Microsoft’s ‘Project Islandwood’ was a curious grab for iOS apps. It is meant to bridge the gap between Windows and the iPhone, allowing developers to ‘port’ iOS apps to the Windows ...

With Xamarin as an integral part of its app development platform, Microsoft is positioned to provide developers with the tools to target Windows, iOS and Android as a single composite mobile platform.

Xamarin development in Visual Studio needs both Windows and OS X available: Visual Studio runs in Windows and it connects over a network to OS X. The OS X machine has the iOS SDK.

This is less true of iOS. A platform striving for compatibility with iOS will have to aggressively keep pace with Apple's developments, because Apple's developer community demands nothing less.

SAN FRANCISCO — April 29, 2015 — Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced new features in Windows 10 and unveiled a set of software development kits (SDKs) to help developers bring their code for the ...

Another popular option to test iOS applications on your Windows PC is Remoted iOS Simulator for Windows. It’s a developer-focused tool that comes pre-loaded as a part of Xamarin in Visual Studio.

As the company announced today, that’s not necessary anymore. With the new Xamarin Live Player, you can deploy, run, test and debug iOS apps directly from a Windows PC that runs Visual Studio.