title: couldn't install xamarin in visual studio express 2013
body: <p>I'm running Windows 7 professional, installed <code>Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013</code>. Now, I got to work with development of android applications in <code>c#</code> and I want to do it in <code>Visual studio Express edition</code>. I found <code>Xamarin</code> would integrate android and iOS application development with c# and Visual Studio. I installed <code>xamarin for visual studio</code> <a href="http://xamarin.com/visual-studio" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> </p>
  
  <p>I tried to integrate Xamarin in Visual Studio, but couldn't succeed with it.</p>
  
  <p>I followed the developer.Xamarin instructions, couldn't find <code>xamarin</code> panel in <code>tools -&gt; options</code> (in the BUILD host settings).</p>
  
  <p>Instructions <a href="http://blog.fire-development.com/2013/07/01/install-xamarin-in-vs-2013-preview-1/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>, shows the integration of xamarin through migration from visual studio 12 to visual studio 13. I think it's out of my point from my concern. </p>
  
  <p>I find some of the questions in <code>stackoverflow</code> are quite similar, though they were marked as answered but I'm sure there might be some other best solutions. </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20594118/install-xamarin-for-visual-studio-2013-express">monotouch</a>, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16560681/xamarin-ide-and-visualstudio-for-windows-mvvmcross?rq=1">visual studio - Xamarin IDE</a> are some of the posts that I found uninformative. I couldn't get any conclusion from those posts. I'm truly disappointed with the posts(spent lot of time, but my issue was not solved). Any help is really appreciated. </p>