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Now that Windows mobile (phone) app development is pretty much history, I wonder whether it makes sense to develop Windows desktop store apps or just move over to other platforms.
At this moment, the next step in choosing the right path is confusing if you are a Microsoft fan and a mobile developer.
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Xamarin?
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Licensing costs and performance.
I also tinkered with Cordova, but whatever is used, it looks like something is always missing working with apis and html.
I find it easier working with native code.
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As far as I know, since the release of VS2015 Xamarin is free - no licence is required beyond that you need for VS anyway. I fit into the Community Edition as a one-man-band, but I'm not aware of any additional licence for Enterprise users. (It was the licensing costs that put me off it as well, before MS acquired it)
Performance? Don't know how much of a problem that will be: the old "C++ native vs C# speed" debate went very quiet several years ago, so it may be the same here - if not now then in a few releases time.
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They removed the 'deployment' costs for Xamarin?
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Yes they did.
This space for rent
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They want you to believe that they did, but they're just lulling everyone into a false sense of security.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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This was big news earlier this year, Microsoft acquired Xamarin, and it's now included with Visual Studio. No additional per-dev/per-OS costs.
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Nish Nishant wrote: No additional per-dev/per-OS costs.
Its not this cost that is the worry.
Every app download used to require a license. That was not good.
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Abhinav S wrote:
Every app download used to require a license. That was not good.
That's not right. Xamarin's licensing was always per-dev/per-OS. So if 2 devs worked on code deployed to 3 OSes, that'd require 6 licenses.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
There are some things that you see, and you can't unsee them
Which movie?
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Striptease II - 20 years later[^] - I've heard that Melissa McCarthy is going to star in that... 
Perfect timing BTW as the original Striptease was released in 1996... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 2-Sep-16 4:57am.
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One night in Paris 
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This is one of few quotes where this answer actually makes sense 
modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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"Source Code - The Code Review"
(yes|no|maybe)*
"Fortunately, we don't need details - because we can't solve it for you." - OriginalGriff
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Bottle of whisky on friday 
rahul
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Curse of the Plumber Crack
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Not exactly the same, but you made me think of this[^]...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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:shudder:
That needed a public health warning! 
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8mm! 
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The bee's buzzing explosive indolence lost one hundred Romans!(11)
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