Microsoft open-sources Xamarin, gives dev tools to Visual Studio users

Microsoft revealed today at its Build conference that Xamarin, the cross-platform application development framework it recently acquired, will be open-sourced and made part of the .Net framework.

“Everything you need to run Xamarin apps on any OS, any device, is now open source,” Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of the Cloud and Enterprise Group at Microsoft, declared in the second day keynote at Build.