Microsoft recently launched Visual Studio for Mac and the stable version is now available for download. After the first preview of Visual Studio which arrived in November for the macOS, Microsoft, during the Build event, announced the full version of Visual Studio. Like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, the C# support in Visual Studio for Mac is powered by the open source Roslyn Compiler Platform. If you have a Mac I encourage you to download the preview from VisualStudio.com, give it a spin, and let us know how you like it.

Welcome to the October 2018 release of Visual Studio Code. There are a number of significant updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include: Multiline search - Search across files with regex multiline expressions. File icons in IntelliSense - Quickly distinguish file types in IntelliSense. Better macOS support - Full screen mode control and Mojave Dark Mode support.

Collapsible stack frames - Collapse uninteresting stack frames to clearly see your code. Improved Loaded Scripts view - Displays related resources such as original source files.

Updated extension samples - Uniform style and structure, README, and API usage. CI recipe for extensions - Azure Pipelines build recipe for extensions. Preview: List All References - List All References view shows reference search results.

Last month, the release of: a full-featured development environment to help developers on the Mac create apps, games, and services for mobile, cloud, and web. It’s natively designed for macOS, so both the design – from the toolbar to the file dialogs – and the developer workflow should feel right at home to Mac users. It is also a best-in-class advanced C# code editor – with IntelliSense and a refactoring experience that includes a preview of the proposed code changes. Mobile and web developers working on the Mac will appreciate the additional features that Visual Studio for Mac provides C# developers, and developers that have used Visual Studio on Windows will feel instantly at home with the familiar solution explorer and menu options. Visual Studio for Mac features first-class support for NuGet – the.NET package manager – which provides access to thousands of prepackaged code libraries; you can also code in F#, and yes, C# 7 features are fully supported! Cross-platform capabilities don’t end there – Visual Studio for Mac shares the same solution format as its Windows counterpart.

Teams with developers on both Mac and Windows can open and work on the same projects, sharing code across platforms and apps. Built-in version control makes it easy to work with small or large teams, on local and remote Git repositories (including GitHub and BitBucket). Mobile Development Visual Studio for Mac has a heritage in Xamarin Studio, and thus supports cross-platform application development for iOS, Android, and macOS with. By installing the iOS and Android SDKs, you can build cross-platform mobile apps using C#, with complete access to the underlying native APIs (including tvOS and watchOS).

It includes drag-and-drop user interface designers for both iOS and Android, giving you the ability to interactively create native iOS Storyboards and Android XML layouts. Or, if you prefer, you can use Xamarin.Forms XAML to create a re-usable cross-platform user-interface (with a real-time preview option).

Whichever option you end up choosing, apps using Xamarin always render native controls and run at native speed. To make getting started with mobile development easy – we also announced the preview of, enabling you to start experimenting in seconds. Just pair the app on your phone with Visual Studio for Mac using a QR code and instantly see your app running and you can make live edits along the way. When you want to build complete apps, you can use the simulators and emulators available or test on real phones.

Visual Studio for Mac can even help you build and deploy your finished apps to the App Store and Google Play–the archive for publishing build option will guide you through the code-signing and uploading process. How to create a bootable usb on mac. Web and Cloud Visual Studio for Mac isn’t just for mobile, however. The web editing experience on Visual Studio for Mac comes directly from code ported from Visual Studio (on Windows).