Tobias Zimmergren • 11/15/2014

The New Microsoft - Visual Studio Community, Open-Source .NET, Expanded Xamarin Partnerships and more

This article covers major Microsoft announcements including the open-sourcing of the full .NET Core stack (ASP.NET 5, Core Runtime, and Framework) for cross-platform support on Linux and Mac OS X, the launch of Visual Studio Community 2013 as a free edition for non-enterprise development, and expanded partnerships with Xamarin offering free Starter Edition and templates in Visual Studio 2015. The author, a long-time .NET developer, expresses excitement about these changes and their impact on mobile app development using C# and Xamarin tools.

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