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Visual Studio 2015 Community: Full-featured Integrated Development Environment for building Web, Windows Desktop and cross-platform iOS, Android, and Windows ap

Visual Studio 2015 Community: Full-featured Integrated Development Environment for building Web, Windows Desktop and cross-platform iOS, Android, and Windows apps [1]. ... cross-platform iOS, Android, and Windows apps? That's new, isn't it? [1] https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/vs-2015-product-editions.aspx https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/vs-2015-product-... EDIT: Err, sorry, the page changed since I wrote this comment, the quoted statement is gone... EDIT2: Looks like the page is flipping between two versions as I hit the reload button, probably a mirroring problem. I apologize the noise.

Cshelton 11y ago
Yes it is. Although, is .Net fully open sourced yet? or still in the process? I'm not so sure you can build an IOS app quite yet in visual studio?
- UK-AL 11y ago
  With xamarin you can.
- zuck9 11y ago
  Has been open sourced but needs work to be compatible with other platforms.
- megaman22 11y ago
  Parts of it. Stuff like WinForms and System.Web are so wrapped around the axle of Windows that they probably won't be open-sourced, but a lot of it has been.
  - tracker1 11y ago
    Winforms is fairly windows centric, but iirc there is a Mono compatability for most of the interfaces... as to System.Web, I'm pretty sure this has been open since ASP.Net v3, which iirc is included with Mono. I haven't tracked Mono & .Net as closely for the past few years as I've been doing far more node dev, and/or migrating away from .Net apps.
zuck9 11y ago
That was announced earlier.
asyncwords 11y ago
I believe that's referring to Xamarin and Cordova, which are now built into VS2015. Xamarin still requires a Xamarin subscription to compile and deploy the apps, though. On the other hand, they might also be talking about the new Universal Windows Platform bridges [1], which let you port your Android, iOS, Win32 and Web apps to native Windows apps. [1]: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/uwp-bridges https://dev.windows.com/en-us/uwp-bridges

Cshelton 11y ago

Yes it is. Although, is .Net fully open sourced yet? or still in the process? I'm not so sure you can build an IOS app quite yet in visual studio?

UK-AL 11y ago
With xamarin you can.
zuck9 11y ago
Has been open sourced but needs work to be compatible with other platforms.
megaman22 11y ago
Parts of it. Stuff like WinForms and System.Web are so wrapped around the axle of Windows that they probably won't be open-sourced, but a lot of it has been.
- tracker1 11y ago
  Winforms is fairly windows centric, but iirc there is a Mono compatability for most of the interfaces... as to System.Web, I'm pretty sure this has been open since ASP.Net v3, which iirc is included with Mono. I haven't tracked Mono & .Net as closely for the past few years as I've been doing far more node dev, and/or migrating away from .Net apps.

zuck9 11y ago

That was announced earlier.

asyncwords 11y ago

I believe that's referring to Xamarin and Cordova, which are now built into VS2015. Xamarin still requires a Xamarin subscription to compile and deploy the apps, though. On the other hand, they might also be talking about the new Universal Windows Platform bridges [1], which let you port your Android, iOS, Win32 and Web apps to native Windows apps. [1]: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/uwp-bridges https://dev.windows.com/en-us/uwp-bridges