Xamarin, with an upgrade to its Mono for Android SDK on Monday, is adding a drag-and-drop, graphical designer for building Android application interfaces within either Microsoft’s Visual Studio ...

In Visual Studio 2015, that cross-platform reach is going to include C++, too. Microsoft's development environment will include support for the Clang compiler and LLVM infrastructure for targeting ...

Novell yesterday released the production version of Mono for Android, a set of tools and plug-ins that enable .NET developers to write applications for Android-based devices. The Mono for Android 1.0 ...

Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 was also released today, marking five updates of varying sizes to the development tool. Some of these updates have been little more than bug fixes.

The company previously has offered capabilities for Android and iOS in Visual Studio. A Microsoft official cited an enhanced installer as a key to the “15” preview.

One option is to use the emulators delivered with the Android SDK. ... (at least, that was my experience with Visual Studio 2017). Both Google and Microsoft have released new emulators this summer ...

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 will include enhancements that allow Android developers to test their apps in less time.

If you’re a fan of programming here’s some news you may like. Ahead of the release date for their new operating system Microsoft have released Visual Studio 2015, their programming development ...

Almost ironically, what Visual Studio 2015 doesn't support, at least for now, is the Windows 10 Universal App Platform (UAP). Of course, that's not exactly surprising.

At its Build 2016 conference today, Microsoft announced it is open-sourcing the Xamarin SDK and making the tool a free component of Visual Studio.