New VSM columnist Nick Randolph kicks off his Mobile Corner column by showing how to build a YouTube search app using Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend.

Nick looks at the preview release of Blend for Visual Studio 2015 and demonstrates some tips and tricks that will save you time and help you build better looking Windows Phone applications.

Xamarin is furthering its mission to make C# the mobile-development language of choice by allowing iOS coders to use Microsoft's Visual Studio.

If you have an existing web application, open it in Visual Studio Code (preferably copying it to a new development branch) and then use the PWA Studio tools to convert it into a PWA.

If you want to code using Visual Studio Code but you're using a Chromebook, it's not a problem at all.