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#VS2015 – How to use #Azure #Mobile Engagement and #UserControls

Hola! Implement Azure Mobile Engagement is based on 4 simple steps Create your Azure application and build your connection string Add the NuGet package to your application (if Windows 10 Universal, here’s the hack) Initialize the listener at the beginning of the app Change the inheritance in your Page views by Microsoft.Azure.Engagement.EngagementPage This last step… — read more

Oct 3, 2015
#VS2015 – PostHaste, share your code snippets with just one click! (to a #Raspberry Pi ;) #VSGallery

Hola! Today is Visual Studio 2015 extension friday’s one more time. You surely know PasteBin or GistHub, as repositories for code snippets. Today, thanks to this extension, I added one more to the list: HasteBin. The operation of the extension is very simple: Select a portion of code Display the context menu and select Post Haste This… — read more

Oct 2, 2015
#AZURE – How to use Azure Mobile Engagement in #Windows10 apps #NotOfficial

Hola! A few hours ago the final version of Azure Mobile Engagement was released. Another cool Azure service: Azure Mobile Engagement is a platform that is offered as SaaS (software as a service) which allows Analyze the user behaviors in mobile applications Segmenting users in real time and history analysis Analyze the users by functionality or by behavior Interact with users through notifications… — read more

Oct 1, 2015
#VS2015 – Free Virtual Machines with Visual Studio 2015 and #TFS2015 for demos and for learn !!!

Hola! These are rugby days and also with few time to write long posts. I also have to finish the details for my trip to London to see Los Pumas !!! So, I’ll create a note (as a blog post) to share the latest version of Visual Sfudio 2015 ALM virtual Machines. There was a… — read more

Sep 30, 2015
#WINDOWS10 – #IoT Kit for #Raspberry Pi 2

Hola! Great news for the makers community. Specially for those who wants to try the new Windows 10 IoT Core. Microsoft y Adafruit make an agreement to create and distribute an IoT Starter Kit for Windows 10 and Raspberry Pi 2. With two main editions – Raspberry Pi 2 included at 114.95 (link) – Raspberry Pi 2 not included at 39.95… — read more

Sep 29, 2015
#VS2015 – ShowMyGitBranch, quick view of the current #Git branch ;) #VSGallery

Hola! Again Visual Studio 2015 extensions Friday’s. Today’s extension only performs one Task; Display in Visual Studio 2015 title bar, the name of the current GIT branch where we are working Maybe it seems to be a little one, but IMHO is great. Next, a video so you can understand this. 2 times I was… — read more

Sep 25, 2015
#VS2015 – Do you need #Xamarin Forms Designer? This may help you ;)

Hola! Finally, I think Xamarin Forms begins to make sense in my head. A nice one in this training ride, is when I start to learn more about Xamarin Forms, at the end I learn a lot about Android and iOS. But still, I miss something as simple as a visual designer for Xamarin Forms… — read more

Sep 23, 2015
#VS2015 – Timer for #Xamarin Forms? you’ve got some options to choose

Hola! If you also like to live on the edge, you probably also like a lot to deal with performance issues in your applications. One of the best ways to accomplish this is to add a bad management of concurrent tasks or deal with threads in the wrong way. If you don’t know much about… — read more

Sep 22, 2015
#INNOVATION – How #diversity can be used as an engine fostering creativity (the good diversity)

Hola! Today the idea that diversity embrace creativity is accepted, and also that diversity can be used for the emergence of new ideas. In a team or company, if you push for more plurality of ideas, you’ll find a creativity-oriented culture. To get more information, an excellent resource is [Where do new ideas come from?]… — read more

Sep 21, 2015
#VS2015 – DebugStudio, You can Debug in GODMODE in Visual Studio

Hola! Again Visual Studio 2015 extensions Friday’s. Today is time for a very fun developer activity: "The debug mode". The senior developers or demigods mostly consider debugging an unworthy Act. I also am who think it’s much more productive to "think before to debug". However, I am also aware that if you goes into debug… — read more

Sep 18, 2015
#INNOVATION – Teach to solve problems, not to use tools

Hola! In many people who I admire I usually find a very agile mind, which enables them to solve problems in a natural way. This usually occurs in those people who are deep experts in a special topic, and they are also constantly adding new knowledge to their skills. This type of people are formally… — read more

Sep 14, 2015
#VS2015 – #Arduino IDE for Visual Studio 2015 #VisualMicro

Hola! Today again is Visual Studio extensions Friday. Today extension is a great one: “Visual Micro for Visual Studio 2015“. There is an update for this one today, and this weekend is going to be some Arduino work, so let’s go for it. I’ve written several posts about Visual Micro. I’ve got be honest: if… — read more

Sep 11, 2015
#VS2015 – Some lessons learned working with #Android and #WindowsPhone Virtual Machines for development

Hola! The development experience using Visual Studio 2015 creating apps for Android or Windows Phone is amazing. Until you get to a point where you need to work with Bluetooth, the you realize that the emulator does not support this feature and you need to find a workaround. So far the best alternative option I’ve… — read more

Sep 10, 2015
#INNOVATION – Back to the basis, or how can great ideas fall through due its high complexity

Hola! There is a moment in the LEGO history, that fascinates me. During some complicated years for LEGO as company, one of the policies which driven the organization, was try to copy models which are profitable for the company. Among those models were the LEGO RCX set (then LEGO Mindstorms). The basis of these sets… — read more

Sep 7, 2015
#SPEAKING – Is a company #CEO the best person to speak at events?

Hola! Steve Jobs has been one of the most important public people in the past years. It has been a reference for many people, although always trying to emulate him is not usually the best idea. A clear example of this, is to see how many CEOs are the main Speakers at events and this… — read more

Sep 5, 2015
#VS2015 – Code Lens Health Indicator, code metrics in the source code editor

Hola! Again Visual Studio Extension Friday. Today’s extension allows you to get an online “maintainability index” of your code. I need to go back to the year 2008 to find my firsts posts on Code Metrics in Visual Studio. The final value for this is a value between 0 and 100, which display the health… — read more

Sep 4, 2015
#VS2015 – Icon Generator for #Xamarin Android app

Hola! All developers knows that you must spend some time to ensure the usability in an App. A good app, with a poor user experience, is going to fail for sure. This topic is huge and those who knows have written tons of materials about it. Also, I’m quite lazy, so I won’t write about this. Caution!, being lazy is on of the top… — read more

Sep 1, 2015
#INNOVATION – 4 tips for working as a #StartUp within a large #organization

Hola! Raise in a large company with startup or agile mentality is not always easy. If the company has thousands of employees and several years of experience, you’ll often find a middle and upper Management layer who always try to use the “known formulas” to lead teams. This is not a problem (as my mother… — read more

Aug 31, 2015
#VS2015 – Create a #Vsix installer for the Delete all comments in a file with #Roslyn sample extension

Hola! Some people asked about how hard is to create an Installer for the simple in the post “#VS2015 – Delete all comments in a file with #Roslyn”. Is very easy, so I´ll write a couple of posts with the answer to the question and also later, on how to publish this one to the… — read more

Aug 29, 2015
#VS2015 – Associate Recent WorkItems, very useful extension if you perform #CheckIn actions again and again with the same WorkItem

Hola! Again Visual Studio Extension Friday. Today’s extension is very useful when you perform Check-ins associated to the same WorkItem again and again. I learn the WorkItem id number, and I quickly add it into the Pending Changes panel, or can search for the WorkItem using a WorkItem Query. Anyways this extension make the CheckIn… — read more

Aug 28, 2015