Building Universal Apps with Rocky Lhotka

.NET Rocks!

• Episode: Building Universal Apps with Rocky Lhotka
• Website: .NET Rocks!
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• Duration: 00:59:00
• Published: 2014-12-02 05:00

Carl and Richard talk to Rocky Lhotka about where universal apps in Visual Studio are really going. But first, a bit of a landscape discussion, especially a laugh about the "comeback" of .NET and C#. Did Xamarin save the day? Rocky talks about how universal apps aren't all that universal, but with Xamarin in the mix, you start to look at a common code base for desktop, laptop, tablet and mobile development. Almost. Maybe. It's always more complicated than you think! But Rocky is optimistic that things are going the right way, so that everyone can start building cross-platform applications for their customers really soon.