Configuring Visual Studio 2012 to work with the Xamarin framework and PCLs
If you want to do cross development using Xamarin and Visual studio, you need to install the Xamarin tools for Visual Studio. This will allow you to create solutions that target one or multiple platforms using the magic of MVVM (Model - View - ViewModel) and PCLs (Portable Class Libraries). The Visual Studio installer can be acquired here. The download is over 1.2Gb so it may take some time depending on your connection. The installation is fairly quick and painless with only a few steps to follow on the wizard. Once the installation is complete, you can start working …[read more]