Is it possible to develop Android apps with visual studio 2010

Question

Is there a plugin or something I can use to develop Android Apps with visual studio 2010, I'm most interested in free plugins, I know about monodroid, but to my knowledge it's quite a price solution, so if there are other ways I'd be very happy.

Answer 1

I don't think there's currently anything free and production quality for Android development on VS, but there seems to be some effort towards making such a plugin a reality.

Answer 2

Unless they've removed the ability to launch external tools from recent versions of visual studio, you should be able to use it as an editor for java code and launch an ant build script from it. You might even be able to pipe stderr back through some sed scripts that would put the errors in a form that would make them clickable.

Perhaps that isn't how you want to use it, but then you didn't specify what language or development method you wanted to use, only that you wanted to employ visual studio.