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Microsoft today announced it was open sourcing the technology behind its newly acquired Xamarin cross-platform mobile app development software, along with making Xamarin freely available in Visual ...

Microsoft said Thursday that core technology from Xamarin, the mobile app development startup it acquired last month, is now available for free in the Visual Studio toolkit, a move aimed at attracting ...

After Microsoft's Scott Hanselman introduced a bunch of new beginner-level instructional videos for .NET, Xamarin guru James Montemagno wanted to remind mobile developers that similar resources are ...

With the recent technological advancements in the Mobile sphere these days, we can use a phone to do almost anything. The major mobile market share is held by Google’s Android. Followed by Apple’s iOS ...

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 ...

Some things are predictable, like the sun rising on a cloudless morning. Here's one that most people who are mobile app developers saw coming for months: Microsoft said it intends to acquire Xamarin, ...

When Microsoft pulled the trigger and agreed to acquire Xamarin, it hardly came as a surprise to those familiar with the company. Xamarin's tools let developers build and test their mobile ...