NET platform thanks to Microsoft’s open sourcing efforts: many components that Xamarin had to develop independently could be dropped in favor of the “real”. Even without Microsoft’s ownership of the company, the Xamarin platform was set to align more closely with the. However, the two offerings are less different than they once were. These are two very different products, and the real Windows Visual Studio is the more capable product. NET-based mobile development tools, last year. Instead, it’s the latest iteration of Xamarin Studio, the cross-platform C# development environment that Microsoft inherited when it bought Xamarin, developers of cross-platform. Visual Studio for Mac isn’t, in fact, Visual Studio at all. Microsoft has always had a surprising willingness to give different products similar names, a move that generally provokes more confusion than it does enlightenment.
The biggest news is that Visual Studio is coming to the Mac-or, at least, a piece of software named Visual Studio is coming to the Mac.
Posts were published to MSDN Magazine (though they’ve now been removed) earlier than intended. On Wednesday, Microsoft is hosting its Connect() developer conference in New York City, but the company has accidentally let slip a couple of pieces of news a bit early.
