In a move that was expected and rumored for a long time, Microsoft is buying tool maker Xamarin. Scott Guthrie, head of Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise business, announced the intent to buy Xamarin ...

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 ...

At long last, Microsoft has bought Xamarin, This company's claim to fame is that with its Mono project, it's open-sourced a great deal of Microsoft's .NET Framework and C# language for Linux and more ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft will marry its newly acquired mobile development technology from Xamarin with its Visual Studio software development tools, expanding its offerings for developers who make ...

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Programmers who use Microsoft’s C# programming language now have an easier way to build mobile apps for iOS and Android devices. Xamarin announced version 3 of its development solution today, complete ...

Microsoft has purchased Xamarin, a startup that helps developers write apps once and have them work on any smartphone or operating system, according to an official blog entry. It's a crucial buy for ...

If you ask developers what types of improvements they want to see from their framework of choice -- whatever that might be -- performance is undoubtedly going to rank high on their lists.

Your guide to all aspects of how Xamarin has implemented .NET 4.5/C# 5's support for asynch operations in Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android. One of the great things about the .NET Framework is that ...