I know there are ways to do it with XCode 5 but is it possible with my infrastructure? I'm using Visual Studio 2012 and MonoTouch. In XCode I can go under Debug > "Simulate Background Fetch" or there is also a second way: XCode Menu, "Product" => "Scheme" => "Edit Scheme" enable the option "Background Fetch".

Unfortunately this is currently not possible in Xamarin Studio/Visual Studio. But we're working on it, and it will be included in a future release.

iOS7 Testing Background fetch in Simulator?

I know there are ways to do it with XCode 5 but is it possible with my infrastructure? I'm using Visual Studio 2012 and MonoTouch.

In XCode I can go under Debug > "Simulate Background Fetch" or there is also a second way: XCode Menu, "Product" => "Scheme" => "Edit Scheme" enable the option "Background Fetch".

Unfortunately this is currently not possible in Xamarin Studio/Visual Studio.

But we're working on it, and it will be included in a future release.

I noticed the new update of Xamarin Studio 5.0 included Background Fetch support. (http://docs.xamarin.com/releases/studio/xamarin.studio_5.0/xamarin.studio_5.0/)

When debugging using the simulator, go to Run->Simulate IOS Background Fetch