Matt Lacey and Marcel Alexander Wagner - Creating Cross-Platform C# Applications with Uno Platform

Build apps with C# and XAML that run on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and WebAssembly

Matt Lacey

Marcel Alexander Wagner

BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI

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Matt Lacey has been building desktop and mobile software since the '90s. He currently works as an independent development consultant and focuses on helping developers to create better software. Having worked in companies of all sizes and in a wide variety of industries, he brings this breadth of experience to present a viewpoint that considers technology, business, and design.

Matt is a Microsoft MVP in Windows Development, regularly speaks at user groups and conferences in multiple countries, and is a prolific contributor to a plethora of open source projects. He lives in the UK with his wife and two children.

Marcel Alexander Wagner is a full-stack software developer and open source contributor. He is a Microsoft MVP in Windows Development and a top contributor to the WinUI library and the XAML Controls Gallery, while also contributing to other projects and libraries, including the Windows Community Toolkit and Uno Platform.

Marcel graduated with a Bachelor of Science in computer science and has since been developing applications and services with a wide variety of technologies, including React, Java, C#, C++, UWP, and Uno Platform. He currently resides in Germany.

David Oliver is an open source framework developer with a .NET background. He is a recovering physicist and lapsed Australian. He is currently a senior developer on the Uno Platform core team.

Martin Zikmund is a freelance software developer and Microsoft Developer Technologies MVP. He specializes in building cross-platform mobile and cloud solutions on the Microsoft technology stack. His passion is contributing to open source, especially to Uno Platform. You can also encounter him on Stack Overflow, where he frequently helps other developers. To document his developer journey, Martin regularly writes articles on his blog and tweets about interesting things he comes across. In his spare time, he likes to play squash, game on Xbox, read, and search for geocaches.

Nick Randolph currently runs Built to Roam, which focuses on building rich mobile applications. He has been identified as a Microsoft MVP in recognition of his work and expertise with Microsoft application platforms.

Nick is an active contributor in the device application development space via his blog. He has been invited to present at a variety of events, including TechEd and Ignite Australia and NZ, DDD, NDC, and local user groups. He has also authored multiple books on Visual Studio and Windows development.

Shimmy Weitzhandler is a skilled full-stack developer and consultant working independently.

He has been coding for nearly two decades, and has used technologies ranging from ASP.NET, HTML, and JavaScript with VB.NET to WPF, Silverlight, WinUI, and, for the past few years, Uno Platform.

Among his projects are an emergency response system, a club card management and points accumulation portal, video conversion software, a school and college system, e-commerce websites, and QuickBooks components.

Shimmy is an active member and contributor on key tech hubs such as GitHub and Stack Overflow.

He is well known for his distinct programming style, his architectural thinking, and his dedication to creativity and transparency, utilizing the latest technologies.