At Xamarin Evolve 2016, Microsoft announced further progress on the integration of Xamarin into Visual Studio. Visual Studio on Windows now provides an end to end developer experience for building iOS apps, so that you can stay in your favorite IDE and build for all platforms.
Xamarin’s new iOS Simulator remoting lets you simulate and interact with your iOS apps in Visual Studio with support for multi-touch interactions. Today, they unveiled their new feature called iOS USB remoting, which makes it possible to deploy and debug apps from Visual Studio to an iPad or iPhone plugged into your Windows PC. New Test Recorder Visual Studio Plugin now brings Test Recorder’s ability to generate test scripts to Visual Studio users.