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Microsoft Makes Xamarin Free In Visual Studio, Will Open Source Core Xamarin Tech (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader cites a report on VentureBeat: Microsoft today announced that Xamarin is now available for free for every Visual Studio user. This includes all editions of Visual Studio, including the free Visual Studio Community Edition, Visual Studio Professional, and Visual Studio Enterprise. Furthermore, Xamarin Studio for OS X is being made available for free as a community edition and Visual Studio Enterprise subscribers will get access to Xamarin's enterprise capabilities at no additional cost. The company also promised to open source Xamarin's SDK, including its runtime, libraries, and command line tools, as part of the .NET Foundation 'in the coming months.' Plenty of developers will find this announcement exciting. Xamarin being free is a big deal.
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"With a C#-shared codebase, developers can use Xamarin tools to write native Android, iOS, and Windows apps with native user interfaces and share code across multiple platforms."
Allows C# devs to write mobile apps for iOS, Android, and OSX. Now C# code can run on Windows, Linux, OSX, Android, and iOS. Java killer, perhaps?
Actually, there's a production version. It's currently not free, hence the news.
An enterprise License was just under $2k ($1800 - $1900 if memory serves) per developer per platform (Android or iOS) per year. The next level down I think was ~$1k per platform per year. The License for individuals to be able to have unlimited lines of code, use of 3rd party libraries, and VS integration, among other features was I think ~$30/month per platform. They did have a free option, but you were limited in the size of the programs you could build, couldn't use VisualStudio to build and deploy the apps (limited to Xamarin Studio), and couldn't import external libraries beyond the standard C# imports.
Microsoft has a developer conference whose announcements are more directly related to the primary purpose of this site than 90% of the other posts. It happens once a year.
Don't worry, we will get back to your typical unrelated crap posts soon enough, and you'll be happy for the next 362 days.
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Believe it or not, many here do work in the Microsoft "ecosystem" and so are interested in these things. Also, the non-Microsoft stories far out number the Microsoft stories.
Dude VS 2015 is the most multiplatform version ever. No I am not paid by MS.
After Gates and Balmer, MS has made Android SDK and emulators, ported Clang to Windows, added GIT and git hub, adding Mac OSX and Linux to VS online, added support for making Xaramin and mono apps, made CentOS and Ubuntu virtual machines for Azure, open sourced and ported Powershell to Linux, made MS code editor and ported it to Linux and MacOSX, open sourced their .NET compiler and frameworks, made VS 2015 for free aka community edition which is not crippled!
Oh and ubuntu is going to run with bash on Windows 10 with apt-get. Oh and SQL Server is on Linux now too!
No folks you did not misread what I wrote.
Linux FOSS is not an OS but a religion for many on here. If you have strong blinders on how is anyone different from a creationist denying evolution?
I am not paid or a troll but if I had to choose between Oracle and MS, I would pick MS in 2015. Something unthinkable in 2001 when I too believed in the theology of free software liberation and wanted MS to die. But, like IBM things changed with competition and I grew up too.
MS may not have historically made the best operating systems. But, their business software is very strong. I see Visual Studio as being more open and better in recent releases
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I'm interested in a real life example
LabNation SmartScope software is (partly) written using Xamarin, it runs on Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS.
Link to GitHub.
/. refugees on Usenet: news:comp.misc
It's a cross-platform wrapper for Mono (an open-source version of C#/F#/.Net) that compiles to iOS and Android applications. There's a big push in Xamarin to try to make the UI (a) sane for the developer regarding versions and (b) proper native UI interfaces (not HTML5) that conform to the expectations on each device type.
It also exposes the sensors/other phone things. If you like C#/F#/etc. (although not VB.net, cause that's a bad language and only bad people like it) this is a product that used to be in the $1,000+ going free.
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