Xamarin also supports development on OS X using Xamarin Studio. This too is now available for free as a community edition for small teams, and is included in MSDN Subscriptions.

Checking for updates and development of Xamarin.Forms applications can also be done via Xamarin Studio. However, Xamarin Studio doesn't currently support building UWP apps, so for the remainder of ...

NEW YORK—The next versions of Visual Studio and .NET were given their official names today—Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015—along with a first preview release using this name. Visual Studio ...

Visual Studio 2015 can create cross-platform mobile apps with Xamarin, such as the Xamarin.Forms app shown, as well as with Apache Cordova wrappers for HTML5 apps.

Microsoft says it will make Xamarin available at no extra charge for Visual Studio Enterprise and Professional users, and include Xamarin’s capabilities in Visual Studio Community.

In its continuing push towards making its tools available across platforms, Microsoft announced several integrations with the Xamarin development tools it acquired earlier this year.

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

Xamarin 3 has a number of cross-platform code sharing features, including Shared Projects, which lets developers use code across iOS, Android and Windows while using Xamarin Studio or Visual Studio.

Microsoft did ship the Visual Studio for Mac IDE -- based on Xamarin Studio, in turn based on the open source MonoDevelop IDE -- but it also has steadily been trying to improve the iOS/Xamarin ...

Xamarin's ties to Microsoft are growing ever tighter, thanks to Xamarin's acquisition of the Visual Studio division of Clarius Consulting.