Mayur Tendulkar

Export To Application Insights With AppCenter Continuous Export

July 9th, 2018

Five-star mobile apps have one special feature: they don’t let go of their users. This can be achieved by understanding your app, the app’s users, and how these users interact with your app. The deep customer insights offered by AppCenter's Continuous Export provide a better understanding of your customers and help boost retention. By default, you receive information about your active users, their active sessions, top devices, country, language, and more!

Schedule Meetings with Xamarin.Forms and the Microsoft Graph API

November 28th, 2017

Meetings can be productive, provided they're planned and scheduled properly. There are numerous tools available to schedule meetings, with Calendar for Outlook being one of the best tools in this category. To learn how to create a mobile meeting planner app, you can use Xamarin.Forms and the Microsoft Graph API. Xamarin.Forms ensures t

Adding Storage to Mobile Apps with OneDrive for Business

August 14th, 2017

Every app needs storage, whether it's for storing a collection of the same type of records in Azure Mobile Service with Easy Tables, or a SQL Database exposed via Web Services. When the data is unstructured, NoSQL with Azure DocumentDB can be used. For scalability and high availability, Azure CosmosDb can be used in both the cases. In en

Installing Visual Studio 2017 Made Easy

July 20th, 2017

Visual Studio has evolved quite significantly since its introduction ten years ago, from IDE features to the integration of various DevOps scenarios. With Visual Studio 2017, even the installation experience has changed; developers can now select the components that they wish to download and install, as well as install various releases of

Going Global with Xamarin and Azure Cosmos DB

June 27th, 2017

Imagine that MyTeaCompany is a locally renowned business in Pune, India, supplying tea to the area from their ten shops within the city. They supply a huge variety of teas from Darjeeling to Assam and Thai to Korean, among others. They decide they want to take their business to the next level and create a worldwide presence on the interne

Enterprise Apps Made Easy with New Authentication & Microsoft Graph Libraries

June 7th, 2017

Many enterprise organizations are making the move to the cloud and building mobile apps for internal use. It's increasingly common to see enterprises with entire suites of internal apps to help make employees more productive, from expense reporting to leave management, even carpooling. Rather than rolling a brand new infrastructure for th

Visual Studio 2017 for the Mobile Developer

April 25th, 2017

Visual Studio is the world's best IDE, and it just got better with the recent launch of Visual Studio 2017. This release is packed full of awesome features including live unit testing, new refactorings, code suggestions, and C# 7 support, as well as features that help mobile developers build better mobile apps, faster. In this blog post,

Installing Xamarin Made Easy with Offline Installation

December 13th, 2016

Mobile application development requires a successful installation of the correct development tools & SDKs. In the case of Xamarin, your tools will be Visual Studio 2015 and third-party SDKs. As Visual Studio allows any developer to build any kind of app for any platform, while providing features like IntelliSense, code refactoring,

Adding the Microsoft Graph to Your Xamarin.Forms Mobile Apps

October 26th, 2016

The Microsoft Graph provides a unified API endpoint for access to various services like mail, contacts, calendar, files, and more. To help make it as easy as possible to interact with the Microsoft Graph in your mobile apps, Microsoft released the Graph SDK, which wraps these APIs into an easy-to-use SDK. In a previous blog post, we walk

Power Up Visual Studio Using XAML Power Toys

July 27th, 2016

Xamarin.Forms makes it fast, easy, and fun to create cross-platform mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows. When combined with Visual Studio 2015, the most powerful development environment, developers can be massively productive. From a single IDE, developers can build apps that run on any device, from mobile to IoT devices to the clou