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Microsoft .NET Core Framework

EN.Wikipedia "ASP.NET Core".
GitHub "ASP.NET and Entity Framework".
- GitHub "aspnet/Home" - “The Home repository is the starting point for people to learn about ASP.NET Core. ”.

GitHub "xamarin/Xamarin.Forms", Github "XLabs/Xamarin-Forms-Labs" - “Xamarin Forms Labs is a open source project that aims to provide a powerful and cross platform set of controls and helpers tailored to work with Xamarin Forms”.
There is no GUI designer for XAMARIN Forms. I.e. you may not use the Visual Studio GUI designer.
THEWISSEN.IO - Xamarin, .NET Development and more... "Creating a good-looking Xamarin Forms UI: Runkeeper" - Reference implementation with XAMARIN Forms.

2015-11 - Codesize limit 128K.
- Xamarin FAQ, 2015-11 - “Xamarin Starter is our free tier that allows developers to build and publish simple apps that contain no more than 128k of compiled user code (IL), don't call out to native third party libraries (i.e., developers may not P/Invoke into C/C++/Objective-C/Java), and are built using Xamarin.iOS / Xamarin.Android (not Xamarin.Forms). Xamarin Starter installs automatically with Visual Studio 2015, and works with VS 2012, 2013, and 2015 (including Community Editions)”.
2015-02 - Codesize limit 64K.
- ThinkGeo Forums "Supporting Xamarin Starter/Visual Studio Community Editions", 2015-02-19 - “For the Xamarin starter plan, I think we might not support it right now. Because Xamarin limits the size of the compiled user code (IL) to 64k (It is double size now. It is used to be 32k)”.
2013-02 - Codesize limit 32K.
- Xamarin Suggestions - How can we improve Xamarin? "Increase the starter binary size to more than 32K", 2013-02-26.

Reddit "Xamarin - Is it worth all the trouble?".
StackOverflow "Is Xamarin free in Visual Studio 2015?" - “Actually, we expanded our Starter edition to work now in Visual Studio for building smaller iOS and Android apps for free. This does not include Xamarin.Forms though, which is only available in the trial or any paid subscription”.
Xamarin Forum "Tools and Libraries / Xamarin Studio / Xamarin Starter Edition - build limits?".
- Question: “Can you clarify if the build limit for Xamarin Studio Starter edition is” ?
- Answer: “It's per application. When you build an iOS or Android executable project, the build process scans the executable and finds the assemblies it uses in order to includes them in the app. The executable and the assemblies it references are all are all counted towards the size limit, with the exception of the assemblies that are part of the framework. Note that even if the linker is set to removed unused methods from user code, the size calculation is performed before this takes place”.
- Comment: “You wouldn't be able to use even MonoGame for example in the starter edition”.
EN.Wikipedia "Xamarin".

Visual-Studio and Expression-Blend may be used to generate and display XAML.
- See Windows Phone and See Software Development Tools.
The free lightweight XAML editor Kaxaml, CodePlex "kaxaml", GitHub "thinkpixellab/kaxaml" - “supports .NET 4.0, WPF + Silverlight”.
- Experts told me that the tool originally was intended for learning XAML. Thats why it is no GUI designer, but you must know the XAML syntax precicely, without any tool support, to create a GUI interface...