-boarding: Docker implementation of Boarding for Fastlane
• Docker - Build, Ship, and Run Any App, Anywhere

Keeping up with different operating systems is hard enough, but how do you keep up with all of the new awesome features in C#, Swift, and all of the other amazing languages out there? We discuss how we do it and what is new in C# 7.1, 7.2, and take a glimpse into 8!

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• Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for .NET MAUI, Xamarin, WPF, Windows Form, Win UI, Flutter, Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and more! Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download their free e-books.

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• What's new in C# 7.1 | Microsoft Docs
• What's new in C# 7.2 | Microsoft Docs
• C# 7.2: Understanding Span | Connect(); 2017 | Channel 9
• What's new in C# | Connect(); 2017 | Channel 9
• The relationship between language features and library types | Microsoft Docs

Xamarin.Forms on the web? XAML powering your ASP.NET applications? How can this be so? Well with Frank's new Ooui library the life long dream is now a reality. While still early on, developers are loving it! We discuss where it came from and where it is going next.

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• praeclarum/Ooui: A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web
• praeclarum - Xamarin Forms on the Web
• Xamarin: Future of app development | Connect(); 2017 | Channel 9
• Ooui - Ooui Demo

James is on a DevOps kick after going on tour with Donovan in South America and he wants to automate everything! It is different this time as he wants full control with Visual Studio Team Services and he even wants to manage his own build machines! Is he crazy? Probably, listen in to find out.

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• Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for .NET MAUI, Xamarin, WPF, Windows Form, Win UI, Flutter, Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and more! Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download their free e-books.

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• Plan, Code Together, & Ship Faster | Visual Studio Team Services
• Bitrise - Mobile Continuous Integration and Delivery - iOS & Android Build Automation
• Mobile Center | Mobile App Development | Visual Studio

It is that time of the year once again! That is right, lightning talks on Merge Conflict. We cover 6 different topics submitted by your, our listeners, in under 30 minutes! This week we discuss IoC, Dependency Injection, Cloud service costs, release management, coded user interface, and our awesome podcast setup.

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• IoC Container Performance - Xamarin Help
• Visual Studio Dev Essentials
• Amazon.com: Blue Nessie Adaptive USB Condenser Microphone, Cardioid: Musical Instruments
• Zencastr
• aloisdeniel/Microcharts: Create cross-platform (Xamarin, Windows, ...) simple charts.
• aloisdeniel/Xamarin.Animations: Animate your views with simple shareable animation declarations.

When is the right time to fork a repository and send a pull request for a feature request? Or is it better use a submodule in your own repository? Or maybe just copy and paste the code into your solution? We discuss all the possibilities.

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• Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for .NET MAUI, Xamarin, WPF, Windows Form, Win UI, Flutter, Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and more! Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download their free e-books.

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We know how to share our business logic between our applications, but what about some of the user interface. We aren't talking Xamarin.Forms, we are talking cross platform views in native iOS, Android, and Windows apps. What type of architecture is needed and what technologies enable us to do this?

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• Raygun: Everything developers of any application need for native and managed crash reporting to detect and diagnose software errors.

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• SeattleGiveCamp/SGC2017_VolunteerPark: Volunteer Park Trust project repo for SeattleGiveCamp 2017
• Unleashed: Embedding Xamarin.Forms in Xamarin Native | Xamarin Blog
• praeclarum/NGraphics: NGraphics is a cross platform library for rendering vector graphics on .NET. It provides a unified API for both immediate and retained mode graphics using high quality native renderers.

In a quick follow up, James finally breaks down and learns how to properly learn the profiler. This last weekend Frank & James participated and helped organize a mobile app hackathon for charity. What went right? What went wrong? And will they ever do another hackathon again?

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• Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for .NET MAUI, Xamarin, WPF, Windows Form, Win UI, Flutter, Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and more! Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download their free e-books.

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• Merge Conflict: Merge Conflict 21: Always Be Profiling Code
• Seattle Give Camp

Google announces a slew of new products including the brand new Pixel 2, which means James has finally placed an order for a new phone. We break down the full Pixel event, but go deeper into our topic of the week of 2D and 3D cross-platform drawing libraries with SkiaSharp.

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• MFractor: MFractor makes Xamarin app development in Visual Studio for Mac much easier; use the Xamarin.Forms code analysis and generation tools to make working with XAML a breeze and take the sting out of Android development with resource intellisense or mobile specific C# code analyzers. Use coupon code MERGE-CONFLICT for 10% off! Promo Code: MERGE-CONFLICT

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• Google Pixel 2 event in under 15 minutes - YouTube
• Custom Vision
• praeclarum/NGraphics: NGraphics is a cross platform library for rendering vector graphics on .NET. It provides a unified API for both immediate and retained mode graphics using high quality native renderers.
• praeclarum/CrossGraphics: Cross-platform Graphics Library for .NET
• mono/SkiaSharp: The Skia 2D Graphics library from Google exposed to .NET languages and runtimes across the board
• An Introduction to SkiaSharp - Xamarin
• Skia Graphics Library
• aloisdeniel/Microcharts: Create cross-platform (Xamarin, Windows, ...) simple charts.