Episode 76: Brushes, Gradients, and Shapes

Lots of new stuff to talk about this month! Ever want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some drawing in Xamarin.Forms! Well, now in Xamarin.Forms 4.8 you can! James and Matt discuss all the ins and outs of brushes, gradients and shapes and how you can implement them in your Xamarin.Forms app. There's also new releases for Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac. Find out about how you can make your .NET meetups shine - and attend some new ones too. And tell us all about your experience about Entity Framework and Xamarin. And of course, the Azure Service of the Month and Pick of the Pod! Show Notes New Releases Xamarin.Forms 4.8 (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarinforms-4-8-gradients-brushes/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast76-podcast-masoucou) Visual Studio 2019 v16.7 (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2019-v16-7-releases/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast76-podcast-masoucou) Visual Studio for Mac (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2019-for-mac-version-8-7-is-now-available/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast76-podcast-masoucou) Twitch Visual Studio channel (https://www.twitch.tv/visualstudio) Latest News Multi-lingual support in Xamarin.Forms (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/mastering-multilingual-in-xamarin-forms/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast76-podcast-masoucou) Drawing your user interface in Xamarin.Forms with shapes and paths (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-shapes-and-paths/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast76-podcast-masoucou) A Dev Story: College Diary with Xamarin.Forms (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/college-diary-xamarin-theodora-tataru/?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast76-podcast-masoucou) Meetup resources, presentations and workshops (https://dotnetfoundation.org/community/meetups) .NET Foundation virtual user groups (https://dotnetfoundation.org/community/virtual-user-group) .NET Conf Focus on Microservices (https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/dotnetConf/Focus-on-Microservices?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast76-podcast-masoucou) Azure News Quick start with Xamarin.Forms and Entity Framework (https://docs.microsoft.com/ef/core/get-started/xamarin?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast76-podcast-masoucou) 61 videos of beginner Azure SQL content (https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Azure-SQL-for-Beginners?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast76-podcast-masoucou) Azure Service of the Month Azure App Configuration (https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-app-configuration/overview?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast76-podcast-masoucou) Pick of the Pod! Matt: Microsoft.Identity.Web (https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-identity-web/wiki) James: PancakeView v2 (https://github.com/sthewissen/Xamarin.Forms.PancakeView) As always, get yourself some free Azure here (https://azure.microsoft.com/free?WT.mc_id=xamarinpodcast76-podcast-masoucou)! 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)