“That’s really the inspiration behind the Visual Studio 2019 release,” she said, adding that Visual Studio today was suited to developing in a broad range of programming languages.

Xamarin is furthering its mission to make C# the mobile-development language of choice by allowing iOS coders to use Microsoft's Visual Studio.

Microsoft also will integrate the Visual Studio Live Share collaboration feature into both Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code, the open-source version of the commercial product.