A revamp of 'hot reload' functionality headlines a bevy of improvements to Xamarin that were highlighted by Microsoft this week as it launched Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 and .NET 5 during the .NET Conf ...

Xamarin mobile developers using Visual Studio gained some functionality common to other IDEs as XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms was introduced with the new Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 release.

New Xamarin 2.0 for developing native mobile applications using C# offers a way for Microsoft Visual Studio developers to build apps for iOS and Android devices.

Visual Studio users will receive access to the Xamarin toolset for free, while the Xamarin core is being open sourced and made part of .Net.

From the ebook: Visual Studio 2019 became generally on April 3rd, bringing with it a slew of new features aimed at making developers more productive.

Xamarin also supports development on OS X using Xamarin Studio. This too is now available for free as a community edition for small teams, and is included in MSDN Subscriptions.

Xamarin, which Microsoft bought last month, is now a free part of Visual Studio. Now .NET and C# developers can make iOS, Android, and Windows apps all at once, using the free Community version of ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 16.4, the newest version of its full integrated developer environment (IDE) that was launched in April.