Xamarin, a leading provider of development platforms to simplify the creation and operation of cross-platform mobile applications targeting phones and tablets running iOS, Android and Windows, today announced Miguel de Icaza, co-founder and chief technology officer, will be speaking at Visual Studio Live! New York. The conference, since 1993, provides architects, developers, designers and technical managers using the Microsoft application development platform with information needed to meet and solve development challenges. de Icaza, recognized as an innovator by the Free Software Foundation, MIT Technology Review and Time Magazine, has been writing free software since 1992, cofounding the GNOME project in 1997 and directing the Mono project since its creation in 2001. de Icaza will discuss using Visual Studio to build cross-platform mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows phones, tablets and embedded devices.
“As businesses rush to develop mobile apps for multiple devices, more and more developers are choosing Xamarin to build iOS and Android apps with C# and Visual Studio,” said Nat Friedman, CEO of Xamarin. “Miguel’s extensive experience and passion will guarantee that attendees leave with everything they need to build the best apps for any phone, tablet or embedded device.”
WHO: Miguel de Icaza, Xamarin co-founder and CTO
WHAT: Visual Studio for Mobile Apps on iOS, Android and WP7
WHEN: Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 noon
WHERE: New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
In a second presentation, open to all conference attendees, de Icaza will share how Mono can help with all projects, from Mono's C# compiler as a service to running .NET code on iPhone, Android and Mac. The presentation will include demos of the open source cross-platform .NET IDE, MonoDevelop.
WHO: Miguel de Icaza, Xamarin co-founder and CTO
WHAT: Greener Pastures for C# Developers
WHEN: Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
About Xamarin
Xamarin's mission is to make it fast, easy and fun to build great mobile apps. Xamarin's cross-platform mobile app development software allows .NET programmers to use their existing skills and tooling to cut app development and operation time and costs by sharing code for apps running on iOS, Android and Windows phones, tablets and embedded devices. Indie developers, contract teams and enterprise organizations use MonoTouch for iOS and Mono for Android to accelerate and simplify the creation of high-performance, cross-platform mobile consumer and corporate applications. For more information, visit: http://xamarin.com.
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