We’re working closely with Microsoft to make it easier than ever to build native Windows, Android and iOS apps in Visual Studio, giving the best possible development experience to developers who are increasingly going mobile. Nat Friedman, Xamarin CEO and cofounder, said they are working on that but did not provide details at this time: We asked Xamarin if they intend to extend their cooperation with Microsoft in this area.

MSDN subscribers will also have special pricing for Xamarin subscriptions.

The online school’s training courses teach developers how to create cross platform mobile apps for iOS and Android. The recently launched Xamarin University will be available for free for a limited number of MSDN subscribers.Xamarin now includes Microsoft Portable Class Libraries which initially had a restriction to be used only on Windows, but that restriction was recently lifted. Xamarin is one of the VS 2013 SimShim partners, releasing an integrated version of their tools the same day Microsoft releases Visual Studio. Xamarin is to collaborate with Microsoft to better integrate their technology into MS developer tools and services.The agreement covers the following aspects:

Xamarin has announced today a partnership with Microsoft to provide up-to-date support for developers working in C# and Visual Studio to build fully native cross platform mobile applications that run on iOS, Android, beside Windows which is already supported. Xamarin University teaches developers how to do that. Xamarin partnerships with Microsoft to let developers build iOS and Android applications in Visual Studio.

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