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112: Decrypting Encryption Aug 27, 2018

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On this week's pod we take a look at the current state of web and app security for developers. We discuss options when dealing with TLS/SSL, database encryption, and how to store items securely in mobile apps.

Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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111: The Three Equals of a Struct Aug 20, 2018

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We get nerdy again diving deep into the world of struct equality and performance. Sit back and get ready for some operator overloading, IEquatable, performance implications, getting of hash code, amazing C# 7 features, and how ValueTuples save everything!

Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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VS Live Chicago — **110: The Future of App Development** Aug 13, 2018
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We are back with lightning talks with topics submitted by our amazing listeners. We take a look into performance, cross-platform UWP XAML with Uno, deep dive into the world of Xamarin.Forms, and give our thoughts on the future of app development.

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Platform-Specifics - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
Layout Compression - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
Xamarin.Forms Fast Renderers - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
Xamarin Profiler - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs
Azure Active Directory B2C | Microsoft Azure
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109: Neural Network C# Predictions for Everyone Aug 06, 2018

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It is that time again for more machine learning! This time it is actually something that you can totally build and something that Frank shipped inside of his application to do code prediction using Python, Keras, PlaidML, and CoreML!

We talk about the main use case, the route Frank took to create the machine learning model, what hardware and software he used, and the final outcome to predict code while you type.

Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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**108: .NET Standard Wants & Modernizing Win32 Apps** Jul 30, 2018
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This week we have a quick followup on System.IO.Pipelines that leads into a deep discussion of what we want in .NET Standard vNext. We then investigate the motivation, optimizations, and reality of porting a Win32 Application to run inside of a UWP container for the Microsoft Store.

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Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface

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Instabug: Instabug helps mobile teams to connect with customers, accelerate their workflow, and release with confidence. With the best-in-class bug and feedback reporting, secure crash reporting, intuitive in-app surveys, and reliable infrastructure that supports over two billion devices worldwide, Instabug helps development and product teams easily collect bugs and feedback from beta testers and customers. Instabug automatically attaches screenshots, device details, network logs, repro steps, and tons of other critical insights needed to resolve issues and prioritize product backlogs. Mobile teams accelerate their workflows by seamlessly integrating with third-party tools like Github, Jira, Slack, Zendesk and much more. Get your free trial and t-shirt once you integrate Instabug, visit instabug.com/merge
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Desktop conversion for UWP apps - Windows app development
.NET Core 3 and Support for Windows Desktop Applications | .NET Blog
Immo Landwerth (@terrajobst) | Twitter
NuGet Gallery | System.Numerics.Vectors 4.5.0
Calca - The Text Editor that Loves Math
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praeclarum - Calca in the Microsoft Store
The Visual Studio Image Library - Visual Studio | Microsoft Docs
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107: App-Centric vs Developer-Centric Jul 23, 2018

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We tackle a listener submitted topic this week of how we make decisions between performance, frameworks, and convenience when building applications. It is an interesting question when choosing a framework or library and their trade-offs.

Frank sees it a bit differently than James does when building apps. We look at how we have built apps from our present, past, and future when we look at developer productivity.

Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub
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Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for .NET MAUI, Xamarin, WPF, Windows Form, Win UI, Flutter, Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and more! Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download their free e-books.

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VSLiveRedmond — **105: Marzipanifying Apps** Jul 09, 2018
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The time will soon be upon us that we can start shoving all of our UIKit based applications on to macOS! What a glorious day that will be once Apple opens up those APIs to developers... or perhaps that day is today with a few hacks! We discuss everything we love about Marzipan and the potential that it has on our applications, frameworks, and the industry.

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Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub

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Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface

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**SUPPORT US ON PATREON**: patreon.com/mergeconflictfm
Sponsored By:
Syncfusion: Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for .NET MAUI, Xamarin, WPF, Windows Form, Win UI, Flutter, Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and more! Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download their free e-books.
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: · Redmond – August 13-17 · Chicago – September 17-20 · San Diego – October 7-11 · Orlando – December 2-7 Promo Code: MERGECONFLICT
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steventroughtonsmith/marzipanify: Convert an iOS Simulator app bundle to an iOSMac (Marzipan) one (Unsupported & undocumented, WIP)
Apple Events - WWDC Keynote, June 2018 - Apple

103: .NET Everywhere with Miguel de Icaza Jun 25, 2018

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What more do we need to say? We sat down with Miguel de Icaza to pick his brain about the past, present, and future of .NET. Miguel gives his insights into where the entire industry is moving and why GUI based console applications are so important.

We start first with how .NET and Mono are changing the world and evolving quickly. We then move on to what WebAssembly is and how it is set to change the web forever. Finally we discuss his vision for Console# and his four pillars for building great apps for the console.

This is a legendary episode that you do not want to miss.