There are many potential options when it comes to building cross-platform applications. They offer varying level of code reuse and usually an inverse level of device capabilities. The tools offered by ...

Cross-platform tools maker Xamarin is solidifying ties with its new parent company, Microsoft, while tackling app development for Apple iOS and Google Android with a series of technology rollouts ...

A few days ahead of the Windows 10 launch, Microsoft has released the latest version of its development environment. Over the last few years, Microsoft has been making Visual Studio into a tool for ...

Microsoft revealed today at its Build conference that Xamarin, the cross-platform application development framework it recently acquired, will be open-sourced and made part of the .Net framework.

In its continuing push towards making its tools available across platforms, Microsoft announced Thursday that it will give Windows developers using .NET the native ability inside Visual Studio to ...

Xamarin, which allows C# and .NET developers to built native Android and iOS apps, is now bundled with all versions of Visual Studio. Yes, that includes the free Community Edition — and Microsoft ...

This week, Microsoft released a new preview build of the iOS Simulator for Xamarin on Visual Studio. Announced at Microsoft's Build 2016 developer conference, the iOS Simulator in Visual Studio allows ...

Microsoft's vice president of Developer Division S. Somasegar announced in a blog post yesterday that Visual Studio 15 and .NET 4.6 are both available for download now. Earlier this month, Microsoft ...

One of the hardest challenges of mobile development is how to minimize the cost of building the same application for multiple platforms. Nick shows how to use Xamarin.Forms to develop a cross-platform ...