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I'm running Windows 7 professional, installed Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013. Now, I got to work with development of android applications in c# and I want to do it in Visual studio Express edition. I found Xamarin would integrate android and iOS application development with c# and Visual Studio. I installed xamarin for visual studio here

I tried to integrate Xamarin in Visual Studio, but couldn't succeed with it.

I followed the developer.Xamarin instructions, couldn't find xamarin panel in tools -> options (in the BUILD host settings).

Instructions here, shows the integration of xamarin through migration from visual studio 12 to visual studio 13. I think it's out of my point from my concern.

I find some of the questions in stackoverflow are quite similar, though they were marked as answered but I'm sure there might be some other best solutions.

monotouch, visual studio - Xamarin IDE are some of the posts that I found uninformative. I couldn't get any conclusion from those posts. I'm truly disappointed with the posts(spent lot of time, but my issue was not solved). Any help is really appreciated.

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Giri
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  • for xamarin developer instructions http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/ios/getting_started/installation/windows/introduction_to_xamarin_ios_for_visual_studio/ – Giri Jul 02 '14 at 16:50
  • it was not clearly explained @hichris123 – Giri Jul 02 '14 at 16:57
  • @hichris123 please go through the link https://xamarin.com/visual-studio : it is quite clear that xamarin can be installed within visual studio express 2013. – Giri Jul 02 '14 at 17:01
  • I don not see Express mentioned anywhere on that page. – Jason Jul 02 '14 at 17:08
  • ok. Is there any way to instal Xamarin with express – Giri Jul 02 '14 at 17:10
  • NO. VS Express does NOT support any plug-ins or add-ins. For Xamarin Android development you can use Xamarin Studio on Windows. – Jason Jul 02 '14 at 17:16

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Visual Studio Express does not support plug-ins and cannot be used with Xamarin.

What are the minimum system requirements?

Xamarin requires the platform SDKs from Apple and Google to target iOS or Android, and our system requirements match theirs. To build for iOS, you'll need the latest iOS SDK (currently iOS 7), which requires an Intel-based Mac running OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). Our Visual Studio Extensions for iOS and Android support any non-Express editions of Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013.

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  • so, do you say that xamarin couldn't be installed within visual studio – Giri Jul 02 '14 at 16:55
  • With Visual Studio yes, with VS Express no. If you can't get the full version then you should use Xamarin Studio. – SKall Jul 02 '14 at 16:59
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Visual Studio Express --> Free but no plug-ins, so no Xamarin Visual Studio --> expensive but plug-in support

these look the same but are very different products.

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