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Day 1 of the Visual Studio Connect() event today was packed with announcements, some of which are pretty dramatic changes to the Microsoft development landscape. The obvious headline announcement which everyone is talking about (and will likely continue to) is the Open Sourcing and Mac/Linux support for the .NET Core Framework. This, along with the NuGet deployment mechanism for app-local copies of the framework, are going to be a huge shift in how ....

*Written for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC release The recently introduced Universal apps for Windows are a significant improvement on the previous level of code sharing available across XAML platforms. For the first time you can share not only PCL compliant .NET code but also a significant amount of XAML, and additional UI related assets like language resources. For MVVM apps this now can mean adding sharing of Views on top of shared Models and ViewModels that can be created with today’s PCLs....