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Quote: Posting this in the Lounge because my informal research shows it gets more views than Insider News[^].
If everyone thought the same way then everyone would post their content here and it would quickly degenerate into chaos.
Quote: Xamarin has announced that their free Starter Edition[^] will now be usable from within Visual Studio.
The Xamarin Starter Edition has always worked with Visual Studio. I was using it over a year ago before getting the paid version.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Dominic Burford wrote: The Xamarin Starter Edition has always worked with Visual Studio. I was using it over a year ago before getting the paid version.
That was not my experience when I started using Xamarin in Feb 2014.
See "Activating a Trial in Xamarin Studio" on this[^] page which states "with the Starter Edition, you can use Xamarin to build and debug small apps (up to 128k), and even deploy them to your device for testing. However, if you want to try out the full power of Xamarin, including Xamarin.Forms and full Visual Studio support, you have the option of a free 30-day trial of Xamarin Business Edition for any of our products."
/ravi
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I downloaded the Starter Edition around October 2013 and that version came with VS support. You couldn't build full apps (you were limited) but you could build and deploy your apps to either an emulator or physical device.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Ah. I think they changed their configuration with the introduction of Xamarin Studio, which was intended to support the Starter and Indie versions.
/ravi
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So Visual Studio Community Edition with Xamarin Starter Edition and you have a platform for nice Android/iOS development using your .NET skills...I think I will try it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I haven't looked yet, but this does look like a nice intro. Not having forms, though, is a major fail point for me. There is light at the end of this tunnel though: a new client asked me yesterday if I had Xamarin experience, giving me the idea that if I can demonstrate basic competence, I may get to do Xamarin dev for them, on their license.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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We've teamed up with a company just outside of Toronto to get us a more reliable supply of T-shirts. The current CafePress T-shirts just aren't cutting the mustard so these guys have stepped up to print us some decent threads and get them shipped in a sensible time. Plus we've managed to get the cost down significantly (with a goal to getting it down further).
If you're interested in a T-shirt while also being a guinea pig for the new store, you're welcome to give the CodeProject T-shirt store[^] a burl.
If you have any problems, find bugs, or have suggestions for CodeProject stuff you'd like to buy, yell loudly[^]. I did warn the guys that putting together site for 11M highly trained (or thereabouts) software developers was something only the brave do. They forged ahead regardless.
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 6-May-15 12:18pm.
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If you select a man's t-shirt, then select a size, then hover near the size label some text appears over the size you have selected. The little i icon that I was expecting to tell me how big 5XL really is does nothing.
Firefox version something.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Thanks. I've added an item[^] in the Bugs and Suggs forum
cheers
Chris Maunder
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chriselst wrote: 5XL
Is it an image of Andre the Giant?
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When scrolling to the bottom, the page gets a small seizure, flickers a few times violently up and down and then settles some ~50 pixels above the bottom 
Only happens in maximized browser on my first monitor:
Win7
FireFox 37.0.2
Viewport 1760 x 896 px
Resolution 104.72727584838867dpi
Pixel ratio 1.0909091234207153
Orientation portrait
edit: not any more after closing and re-opening the page
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Free TShirts for the MVPs?
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Remember who will deliver them, and what he'll be wearing... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Remember who will deliver them, and what he'll be wearing...
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Doesn't Sean deliver your MVP certificates in person?
If you get an email from him be careful - the lobster costume he used this year was...disturbing...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Doesn't Sean deliver your MVP certificates in person?
Naah. Too many miles between Canada and India.
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You lucky person! The Mankini and nipple tassles combination was bad enough, but... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wut?! They're not orange?
Heading back to insider news (I think someone forgot the chain this morning)
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Wut?! They're not orange?
We tried that, but they were causing retinal damage.
Orange will appear in an upcoming design.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Put me down for an orange on white one when available! Black is too depressing!
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It's annoying when you get burls on your T-shirt -- if you don't believe me, give it a whirl.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Giving it a whirl in Australia would require taking it off and swinging it, possibly causing someone to lose an eye.
A burl is far safer.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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lol.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Chris Maunder wrote: They forged ahead regardless.
Poor judgement in no way implies poor quality, Chris. But why did Bob get relegated to the backside? He should sit proudly where, in lesser product lines, an alligator would be perched! And he should be much larger, with holographic eyes that follow the watcher.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Holographic eyes with friggin' laser beams.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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