Session on "Visualize and Debug your Live Application with Xamarin Inspector and Workbooks" on Azure Vidyapitha on 31st May 2017

1. Visualize and Debug
your Live Application with
Xamarin Inspector and Workbooks
Mukteswar Patnaik
@pMukteswar
Mukteswar.Patnaik@eCanarys.com

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3. Microsoft – The Complete Mobile Solution

4. http://University.Xamarin.com

5. http://developer.Xamarin.com

6. Workbook Inspector

7. VS 2017 Installation

8. Workbook… How to get it?
https://developer.xamarin.com/workbooks/

9. Workbook : Supported Platforms

10. Do I need to use Workbook ?
Lets find…

11. Building Solutions…
• Understanding Problems
• Designing business logics
• Choosing / designing algorithms
• Creating environment,
• Choosing programing language
• Converting algorithms to codes/methods [Coding]
• Debugging, Building, Testing….

12. Interactive Coding…
Repeat until you achieve required result

13. Interactive Coding : Slow

14. Documenting Code …
Write • Code
Write • Docs
Compile
Deploy
Debug
Author Consumer

16. Workbook :

17. Workbook…
• Xamarin Workbooks provide a blend of
documentation and code that is perfect for
experimentation, learning, and creating
guides.
• Create a rich C# workbook for Android, iOS,
Mac, WPF, or Console, and get instant live
results as you learn these APIs.

18. Code & Document in one place:

19. Code Editing:
Rich Text Editing

20. Rich Code Editor

21. A Prompt: REPL [Read Evaluate Print Looped]

22. Execute – Without launching IDE

23. Evaluate : For multiple platforms
• Windows
• Mac OS
• Xamarin.Android
• Xamarin.iOS
• WPF
• Console

24. Amazing Workbook
• REPL [Read Evaluate Print Looped]
• Evaluate for Multiple platforms
• Execute Without launching IDE
• Inline launch & MiniREPL
• Read, execute, share
• Make interactive tutorial or Code Demo
• Describe & Execute API [more than API Snippet]
• Can be readable & editable externally

25. https://developer.xamarin.com/workbooks/

27. Inspector… How to get it?
• Xamarin Studio 6.2 or greater
• Visual Studio for Mac Preview 4 or greater
• Visual Studio 2015 with Xamarin 4.3.x or greater
• Visual Studio 2017 with Xamarin workload

28. Monitoring a Live Application

29. Few things about Break points

30. Inspector: An interactive tool, that allows you to inspect and
change running application

31. Inspecting Apps:
Run in debug mode & click Inspect

32. Thank You!
Q/A, If Any…