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When something goes wrong, it is time to debug! Or maybe first we should write logs? Maybe we should use the intermediate window? Or perhaps write a unit test? We discuss our pro tips for debugging when something goes wrong. We also take a quick detour and talk about the cute Mini-Husky that James is dog sitting! SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfm Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Special Thanks Thank you so much for our new Patreon supporters: Tyler, Bob, Matthew R, Matthew B, Brandon, Keven, Jonathan, Aden, Daniel!Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: P E N N Y • P I C K L E S (@penelopepicklesthedog) • Instagram photos and videos Alaskan Klee Kai - Wikipedia Serilog — simple .NET logging with fully-structured events Debug Class (System.Diagnostics) Console.WriteLine Method (System) NLog Managing Exceptions with the Debugger Debugging with Xamarin | Microsoft Docs Running Xamarin.iOS Unit Tests in Visual Studio Team Services | Xamarin Blog Touch.Unit Automation Revisited | take a bit, get a byte

We are not lawyers! However, we both have our own LLCs. We explain why on this lightning talk week and also tackle your questions around performance, .NET Standard, CSS in Xamarin.Forms, and technologies we think are worth investing in. SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfm Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Special Thanks Thank you so much for our new Patreon supporters: Adam, Anders, Kevin, Nigel, Andrew, Dave, Tiago, Daniel S, Daniel JC, Aden, Jonathan, and Keven!Sponsored By: Visual Studio Live!: Visual Studio Live!: The development world's trusted educational provider of developer-focused content since 1993, focusing on .NET and Visual Studio. Join us at an upcoming 2018 event: * Las Vegas – March 11-16 * Austin – April 30-May 4 * Boston – June 10-14 * Redmond – August 13-17 * Chicago – September 17-20 * San Diego – October 7-11 * Orlando – December 2-7  Promo Code: MERGECONFLICTLinks: Styling Xamarin.Forms with CSS - David Ortinau Stylesheets by StephaneDelcroix · Pull Request #1207 · xamarin/Xamarin.Forms Miguel de Icaza on Twitter: "Very excited to announce: For the next 2 years, Don Syme @dsyme from Microsoft Research will be with the Xamarin team on an assignment to he… https://t.co/ODExrSvBDb"

We kick off the new year by not knowing what to do, what to talk about, or just about anything. All we know is Frank has taken the plunge on the new iMac Pro, so why not have him justify it and discuss when is a good time to update your development hardware and software. SUPPORT US ON PATREON: patreon.com/mergeconflictfm Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Special Thanks Thank you so much for our new Patreon supporters: Luce, Mike A, Mike H, Russel, Jacob, and Damian! <3Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links:Buy iMac Pro - Apple

Happy 2018! We made it, so let's recap the best in tech, development, life, coffee, and so much more that happened in 2017. We expose our top picks of the year and of course what we are looking forward to in 2018. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Links: Xamarin Live Player - Xamarin Onewheel // Future Motion iPhone X - Apple Introducing VSTS Mobile App Tasks Extension for iOS and Android - James Montemagno My Top Nintendo Switch Games & Accessories - James Montemagno Nintendo Switch™ - Official site – Nintendo gaming system Frank & James are creating Merge Conflict Podcast | Patreon

In this holiday special we thank our listeners by getting to all of your great questions that you have been asking about python, Visual Studio, DevOps, and so much more. We discuss our holiday hacks that we plan on doing this year along with how we have fallen in love with .NET Standard's new auto NuGet packaging. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: Wilderness Labs praeclarum/Ooui: A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web Build Your Own Continuous Integration Pole Introducing VSTS Mobile App Tasks Extension for iOS and Android - James Montemagno aloisdeniel/Standard.SpecialFolders: Just listing all .NETStandard special folder paths.

