As per present market, mobile application development is hot trend in the software industry.Growing number of mobile phone and tablets is the proof that this field will reach the top position in the software development. But mobile development having different platforms like iOS, Android, windows, etc.  Customer eager to develop their business application that supports all platforms, so most of them choosing cross platform application development. Cross platform  is the tool that support all platform, so user can create application using their existing skills like HTML5, JavaScript/jQuery, CSS and using existing development IDE (visual studio),  yes it’s amazing,  visual studio  supports cross platform application development,  here going to list out some of the top visual studio extensions that support cross platform development, done extensive research and find the below top visual studio extension that support hybrid application development.

• Visual studio Cordova

Cordova –This is Adobe Phonegap framework that is used to create hybrid mobile applications for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and other platforms, using HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Microsoft integrated this Cordova into visual studio user can download “visual studio cordova plugin” using the below link. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42675 This Microsoft Cordova integration support all the API provide by Cordova and easily access the android emulators right from the visual studio, at the same time user can access the all services already available in the visual studio, so this makes visual studio users to build application for cross-platform.

• Telerik App Builder(formerly “Icenium”)

Telerik provides App Builder visual studio extension for developing cross platform applications using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS and it also provides support for jQuery, Kendo UI Mobile, with Telerik app builder user can create interactive UI prototype using drag and drop visual designer, and it provide browser client to build and deploy the applications. Telerik not only provide UI for mobile it also provides Telerik back end services (formerly “everlive”), Telerik analytics and Telerik mobile testing services. download the Telerik app builder extension for visual studio using the below link. http://www.telerik.com/appbuilder/visual-studio-extension

• VSNoMAD

VSNoMad plugin for visual studio which provided by RedGate that is used to create cross platform application using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. Nomad support for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Also nomad support default set of Phonegap plugins. Nomad manage to create android,iOS and windows build files in easy manner just uploading the files into server. It provides set of emulator using chrome extension but in nomad debugging process in little problematic. Download the vsnomad visual studio plugin using the below link. http://vsnomad.com/download.html