Episode 57: New Year - New Pod! Office Hours, Hockey App Moves, XamU Retires, and Essentials Becomes a Video Star!

In this first episode of the New Year - and the second month in a row - James and Matt chat about the office hours that Matt's been hosting with the community. James has some big news about Hockey App ... or is that App Center now? Xamarin University is retiring, but Xamarin.Essentials is now a star of its own video series! James will give you a rundown of his hands on experiences with Xamarin.Forms 4.0 and introduce you to the new .NET Community Stand-Ups. In cloud news - there's a new Azure Cosmos DB SDK in town and Matt loves the auth - and there's news about auth in Azure Functions! And we have new release news for you too! Xamarin.Essentials, Visual Studio 2017, Android Support 28 Libraries, and Unity support in App Center. Plus the Pick of the Pod! Get yourself some free Azure! (https://azure.microsoft.com/free?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Sign up for office hours with Matt (https://aka.ms/office-hours) Read about December 2018 office hour recap (https://blog.xamarin.com/office-hours-november-2018-xamarin-azure?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Hockey App's future in App Center (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsappcenter/hockeyapps-exciting-future-in-visual-studio-app-center?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) The Hockey App cutover experience (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsappcenter/a-new-year-ahead-the-hockeyapp-cutover-experience?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Microsoft Learn - find out and sign up! (https://docs.microsoft.com/learn?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Xamarin University retirement FAQ (https://university.xamarin.com/faq?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Mark Smith - head of XamU - explaining what the retirements means for you (https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/comment/358011/#Comment_358011) The Xamarin (Essentials) Show (https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/XamarinShow?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Essential API of the Week - Connectivity (https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/XamarinShow/Connectivity-Essential-API-of-the-Week?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) In-depth blog on the Collection View (https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-forms-4-0-feature-preview-an-entirely-new-point-of-collectionview?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Xamarin.Forms 4.0 preview blog (https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-forms-4-0-preview?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) James' Twitch stream on Forms 4.0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ9aIWg2x28) Merge Conflict episode on Forms 4.0 (https://www.mergeconflict.fm/127) Azure Cosmos DB - .NET 3.0 SDK (https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/azure-cosmos-dotnet-sdk-version-3-0-now-in-public-preview?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Get at that ClaimsPrincipal in Azure Functions! (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/simplifying-security-for-serverless-and-web-apps-with-azure-functions-and-app-service?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Unity support in App Center? You bet! (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsappcenter/creating-memories-with-better-devops-for-unity-games-in-visual-studio-app-center?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) Walk through the front door with Azure Front Door (https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/frontdoor/front-door-overview?WT.mc_id=vsmobiledev-podcast-masoucou) CrossGeeks Rating Slider (https://github.com/CrossGeeks/RatingSliderSample) Rating Slide blog (https://www.xamboy.com/2019/01/03/rating-swipe-control-in-xamarin-forms/) Follow Us: * James: Twitter (https://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno), Blog (https://montemagno.com), GitHub (http://github.com/jamesmontemagno), Merge Conflict Podcast (http://mergeconflict.fm) * Matt: Twitter (https://twitter.com/codemillmatt), Blog (https://codemilltech.com), GitHub (https://github.com/codemillmatt)