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Wow, the Xamarin blog tells us that Xamarin 3.0 is out, and that it's got this great new package of features to make creating cross-platform UIs VB6 IDE easy called Xamarin.Forms. Awesome, right? Let's download the new version.

Got it. And now to open a new project.

Take one didn't work out so well.

Okay, let's close it and try again with a new Xamarin.Forms project. First, it didn't give me all three projects like it said it would, only Android. And then, when I ran the Hello, World that was preconfigured...

Wow. That was great fun. I can't try it out without spending $299.

Why let the starter version create the project type if I can't even F5 the out of the box skeleton?

Looks neat and all, but I think I'm back to where I was yesterday, finally getting iOS UIs created programmatically, skipping Interface Builder entirely. Actually insanely easy, and I'm upset I didn't start doing this months ago in what little iOS Xamarin time I can squeak out.

UPDATE: From today's (5/30) webinar:

Q: Any chance we can get Xamarin.Forms working with the starter edition? Right now, it's past the size the starter lets you compile.
A: We're looking into that. :-)

Labels: android, c#, fail, gui, ios, xamarin

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Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Let's play with Xamarin Forms!!1! Or not. Wow, the Xamarin blog tells us that Xamarin 3.0 is out, and that it's got this great new package of features to make creating cross-platform UIs VB6 IDE easy called Xamarin.Forms. Awesome, right? Let's download the new version. Got it. And now to open a new project. Take one didn't work out so well. Okay, let's close it and try again with a new Xamarin.Forms project. First, it didn't give me all three projects like it said it would, only Android. And then, when I ran the Hello, World that was preconfigured... Wow. That was great fun. I can't try it out without spending $299. Why let the starter version create the project type if I can't even F5 the out of the box skeleton? Looks neat and all, but I think I'm back to where I was yesterday, finally getting iOS UIs created programmatically, skipping Interface Builder entirely. Actually insanely easy, and I'm upset I didn't start doing this months ago in what little iOS Xamarin time I can squeak out. UPDATE: From today's (5/30) webinar: Q: Any chance we can get Xamarin.Forms working with the starter edition? Right now, it's past the size the starter lets you compile. A: We're looking into that. :-) Labels: android, c#, fail, gui, ios, xamarin posted by ruffin at 5/28/2014 07:07:00 PM

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