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ColinDabritz · on July 19, 2012

To be clear, I assume you are asking about developing for iOS using MonoTouch and VisualStudio. Android development is in Visual Studio natively.

Apparently you can do some development, but you can't compile in Visual Studio.

http://escoz.com/blog/developing-with-monotouch-on-windows-a...

So you get Visual Studio, Intellisense, tools like Resharper, but you can't quite build, because of missing elements. The build process would be to swap over to the Mac side to build and simulate.

Not perfect, but it's nice to know it's there.

j_s · on July 20, 2012

MonoTouch is $79/student ('currently enrolled at an accredited institution [...] even publish to Apple's App Store') per http://support.xamarin.com/customer/portal/articles/177042-d...

Be sure to check out MonoDevelop, which has a few full-or-most-time paid developers behind it: http://monodevelop.com/Screenshots

davidjade · on July 19, 2012

This will let you load MonoTouch projects is VS and compile but the compile is only for syntax checking, etc... You still have to do the actual binary build on a Mac. Still, with this you can use all the refactoring tools, plug-ins, Intellisense, etc... that VS has to offer.

https://github.com/follesoe/VSMonoTouch