Dynamicweb, Xamarin integration etc.

Mikkel Toustrup Olsen

Posted on 03/04/2014 10:30:23

Hey all,

I attended a course at Dynamicweb's headquarters around November last year and we bugged a bit around the integration of dynamicweb and dynamicweb based projects in Xamarin Studio, since the main part of the attendees, including me, was working on a MacBook. Recently I've changed my work setup from a PC to a MacBook and I am curious to know if any of you guys are working with Xamarin Studio in your daily DW development. I would appreciate not having to install Parallels and go the Visual Studio-way :-)

The main reason for Xamarin Studio as the development IDE is the ability to get i DW intellisense in code. I have been working with Sublime Text which is a great lightweight editor, but I would love to have the Visual Studio kinda approach. Other IDE's are welcome too! :-)

Any thoughts, ideas?

/MikkelTO

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Kim Søjborg Pedersen

Posted on 03/04/2014 15:38:02

Hi Mikkel, Visual Studio is the only tool :) I use mac to at home, and run visual studio and other windows with a little help from the parallels virtualization tool.

Mikkel Ricky

Posted on 03/04/2014 15:55:13

I've been playing around with using Xamarin Studio for editing Razor templates and it works quite well.

12 minutes ago, I created a new page, Editing Razor templates, in our Razor wiki describing how to use get started using Visual Studio for editing Razor templates. The next step is to document how you do it in Xamarin Studio. Feel free to contribute!

Best regards,
Mikkel

Mikkel Toustrup Olsen

Posted on 03/04/2014 16:18:50

Yeah I think I remember we tried implementing it at the course back in November, though I don't think we came to an actual conclusion on how to do it. I will look into it and of course contribute to the above mentioned page if I get up and running.

/MikkelTO

Mikkel Toustrup Olsen

Posted on 03/04/2014 16:21:08

Hi Kim,

I reckon that's an option, however I would really love to go the non-parallels-way. I will give Mikkel Ricky's post a shot and give you guys feedback when done :-)

/MikkelTO

Jeppe Eriksson Agger

Posted on 04/04/2014 00:05:59

HI all,

Watching the live streams from Microsoft's Build conference, I became curious whether or not we could actually create extensibility assemblies for Dynamicweb on a Mac.

I installed Xamarin Studio and created a new Library project. I referenced the Dynamicweb.dll assembly and I tried to create a Page.Loaded notification subscriber. I wrote the code exactly as I would in Visual Studio and built the project. That gave me a dll that I added to my bin folder, and the solution loaded correctly and the subscriber behaved in the expected way.

My experience is that it's very much possible to use Xamarin Studio to create .NET assemblies that work with Dynamicweb.

It should probably be mentioned that my tests were not a complete coverage of Xamarin <-> Dynamicweb, and we do not currently officially support Xamarin. Though, we (or I at least) would definitely like to know if you run into any issues with assemblies created with Xamarin.

- Jeppe

Mikkel Toustrup Olsen

Posted on 07/10/2016 21:17:55

Hi Mikkel,

I was wondering, are you still writing backend code etc. directly on your MacBook by Xamarin (or maybe even with Visual Code now) as asp.net core is fully supported on OSX ? .

BR Mikkel

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