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The iOS and Android part don't make sense to me. Surely you won't be running VS on your iPad? So are they saying it has support for compiling to iOS and Android

by weavie 12y ago

The iOS and Android part don't make sense to me. Surely you won't be running VS on your iPad? So are they saying it has support for compiling to iOS and Android? Wouldn't they need to mention Xamarin in that sentence for it to make sense?

wernercd 12y ago
I doubt the idea (at this point) is to "RUN" Visual Studio on iPad/Android... My money is on the App Creation naively in VS 2015 - via Xamarin or similar plugins - instead of having to rely on tools like Eclipse or IdeaU. I think I'd lose my mind if I could develop apps in Visual Studio and C# instead of having to use Java and pay $1000/year for Xamarin.
- weavie 12y ago
  It would destroy Xamarin if they made it free to develop C# for iOS/Android.
  - moonchrome 12y ago
    Highly depends on what the deal between Xamarin and MS is. For example they could work out a deal with Xamarin where they would provide free access under same terms as Visual Studio community (the >5 people) and Microsoft could pay them more than enough to cover their loss while promoting their development stack.
    - Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
      Doesn't Xamarin have a load of other stuff around testing and the like? It could just mean a move away from Xamarin as a core development tool into producing things which support development on these platforms.
      - moonchrome 12y ago
        I highly doubt Microsoft will release and support Linux/OSX/iOS/Android API bindings. What will likely happen is Microsoft will : * open source the core libs * open source the JIT * make sure it works on all platforms * open source the ASP.NET and port it to Linux/Mac so they can separate Azure from being a Windows only cloud service Xamarin then packages these in to Mono and Xamarin.iOS/Android providing a layer on top of MS core stuff. Microsoft will then be able to sell .NET as a truly cross-platform solution and make VS/Azure more popular where it's probably losing to other OSS ATM.
        Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
        I agree re Linux and OSX but I could see iOS and Android. The scale of mobile is such that if you want to be relevant in the way MS have historically, they're two platforms you can't ignore.
zo1 12y ago
I think it's just an oddly-worded sentence. They're saying that you can use VS to target multiple platforms (including IOS). They're absolutely not saying you'll be able to run Visual Studio on an IPad.

by weavie 12y ago

wernercd 12y ago

I doubt the idea (at this point) is to "RUN" Visual Studio on iPad/Android... My money is on the App Creation naively in VS 2015 - via Xamarin or similar plugins - instead of having to rely on tools like Eclipse or IdeaU. I think I'd lose my mind if I could develop apps in Visual Studio and C# instead of having to use Java and pay $1000/year for Xamarin.

weavie 12y ago
It would destroy Xamarin if they made it free to develop C# for iOS/Android.
- moonchrome 12y ago
  Highly depends on what the deal between Xamarin and MS is. For example they could work out a deal with Xamarin where they would provide free access under same terms as Visual Studio community (the >5 people) and Microsoft could pay them more than enough to cover their loss while promoting their development stack.
  - Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
    Doesn't Xamarin have a load of other stuff around testing and the like? It could just mean a move away from Xamarin as a core development tool into producing things which support development on these platforms.
    - moonchrome 12y ago
      I highly doubt Microsoft will release and support Linux/OSX/iOS/Android API bindings. What will likely happen is Microsoft will : * open source the core libs * open source the JIT * make sure it works on all platforms * open source the ASP.NET and port it to Linux/Mac so they can separate Azure from being a Windows only cloud service Xamarin then packages these in to Mono and Xamarin.iOS/Android providing a layer on top of MS core stuff. Microsoft will then be able to sell .NET as a truly cross-platform solution and make VS/Azure more popular where it's probably losing to other OSS ATM.
      - Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
        I agree re Linux and OSX but I could see iOS and Android. The scale of mobile is such that if you want to be relevant in the way MS have historically, they're two platforms you can't ignore.

zo1 12y ago

I think it's just an oddly-worded sentence. They're saying that you can use VS to target multiple platforms (including IOS). They're absolutely not saying you'll be able to run Visual Studio on an IPad.