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Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...

A month ago, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 6 with lots of bug fixes and improvements to the native UI. Now, the company has rolled out Preview 7, and just like the previous ...

In 2000, Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference was all about setting the scene for .NET, introducing many of the technologies we’ve used for the past two decades. Twenty years on, it’s fair ...

In a previous post, we learned how to set up Xamarin and Visual Studio for Android development and covered one or two basics of how it works. We also looked at some basic code to allow us to count ...

From Visual Studio Live!: Microsoft's Xamarin guy James Montemagno described the combination of C# and Xamarin as the perfect mobile platform. Certain combinations just make sense, and C# and Xamarin ...

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 ...

Apparently developers can now use C# and F# to develop and publish native apps for Android devices as well as the devices running on iOS from Visual Studio directly. Also, there will be no limitations ...

Microsoft announced in February its plans to acquire the cross-platform development platform Xamarin; the deal closed about two weeks ago. Even though the ink on the contracts has barely dried, ...

Xamarin is Microsoft’s way to easily create cross platform applications in single code, and it is coming free to Visual Studio users. When Microsoft purchased Xamarin earlier in the year, it was clear ...