Visual Studio Toolbox:Portable Class Libraries
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Portable class libraries enable you to write and build managed assemblies that work on more than one .NET Framework platform. You can create classes that contain code you wish to share across many projects, such as shared business logic, and then reference those classes from different types of projects, including those that target .NET Framework 4 and above, Silverlight 4 and above, Windows Phone 7 and above, Windows 8, and XBox 360. In this episode, Daniel Plaisted introduces us to this very exciting technology.
Want more information on portable class libraries? Check out these resources:
- MSDN Portable Class Library Documentation
- MSDN: Using Portable Class Library with Model-View-View Model
- Portable Library Tools for VS2010
- Portable Library Tools blog post with supported feature/platform matrix
- Create a Continuous Client Using Portable Class Libraries
- "Going Deep" Channel 9 Video with David Kean and Mircea Trofin on Portable Libraries
- Reactive Extensions – Towards a Portable Library world
- MEF and TPL Dataflow blog post
- Understanding the Portable Library by Chasing ICommand
- Portable Libraries
- Json.NET – JSON framework
- Autofac – IoC Container
- MvvmCross – MVVM framework for MonoTouch, MonoDroid, Windows Phone, and Windows Metro style
- MVVM Light Toolkit portable fork – Popular MVVM framework
- Portable Class Libraries Contrib – Portable adapters and APIsh
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Will the code projects be available for download? Or if it is a link above, which one?
The "OnYourWayHome" demo is from David Kean's Create a Continuous Client Using Portable Class Libraries MSDN article. Click on "Download the Code Sample", then on the downloads tab and you will be able to get the source (in both C# and VB). That source code is based on the Beta of VS 2012 and Windows 8 Consumer Preview. If you want to build and run the Metro style app on VS 2012 RC and Windows 8 Release Preview, you will have to make a few updates to that app. (The phone version should work as is.)
The TwitterSearch demo is from the MvvmCross project. Currently, the portable library support is in the vNext branch, so that's where I took it from. I had to make a few changes to get the Metro style app to work on VS 2012 RC.
I've just uploaded source to the Gordian's Knot Puzzle Solver to github.
My handle on twitter is @dsplaisted if you'd like to ask questions there or follow me.
Congratulations on the product, I'm using the demo version with 8 windows and doing tests with parallel programing and I'm loving it.
Many resources for the use of multicore been incorporated into the interfacing, I am now inciando tests with Asp.net and javascript 4 more until this moment I am very satisfied with the product.
Love the XNA Sample..
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