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Jeremiah is a US-based blogger who bought a Nexus One the day it came out and never looked back. In his spare time he watches Star Trek, cooks eggs, and completely fails to write novels. The majority ...

Java is the underlying code for the Android OS. But one company has changed all that, ripping out most of the Java and replacing it with C#. That means .NET developers can code in a familiar language ...

Xamarin, the cross-platform mobile app development company that's now a Microsoft unit, updated the tooling in its standalone IDE and its Visual Studio counterpart, along with platform-specific SDKs.

In another nod to the winners of the mobile market share battle — Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS — Microsoft is improving its signature Visual Studio IDE with more functionality for their phones and ...

Xamarin has been bringing .NET to iOS and Android developers for a number of years, including enabling iOS development from within Visual Studio. Microsoft, of course, has been doing the same for ...

Microsoft recently released the third preview build of Visual Studio 17.5 and one of the notable additions was a spell checker, which has been enabled for C#, C++, and Markdown files. Out of the box, ...