This was just one of many announcements that made clear that Microsoft is going cross-platform, and open source, in a big way.Īs a longtime Xamarin developer, it was good to see how much value and attention Microsoft gave to Xamarin in the Connect() demos and presentations. Last week at the Visual Studio Connect() event, Microsoft announced availability of Visual Studio 2015 Preview, with support for creating native iOS, OS X, Android and Windows Phone apps in C# with Xamarin.