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 ...

He said the Mono for Android 1.0 release has impressed him. "It has support for .NET 4, which developers are using. It has support for Web services, databases, Android services, and many of the ...

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.

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 ...

In the third beta release of Visual Studio 2017 15.7, which is now available for download, Microsoft has cut the time it takes to start the debugging process. Now, while an Android app is being ...

This is an area, however, where new releases (and whole new software packages) are coming out weekly. So, be aware: The recommendations in this column may already be out of date. The Pain of Emulators ...