Many of you in the Microsoft .NET Framework world are familiar with XAML. XAML is an XM-based language for working with objects. It has been used extensively in developing UIs in Silverlight, Windows ...

Every mobile and desktop platform has its own technology stack, or stacks, that developers can use to build applications. It used to be acceptable to build an application for a single platform, or ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft bought Xamarin, the popular C#-and-.NET-on-iOS-and-Android, last month. At its Build developer conference today, the company announced the first big step for its new ...

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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 Inc., now a Microsoft subsidiary based on open source software, today announced new tools to help developers connect to Macs to create native iOS apps. Xamarin, which lets developers use ...

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 ...

Xamarin today unveiled version 4 of its cross-platform development suite, featuring a new Xamarin Mac Agent that lets developers build iOS apps completely from within the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE.

Xamarin, the mobile application development startup Microsoft was eyeing as an acquisition target a few months ago, is continuing to become more strategically important to Microsoft developers by ...

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 recently brought out Xamarin, software based on letting people create programs using C# and .NET operating systems which can then be ported to both iOS and Android. This meant that using the ...