Re: [Advice] Xamarin as a next step.

> > My manager now wants me to learn Xamarin, but I don't feel confortable > doing mobile apps etc. > How stable is the technology, should I buckle down and learn it, or should > I start looking for another job? > Cough! In the 37 years that I've been writing software, I can tell you without a

Re: [Advice] Xamarin as a next step.

They're all unstable except for c# and sql lol. I'd accept the challenge On Tuesday, 14 March 2017, David Rhys Jones wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently working on Web aps, using javascript / angular / c# back > ends with sql. > > I've been doing c# since it was in beta 1,

[Advice] Xamarin as a next step.

Hi, I'm currently working on Web aps, using javascript / angular / c# back ends with sql. I've been doing c# since it was in beta 1, javascript since the last centurary and angular since monday ;-) My manager now wants me to learn Xamarin, but I don't feel confortable doing mobile apps etc.

Re: Silverlight and Visual Studio 2017

Yeah it was never really meant to live past HD video disruption. We used to joke there was a secret envelope that said "open when you reach 95% ubiquity" and when you opened, it would say "delete silverlight" But .. the actual reason was due to JavaScript arms race. Google bait and switched IE

Re: Silverlight and Visual Studio 2017

And there it is... the memorial service announcement... "We're not saying its dead, and we're not saying its a life, what we are saying is - it depends"... you hear those words "it depends" its the unsaid "Its time you moved on.." --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Mon, Mar

Silverlight and Visual Studio 2017

Folks, a warning: I was just experimenting with VS2017 in a VM to be sure that all of my existing projects will work, before I upgrade on my real PC. It was going quite well until I couldn't load a Silverlight 5 project. I installed the developer runtime and fiddled around a bit and it still