When having SQLite isn't enough for James he has to go and try to solve offline data caching again with Monkey Cache. We discuss why this open source library happened, where it is going, what are best practices for data caching, and so much more. We also follow up on Ooui's status and where Xamarin.Forms on the web is going as well as a bit of follow up on C# 7.1/7.2/8. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Links:

Have you ever thought about coding to a live audience? How about producing video content such as How-To guides? We discuss what goes into this long process, what equipment is needed, and several tips and tricks on this week's podcast. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: Open Broadcaster Software | Home Ecamm Movie Tools | Ecamm Network Video editing and screen recording Software | Telestream ScreenFlow | Overview Video Editor & Video Editing Software | Camtasia | TechSmith Episode 5: MVVM & Data Binding with Xamarin.Forms | The Xamarin Show | Channel 9

How do you get your app into your testers' hands? App Center, TestFlight, HockeyApp, Google Play, E-mail? So many options exist, but how do you do it right and get testers signed up fast? We take a look at all the options and some tools fastlane offers. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Links: fastlane - iOS and Android Automation for Continuous Delivery fastlane/boarding: Instantly create a simple signup page for TestFlight beta testers emcniece/docker-boarding: Docker implementation of Boarding for Fastlane Docker - Build, Ship, and Run Any App, Anywhere

Keeping up with different operating systems is hard enough, but how do you keep up with all of the new awesome features in C#, Swift, and all of the other amazing languages out there? We discuss how we do it and what is new in C# 7.1, 7.2, and take a glimpse into 8! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: What's new in C# 7.1 | Microsoft Docs What's new in C# 7.2 | Microsoft Docs C# 7.2: Understanding Span | Connect(); 2017 | Channel 9 What's new in C# | Connect(); 2017 | Channel 9 The relationship between language features and library types | Microsoft Docs

Xamarin.Forms on the web? XAML powering your ASP.NET applications? How can this be so? Well with Frank's new Ooui library the life long dream is now a reality. While still early on, developers are loving it! We discuss where it came from and where it is going next. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Links: praeclarum/Ooui: A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web praeclarum - Xamarin Forms on the Web Xamarin: Future of app development | Connect(); 2017 | Channel 9 Ooui - Ooui Demo

James is on a DevOps kick after going on tour with Donovan in South America and he wants to automate everything! It is different this time as he wants full control with Visual Studio Team Services and he even wants to manage his own build machines! Is he crazy? Probably, listen in to find out. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: Plan, Code Together, & Ship Faster | Visual Studio Team Services Bitrise - Mobile Continuous Integration and Delivery - iOS & Android Build Automation Mobile Center | Mobile App Development | Visual Studio

It is that time of the year once again! That is right, lightning talks on Merge Conflict. We cover 6 different topics submitted by your, our listeners, in under 30 minutes! This week we discuss IoC, Dependency Injection, Cloud service costs, release management, coded user interface, and our awesome podcast setup. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Links: IoC Container Performance - Xamarin Help Visual Studio Dev Essentials Amazon.com: Blue Nessie Adaptive USB Condenser Microphone, Cardioid: Musical Instruments Zencastr aloisdeniel/Microcharts: Create cross-platform (Xamarin, Windows, ...) simple charts. aloisdeniel/Xamarin.Animations: Animate your views with simple shareable animation declarations.

When is the right time to fork a repository and send a pull request for a feature request? Or is it better use a submodule in your own repository? Or maybe just copy and paste the code into your solution? We discuss all the possibilities. Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books. 

We know how to share our business logic between our applications, but what about some of the user interface. We aren't talking Xamarin.Forms, we are talking cross platform views in native iOS, Android, and Windows apps. What type of architecture is needed and what technologies enable us to do this? Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Raygun: Everything developers of any application need for native and managed crash reporting to detect and diagnose software errors. Links: SeattleGiveCamp/SGC2017_VolunteerPark: Volunteer Park Trust project repo for SeattleGiveCamp 2017 Unleashed: Embedding Xamarin.Forms in Xamarin Native | Xamarin Blog praeclarum/NGraphics: NGraphics is a cross platform library for rendering vector graphics on .NET. It provides a unified API for both immediate and retained mode graphics using high quality native renderers.

In a quick follow up, James finally breaks down and learns how to properly learn the profiler. This last weekend Frank & James participated and helped organize a mobile app hackathon for charity. What went right? What went wrong? And will they ever do another hackathon again? Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface Proudly recorded on Zencastr Sponsored By: Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms. Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download our Xamarin e-books.  Links: Merge Conflict: Merge Conflict 21: Always Be Profiling Code Seattle Give Camp