Xamarin.Forms gives you the gift of XAML if you're looking to take the short route to building mobile interfaces.

Microsoft announced Xamarin.Forms 5.0, a major release chock full of new functionality and features, but no official support for Visual Studio 2017.

With this announcement you can enjoy Xamarin for free as part of Visual studio, and not just any Visual studio but every single version of the development software.

If you wanted to use Visual Studio—the premier C# and .NET development environment, the one that almost every C# developer calls home—you were out of luck. With Xamarin 2.0, that all changes.

Xamarin Studio IDE 6 for Mac OS X, for mobile development, brings its user interface and functionality closer to those of Microsoft’s own Visual Studio platform.

Xamarin Inc., now a Microsoft subsidiary based on open source software, today announced new tools to help developers connect to Macs to create native iOS apps.

Xamarin 3 has a number of cross-platform code sharing features, including Shared Projects, which lets developers use code across iOS, Android and Windows while using Xamarin Studio or Visual Studio.

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.

Xamarin is furthering its mission to make C# the mobile-development language of choice by allowing iOS coders to use Microsoft's Visual Studio.

Xamarin's ties to Microsoft are growing ever tighter, thanks to Xamarin's acquisition of the Visual Studio division of Clarius Consulting.

Microsoft this week released a third preview of the iOS Simulator for Xamarin on Visual Studio. The feature - announced at Build 2016 - allows developers to preview iOS apps on Windows.