A Short Guide to Xamarin

Through long decade ago, coders needed to be proficient in different languages to keep their pace with the market but this is now became the history for the developers. Now their are many cross-platform application arose in the market, where you just need have proficient just only one language and platform do all that for you.
Xamarin is also one of that cross platform application and it is developed in San Francisco California. Xamarin was developed by same experts who developed Mono, MonoTouch and Mono for Android platform(MonoGame is Open source project which is available at www.monogame.com). Xamarin uses the implemtation of the Common Language Infrastructure(CLI) and Common language specification which sometimes called Microsoft .NET. There are more than 500000 developers who uses the platform actively;
Different Products by Xamarin.
Xamarin became the one of the popular products company. There are the following products Xamarin currently involved.

• XAMARIN Platform
• Xamarin.Forms
• Xamarin for Visual Studio
• Xamarin Studio
• Xamarin.Mac
• .Net Mobility Scanner
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I just make short introduction of Xamarin Platform and Xamarin Studio, you can search all this on Xamarin Official Website.
Xamarin Platform
in 2013 Xamarin released it new version 2.0, it's plug-in is available for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 and the latest visual Studio 2015 for Windows 10. This Platform allows for all OSs, you can use Windows, Android, IOS or opensource OS such as UBUNTO. It's main language is C#.
Pricing List of Xamarin.
Unfortunately Xamarin is not free, you have to pay for that. You can visit Xamarin Official Site for more recent prices but here are updated prices at the time of writing this article/guide.

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source: https://store.xamarin.com

Introduction To Monogame

In 2012, Microsoft announced Windows 8, and due to it's lack of support to XNA, which is Microsoft's famous gaming platform, it dispointed the developers community but that is not the end. The Porject Monogame arised as replacement for XNA although it's unofficial product.
Monogame is free software tool which is used by the game develpers to make their Windows and Windows Phone game on the other systems. As it's moto says 'Write Once Play Everywhere'. you can design IOS Apps for Apple or Google's Android or Sony's playstation. It seems very good platform for the game developers. Monogame was launched in 2009 by Jose Antonio and it's truely opensource product. it's source code also available on CodePlex. Monogame fully implements XNA 4(Microsoft Offical API which is not supported by Windows Store). Monogame have the ability of to integerate with Microsoft Visual Studio.The Graphics ability of the monogame came from the famous game Engine OpenGL which is used in C++.

What tools are required to develop games with Monogame?
developing game with MonoGame is fairly easy task. you need following tools to develop famous indie game using the monogame

• Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 or higher
• Monogame 

Yes, that's all enough to develop games with the monogame