Visual Studio for Mac releases. All releases Preview Visual Studio for Mac Preview 7.1 Visual Studio for Mac 7.1 7.2 Visual Studio for Mac 7.2 Preview. Visual Studio Code is an integrated development environment (IDE) that runs on Mac — as well as Linux and Windows (for some reason). But Visual Studio it is not. I gave it a good three hours of testing: the install was easy, until I needed to update Mono. And opening the first project from GitHub was easy as well.
At its Microsoft Connect(); 2018 virtual event today, Microsoft announced the initial public preview of Visual Studio 2019 — you can download it now for Windows and Mac. Separately, .NET Core 2.2 has hit general availability, and .NET Core 3.0 Preview 1 is also available today.
Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2017 in March 2017 and Visual Studio 2017 for Mac in May 2017 and then released seven subsequent updates to further improve their performance. That was the “most popular Visual Studio release ever,” but in June the company announced Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac.
As before, Visual Studio 2019 previews will install side by side with Visual Studio 2017, which is great for trying out new functionality without messing with your production workflow. Visual Studio 2019 also won’t require a major operating system upgrade, Microsoft promised. Visual Studio 2017 worked on Windows Server 2012 R2 (and later), Windows 7 (and later), and Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11 (and later).
New features
Visual Studio 2019 brings numerous productivity improvements, enhanced collaboration, and faster tooling, Microsoft promised today. The initial public preview includes a new start window experience to get developers into their code faster, increased coding space, a new search experience, more refactoring capabilities, smarter debugging, AI-powered assistance with IntelliCode, and built-in access to Visual Studio Live Share.
The new start window on launch is designed to work better with today’s Git repositories, including local repos, Git repos on GitHub, and Azure Repos. Git aside, you can still open a project or a solution or create a new one of either.
Visual Studio’s UI and UX have also received subtle changes, such as a new product icon, a cleaner blue theme, and a more compact title and menu bar. There’s also a new search experience that replaces the Quick Launch box. It lets you find settings and commands and install options, and it even supports fuzzy string searching.
Visual Studio 2019 improves the code maintainability and consistency experiences with new refactoring capabilities — such as changing for-loops to LINQ queries and converting tuples to named-structs. There’s also a new document health indicator and code clean-up functionality.
As for debugging, stepping performance is improved and search capabilities have been added to the Autos, Locals, and Watch windows. You can also expect improvements to the Snapshot Debugger to target Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS), and better performance when debugging large C++ projects, thanks to an out-of-process 64-bit debugger.
IntelliCode and Live Share
At its Build 2018 developers conference in May, Microsoft previewed IntelliCode and Live Share. The former uses AI to offer intelligent suggestions that improve code quality and productivity, and the latter lets developers collaborate in real time with team members who can edit and debug directly from Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
Visual Studio IntelliCode is getting custom models and expanded language support. Custom models further improve the AI-enhanced IntelliSense, giving developers personalized recommendations based on the patterns and libraries used in their code, on top of the analysis made on thousands of open source repos. Visual Studio developers now get IntelliCode for XAML and C++ code, in addition to C#. Visual Studio Code developers can use IntelliCode when developing JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Java.
The public preview of Visual Studio Live Share, which is available as an extension for Visual Studio Code, is getting new features to help developers collaborate in real time, including sharing desktop apps, source control diffs, and code commenting. It’s also easier to start a session and view who you’re working with in a dedicated space at the top right of the user interface. Since Live Share is installed alongside the IDE by default, the features are available in Visual Studio 2019.
Speaking of which, Microsoft did not provide a timeframe for Visual Studio 2019’s release. As its name implies, we can expect it to arrive next year, possibly at Build 2019.
.NET Core 2.2 and .NET Core 3.0 Preview 1
Microsoft today released .NET Core 2.2 with diagnostic improvements to the runtime, support for ARM32 for Windows, and Azure Active Directory for SQL Client. Other improvements include enabling tiered compilation by default, as well as new features in the ASP.NET Core web stack, such as hosting model improvements for IIS; Web API improvements, including API security; template updates for Bootstrap 4 and Angular 6; and HealthCheck upgrades. .NET Core 2.2 also offers data stack enhancements, Entity Framework Core, and support for spatial extensions in SQL Server and SQLite. For more details, check out the release notes.
