Microsoft projects – Devstyler.io https://devstyler.io News for developers from tech to lifestyle Fri, 23 Jul 2021 07:54:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 Microsoft unveils plans to sunset Xamarin Community Toolkit https://devstyler.io/blog/2021/07/23/microsoft-unveils-plans-to-sunset-xamarin-community-toolkit/ Fri, 23 Jul 2021 07:54:12 +0000 https://devstyler.io/?p=60846 ...]]> Microsoft is revealing plans for the future of its Xamarin Community Toolkit as the .NET MAUI release nears. This year the company has been working to unify Xamarin SDKs into .NET, and it released .NET MAUI as an evolution of Xamarin.Forms with the ultimate goal of acting as a replacement. 

Included in the plans is info about the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit, a backwards-compatible version of the Xamarin Community Toolkit, and the sunsetting of the current version of the toolkit.

The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit is nearing release. Microsoft will be releasing two NuGet packages for it: CommunityToolit.Maui and CommunityToolkit.Maui.Markup. It is planning to release the first preview of these packages in August.

The team is currently in the process of bringing features from the Xamarin Community Toolkit to the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit. Microsoft recommends the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit as the toolkit for all .NET MAUI apps.

Microsoft will also be releasing two .NET MAUI-compatible versions of the Xamarin Community Toolkit to help developers avoid breaking changes when porting Xamarin.Forms apps to .NET MAUI. According to the company, these will be almost identical to the current Xamarin Community Toolkit libraries, with the only difference being a change in the Xamarin.Forms dependency to .NET MAUI.

In terms of sunsetting the Xamarin Community Toolkit, the company will continue to support it through November 2022. It will accept pull requests for bug fixes throughout time, but it will only accept pull requests to add new features through September 2021.

“Thank you to all of the amazing contributors to Xamarin Community Toolkit! We could not have created such a successful library without your help, and we can’t wait to see the amazing new features you’ll add to the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit,” Brandon Minnick, developer advocate for developer relations at Microsoft, wrote in a post.

]]> How Can Software Engineers and Business Teams Work Better Together? https://devstyler.io/blog/2021/05/10/how-can-software-engineers-and-business-teams-work-better-together/ Mon, 10 May 2021 15:52:42 +0000 https://devstyler.io/?p=50426 ...]]> Building a successful product requires a lot of hard work, especially in the sphere of technologies. That’s why team work is of great importance. Software engineers have to collaborate with business teams in order to create a product of good quality. Each team has different tasks to perform and uses different tools.

On one hand, business teams use task management tools – online task management tools like Asana and Trello can help you stay on top of your to-do lists, project progress, and calendars. They use collaborative tools so everyone the your team knows what’s been done, what’s outstanding, and who has been assigned to the task. Social Media Scheduling Tools are also of great help to business workers. For example, Buffer and HootSuite allow you to schedule posts to go out on the desired dates and times, without setting foot on the actual social media sites themselves, avoiding that distraction, as well as pump out your promotions right when you want them so you can grow your business. Setting up meetings can mean lots of emailing back and forth to find a mutually agreed upon time. Scheduling tools like Calendly and Acuity can help automate the process of setting up meetings.

On the other hand, tech teams use many kinds of tools to help them perform their tasks, such as collaboration tools, thanks to which the members of each team communicate with each other. For example, Microsoft teams. They also use project management tools like Microsoft project and Workfront, document co-creation tools that allow you to chat in real-time with your team members, like Skype. Scheduling tools are very important not only for business workers, but for software developers as well. Some of the most used scheduling tools are Doodle and ScheduleOnce.

What’s principal in the collaboration between business and software teams is open communication with each of the sides and focusing on building a great product together. This might seem like a simple task to perform, but, in fact, it can be very difficult. Gathering people in a group and making them create and innovate things is not quite easy, but with the right approach and patience, by making sure that each team is updated and involved in the process, the both the business and software teams will eventually learn how to work better together. One of the most important “rules” to follow is to measure the teams by their results, not by the time they spend in the office. Both the software and business team can have a parallel set of goals to guide each other and move forward.

Tools like Asana, Trello and GitHub are all useful tools, which the tech team can use to manage their work. These can all be visible online, and similar to Google’s OKR (Objectives and Key Results), will help to guide both the software and business team forward.

To conclude, with the right approach to each worker, with open communication, and of course, the right tools – great success can be achieved and products of good quality can be created.

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