Visual Studio 2015 is now available for developers to build Windows 10 apps. It also lets you port iOS and Android apps or work on them directly.

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

“That’s really the inspiration behind the Visual Studio 2019 release,” she said, adding that Visual Studio today was suited to developing in a broad range of programming languages.