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Microsoft Visual Studio is your gateway to a career in software development. With its comprehensive tools, you can become a front-end, back-end, or full-stack developer, or even dive into data ...

Xamarin is furthering its mission to make C# the mobile-development language of choice by allowing iOS coders to use Microsoft's Visual Studio.

Late last year, Microsoft launched Visual Studio App Center, its new unified mobile app development lifecycle solution for developers who want to write iOS, Android, Windows and macOS apps.

The company has partnered with third parties like Xamarin to provide cross-platform development using .NET, but this integration lets developers use Visual Studio to build apps for Android and iOS.

If you wanted to use Visual Studio—the premier C# and .NET development environment, the one that almost every C# developer calls home—you were out of luck. With Xamarin 2.0, that all changes.