Announced at Microsoft’s Build 2018 developer conference in May, .NET Core 3.0 is the next generation of the .NET Core platform. It promises significant updates to web, cloud, IoT, AI/ML, and Windows desktop workloads.
Microsoft today launched .NET Core 3 Preview 1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can develop .NET Core 3 applications with Visual Studio 2017 15.9, Visual Studio for Mac, and Visual Studio Code.
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.NET Core 3.0 adds support for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Forms (which today were open-sourced), bringing Windows desktop development to .NET Core. It enables more flexible deployment with side-by-side and self-contained EXE and better performance. For more details, check out the release notes.
Microsoft has a bunch of important improvements slated for its Visual Studio 2019 for Mac whenever it is released, and the company has laid out a detailed roadmap to advise users of what is to come. Visual Studio 2017 for Mac was released in 2017 and has since received a wide range of new features, including support for NET Core 2; richer language services for editing JavaScript, TypeScript and Razor pages; Azure Functions; and the ability to deploy and debug.NET Core apps inside Docker containers. But that was just the, wrote Unni Ravindranathan, principal program manager and lead of the Visual Studio for Mac program management team, in a recent post on The Visual Studio Blog. Further reading.
'Our aspiration with Visual Studio for Mac is to bring the Visual Studio experiences that developers have come to know and love on Windows to the MacOS and to provide an excellent IDE experience for all.NET cross-platform developers,' he wrote. When Visual Studio 2017 for Mac was released, it was an IDE primarily focused on mobile application development using Xamarin, wrote Ravindranathan. Now that version has been refined and expanded to also include support for all major.NET cross-platform workloads including Xamarin, Unity and.NET Core. There have been other improvements as well, but the company is now ready to start talking about the next version, Visual Studio 2019 for Mac, even as it continues to plan updates for the 2017 version through early 2019, he wrote. The plans for Visual Studio 2019 for Mac are laid out in a that describes many of the feedback themes that were raised by users who asked for certain features, improvements and capabilities in an upcoming version. 'Improving the typing performance and reliability is our single biggest focus area for Visual Studio 2019 for Mac,' wrote Ravindranathan.
'We plan to replace most of the internals of the Visual Studio for Mac editor with those from Visual Studio. Combined with the work to improve our integration of various language services, our aspiration is to bring similar levels of editor productivity from Visual Studio to Visual Studio for Mac.' At the same time, Microsoft will work to address a from users to add Right-To-Left (RTL) support to the application's built-in editor to enable right-to-left languages to display text correctly on a screen, he wrote. Also highly requested by Mac users has been support for Team Foundation Server, with both Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) and Git as the source control mechanisms, he wrote. 'While we currently have an extension available for Visual Studio 2017 for Mac that adds support for TFVC, we will integrate it into the core of the source control experience in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac.'
For users seeking increased productivity, the C# editor in Visual Studio for Mac will be built on top of the same Roslyn back end used by Visual Studio on Windows, which will bring many performance improvements, he wrote. 'In the Visual Studio 2019 for Mac release, we'll also dramatically reduce the time it takes you to connect to your source code and begin working with it in the product, by introducing a streamlined 'open from version control' dialog with a brand-new Git-focused workflow.'
Among the updates still to come for the existing Visual Studio 2017 for Mac application are support for.NET Core 2.2 and the ability to publish ASP.NET Core projects to a folder. Support for Azure Functions 2.0 will also be added, as well as an update to the New Functions Project dialog to support updating to the latest version of Azure Functions tooling and templates. In Visual Studio 2019 for Mac, support for.NET Core 3.0 will be added when it becomes available in 2019, as well as additional ASP.NET Core templates and template options and improved Azure publishing options.
Also to come are improvements to the application's language services supporting ASP.NET Core development including Razor, JavaScript and TypeScript. Xamarin support updates will include continuing improvements for Android build performance and improvements in the reliability of deploying iOS and Android apps, including making it easier to acquire Android emulators from within the Visual Studio for Mac IDE. Updates will also come to the Xamarin.Forms Previewer and the Xamarin.Android Designer as well as the XAML language service for Xamarin Forms, wrote Ravindranathan.
'By supporting installation of both versions of the product side-by-side, we'll make it easy for you to try out the Visual Studio 2019 for Mac preview releases while we are still also working on the stable Visual Studio 2017 for Mac releases in parallel,' he wrote. A preview version is not yet ready but will be announced in the future. Microsoft is continuing to accept feedback from users on the existing product through the website.