There's a new kid on the cross-platform mobile development block, and it's challenging the likes of more established offerings such as Xamarin for building Android and iOS apps. Nothing signaled ...

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.

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 ...

The SDK workloads scheme will replace the old monolithic SDK approach, which was burdened by a long build times and large distribution sizes. "Instead, all new workloads will be built and delivered ...

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.