Re: VB.NET (was Re: VS2013 Windows Phone project)

2014-11-19 Thread mike smith
It's Thursday, we can have it tomorrow. On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 4:37 PM, DotNet Dude wrote: > Did someone mention vb.net? Finally! Now I can sleep well knowing I'm not > completely a dinosaur...yet. :p > > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > >> C# is showing up in more and mo

Re: VB.NET (was Re: VS2013 Windows Phone project)

2014-11-19 Thread Mark Hurd
Yes, there are still VB.NET programmers around. My workplace is using C# for many new projects but we have lots of VB.NET (and some VB6) legacy stuff that won't go away. -- Regards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.) On 20 November 2014 16:07, DotNet Dude wrote: > Did someone mention vb.net? Finally!

VB.NET (was Re: VS2013 Windows Phone project)

2014-11-19 Thread DotNet Dude
Did someone mention vb.net? Finally! Now I can sleep well knowing I'm not completely a dinosaur...yet. :p On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > C# is showing up in more and more places. Xamarin, Unity 3d, and I'm sure >> its elsewhere. >> > > I couldn't help but notice that too,

Re: VS2013 Windows Phone project

2014-11-19 Thread Greg Keogh
> > C# is showing up in more and more places. Xamarin, Unity 3d, and I'm sure > its elsewhere. > I couldn't help but notice that too, it really gives street cred to C# ... Xamarin chooses C# as their primary language, but I see they have F# support documentation as well. Whatever happened to VB.NE

Re: VS2013 Windows Phone project

2014-11-19 Thread Stephen Price
Yeah, Xamarin is currently looking like the best option for a C# developer to develop for cross platform devices. I ran a demo at Perth .net user group where I showed a solution with 4 target OS's in one, and how/where you share your code between them. Window (store), Windows Phone, iOS and Android

Re: VS2013 Windows Phone project

2014-11-19 Thread Greg Keogh
Hi Andrew, you must have missed some chat earlier in the week. I didn't know that the phone simulator relied on Hyper-V, so I was taken by surprise. That's solved by being loaned a Mac running Windows 8.1 on the metal. I've previously downloaded Xamarin for evaluation and I spent hours reading thei

Re: What happened yesterday with Azure?

2014-11-19 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Yes, but that doesn't really provide any useful info. I want to know what the problem is, when will it be fixed and what we can do in the mean time. On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Corneliu I. Tusnea wrote: > Craig, > > There is a twitter status page: > https://twitter.com/azurestatus > > It's

Re: What happened yesterday with Azure?

2014-11-19 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Also, the failover he describes in the article is no good in yesterdays problem. I had that failover configured but it is no good if every data center goes down! On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Craig van Nieuwkerk wrote: > This effected me bad, although at least it happened during our day time

Re: What happened yesterday with Azure?

2014-11-19 Thread Corneliu I. Tusnea
Craig, There is a twitter status page: https://twitter.com/azurestatus It's still not updated .. even if it has heaps of other status updates ... :( On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Craig van Nieuwkerk wrote: > This effected me bad, although at least it happened during our day time so > I w

Re: What happened yesterday with Azure?

2014-11-19 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
This effected me bad, although at least it happened during our day time so I was immediately aware and could communicate to users. Not exactly sure what happened but I think it was related to Cloud Storage being down. Many of the services rely on Cloud Storage so when it is dead almost everything

What happened yesterday with Azure?

2014-11-19 Thread Corneliu I. Tusnea
Hi every, Yesterday Azure had a massive outage with 80% of the Azure going down world wide. At some point only the Australian, Brazil and Japan DCs were still working. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#history The outage took down XBox and Office 365 and of course everyone else running on

RE: VS2013 Windows Phone project

2014-11-19 Thread Andrew Coates (DX AUSTRALIA)
Hi Greg >> It's a damn shame you can't write phone apps this pleasantly across all the >> brands You almost can – check out Xamarin and particularly Xamarin Forms. Especially with the recent announcements (community edition of VS and the doubling of the size limits plus VS support on the Xamar

RE: [OT] Phone development and Hyper-V

2014-11-19 Thread Andrew Coates (DX AUSTRALIA)
Hi Greg, No, generally, you can’t run a VM that relies on the Hypervisor (WP8 Emulator) within a VM that relies on the Hypevisor (VMWare Player). One way to dev against WP8 from inside a VM is to use a physical device. BTW, I don’t know about VMWare Player, but VMWare Fusion allows an advanced

Re: VS2013 Windows Phone project

2014-11-19 Thread Greg Keogh
Hi Ian, Stephen at al, FYI I was loaned an Intel Mac for this specific phone job, and I put Windows 8.1 and VS2013.4 on it and the phone emulator runs fine with Hyper-V. I didn't realise until a couple of days ago that Windows Phone development is such a familiar experience if you already know WPF