Seems like a brilliant move on Microsofts' part, I don't really know many other toolsets for these platforms that is as "integrated", although I guess the standard still yet to be beaten by Microsoft is to be using the thing itself for its own development - i.e. fully-hosted onboard .. which is not what is happening here, I suppose? i.e. the IDE is on the 'real PC', and we just have a remote connection to the rPi for testing/running the bundle .. which is great, in and of itself, but its still not quite a full-blown "here is a full cross-platform build of Visual Studio for rPi2, which builds fat bins for all platform packages ..": which would be even greater, imnsho, as a long-time eschewer of all things Microsoft'ian, whose interest is being tweaked by this intrusion into what is, typically, a Linux-dominated domain. (Methinks it curious to see Microsoft competing so aggressively for this space..)
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Seems like a brilliant move on Microsofts' part, I don't really know many other toolsets for these platforms that is as "integrated", although I guess the standard still yet to be beaten by Microsoft is to be using the thing itself for its own development - i.e. fully-hosted onboard .. which is not what is happening here, I suppose? i.e. the IDE is on the 'real PC', and we just have a remote connection to the rPi for testing/running the bundle .. which is great, in and of itself, but its still not quite a full-blown "here is a full cross-platform build of Visual Studio for rPi2, which builds fat bins for all platform packages ..": which would be even greater, imnsho, as a long-time eschewer of all things Microsoft'ian, whose interest is being tweaked by this intrusion into what is, typically, a Linux-dominated domain. (Methinks it curious to see Microsoft competing so aggressively for this space..)