Visual Studio 2015 can create cross-platform mobile apps with Xamarin, such as the Xamarin.Forms app shown, as well as with Apache Cordova wrappers for HTML5 apps.

Microsoft today announced new integrations with source-code repository startup GitHub, including an extension for Visual Studio 2015 and GitHub code samples in the Bing Developer Assistant extension.

Visual Studio now supports debugging Linux apps; Code editor now open source Microsoft doubles down on cross-platform software development.