At the Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft announced that it acquired the C # and. NET Mobile development tools Xamarin last month for free for all Visual Studio users. All versions of Visual Studio are covered from the free Community Edition to the Enterprise Edition, which means that developers can use it. NET and C # build apps for Android and iOS platforms. It is worth mentioning that some of the enterprise-oriented Xamarin features are not open to free vs users and require Visual Studio Enterprise to use these features.
Microsoft has also announced that it will release the open source Xamarin SDK in the coming months, and that the source code for runtimes, libraries and build tools will be released on GitHub, and these open source projects are to be created. NET Foundation management.
Xamarin for Visual Studio users free Xamarin SDK will open source