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What is driffrent between visual studio coding and xamarin coding ::

i wanna ask is it same coding both of software

16th Feb 2017, 4:03 PM
Haqnawaz Gul
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Both are IDEs, but Visual Studio is proprietary software from Microsoft (but there are a free Community version now), whilst Xamarin is a free open source IDE. Xamarin (it used to be called MonoDevelop) are typically used with the Mono open source version of C# (http://www.mono-project.com/), whilst VS uses the official version of C# from MS. Xamarin allows you to use C# on Linux as well as iOS, whilst VS just targets the Windows platform. But, yes, both are highly regarded IDE's for C# - it is really up to your specific situation which one you should use. If you are going to be using either C++ or VB as well you will be better off with VS. Even though Xamarin can handle some other languages - including C/C++/F# (via plugins), the experience will not match VS capabilities for those languages.
16th Feb 2017, 4:19 PM
Ettienne Gilbert
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thanks for reaply me
16th Feb 2017, 4:41 PM
Haqnawaz Gul
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