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Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by llomlup on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:03PM (#11398159)
This is cool. They updated the pricing page: https://store.xamarin.com/. Hint, it's free.
Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by mwcampbell on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:05PM (#11398185)
Strange that the section about Visual Studio Professional says "contact us for a quote". Can't you just purchase that from the Microsoft online store?
Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by llomlup on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:41PM (#11398498)
It could be also that Xamarin didn't want to use pricing it has no control over, e.g. what Microsoft dictates for commercial versions of Visual Studio. I assume that "contact us for a quote" would take you to the MS online store through their sales personnel anyway.

edit: typo

Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by heartbreak on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:19PM (#11398308)
It's likely the case that if you need a license of VS Pro you probably need multiple (for multiple developers) and then a volume discount may apply.
Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by addicted on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:15PM (#11398258)
I think VS Professional has been discontinued. The contact us for a quote is probably to cover legacy users.
Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by JonathonW on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:25PM (#11398368)
VS Professional is not discontinued: https://www.visualstudio.com/products/how-to-buy-vs

You can buy both it and Enterprise online. Not sure why Xamarin says to contact them for a quote, except that Xamarin's sales people really like to talk to people.

Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by iolothebard on Thursday March 31, 2016 @03:19PM (#11399816)
It's free in your MSDN if you're subscribed. I downloaded them all :-)

So if you're a VS user already, it's likely bundled with an MSDN subscription. Just link it to your Xamarin account and you're done.