New partnership with Microsoft aims to expand app availability on Tizen

The first preview supports mobile application development with device emulators and an extension to Visual Studio with full IntelliSense and debugging capabilities. Support for Smart TVs, wearables, and other IoT devices will be added in future releases.
What's all this mean though? With Samsung now officially joining the Microsoft .NET community, developers will now be able to use Microsoft's Visual Studio to create apps for Tizen in the C# language. Samsung says that more than 50 million gadgets are currently powered by the Tizen OS, and with the expansion to allow developers to create apps for the platform with a system that they're comfortable with and native to, we should start seeing more and more apps make their way to Samsung's baby in the near future.
We recently held a poll to see what our readers though about Tizen, and almost half of the results came back with people saying that Samsung should continue to work on it and make it better. A move like this certainly is a step in that direction to improve the quality of the OS, and with .NET support being released and shipped on Tizen-powered devices starting in 2017, we won't have to wait too much longer to start seeing the results of this partnership.
source: Samsung via Android Authority