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Learning Xamarin studio

By : William Smith
Book Image

Learning Xamarin studio

By: William Smith

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Xamarin Studio
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Tools, Window, and Help menus


The content of the Tools menu, seen in the following screenshot, varies greatly between Mac and Windows machines:

The commands that live in the Application menu on a Mac and in the Tools menu on Windows machines will not be revisited here:

  • XML: This submenu group contains commands to work with schemas and XSLT files.

  • Insert Guid: This will randomly generate and insert a GUID in your code wherever your cursor is located. This tool can be exceptionally useful if you frequently use GUIDs for object identification.

  • Regex Toolkit…: This will open a regex builder GUI. This bundled tool is similar to many of the regex toolkit extensions you can download for Visual Studio.

  • Launch Instruments: This will launch the Xcode Instruments utility. This utility will be discussed in more detail in Chapter 7, Testing and Debugging.

  • Launch Application Loader: This is a utility that uploads applications to the Mac/iOS App Store. This utility will be discussed in depth in Chapter...