Xamarin support for Visual
Studio development, for both Android and iOS, includes a myriad of tools
and features available to mobile developers. In addition, developers
familiar with Visual Studio can leverage existing skills and increase
productivity by developing in VS. Visual Studio support also means that
applications sharing code between iOS, Android, and Windows can be
developed in the same IDE. This section will introduce Xamarin Visual
Studio support, and provide guidelines for developing Xamarin
applications in Visual Studio.
This article shows how to build, and test Xamarin iOS applications using Visual Studio. It will explain how to use
Visual Studio to create new iOS projects, build an iOS application and then compile, test and debug using a networked Mac
to host Apple’s compiler and simulator, and Xamarin’s build toolchain.
This article examines how to create iOS applications entirely in code using Visual Studio.
It shows how to start from an empty project template to build an application screen in a controller
by creating a hierarchy of views from UIKit. Then, it discusses how to create custom views that can
be loaded in a controller.
The iOS Designer was introduced to Xamarin for Visual Studio in the
Xamarin 3 release. This guide covers the features of the iOS designer.
It covers designer basics and demonstrates using the designer to lay out
controls visually and to edit properties.
In the Introduction to the iOS Designer guide we introduced the key
concepts and parts of the iOS Designer. This guide walks through the
steps of creating a multi-screened application using the iOS Designer.
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