Jon Galloway

Principal Program Manager, .NET Community Team

Jon is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET Community team, working on .NET and supporting .NET live streams and virtual events. He's the author of several programming books, tutorials and video courses on .NET development.

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Visual Studio for Mac 17.3 is now available

August 9th, 2022
Today we released Visual Studio for Mac v17.3. This release includes User Secrets support, several new code fixes, Apple Developer Accounts, adds Task Window and Regular Expressions dialog implemented in native UI, and fixes for top reported user issues. We're also releasing our first preview of Visual Studio for Mac 17.4, with preview support...

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 is now available

June 2nd, 2021
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 is available today! This release includes support for .NET 6 Preview 4, updated dialogs written using native macOS Cocoa, and performance improvements for solution load and project build. Visual Studio for Mac version 8.10 is available for you to download today. .NET 6 Preview 4 Support Visual ...

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.9 is now available

March 3rd, 2021
We're excited to announce that Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.9 is available for you to download today. This release includes support for .NET 6 Preview 1, testing support for Unity applications, a preview of a new Quick Actions and Refactorings dialog, solution filter (.slnf file) support, and a new XML editor.

[Guest post] Our Head First C# Contest Got Some Truly Creative Entries

December 16th, 2020
We just completed our Head First C# book contest! This blog post shows off some of the more creative solutions to the code challenge, and tells you how you can still get the first four chapters of the book for free.

[Guest post] Learn C# with Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, and Unity (and win a free book!)

November 25th, 2020
In this guest post, Andrew Stellman explains his approach to teaching C# with Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac by emphasizing exploration, fun, and games. We're announcing a fun coding challenge for beginners, with a chance to win a copy of the new edition of Head First C# book.

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.8 is now available

November 10th, 2020
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.8 is available today! We’ve added support for developing applications with .NET 5 and debugging Blazor WebAssembly applications and included several improvements for Xamarin developers, including Xamarin.Forms 5.0 Preview support.

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.7 is now available

August 5th, 2020
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.7 is available today and includes support for gRPC / OpenAPI client generation and improved unit testing integration. Additionally, it includes several improvements for Xamarin developers, including Xamarin.Forms 4.8 Support. This release also includes initial support for macOS Big Sur, with the exception ...

Building a Progressive Web App with Blazor

May 13th, 2020
A Progressive Web Application (PWA) is a Single Page Application (SPA) that uses modern browser APIs and capabilities to behave like a desktop app. Blazor WebAssembly (now in preview) includes support for Progressive Web Applications. This blog post walks you through building a basic Blazor PWA application.

Meet Visual Studio for Mac’s New Integrated Terminal!

April 8th, 2020
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview now includes an integrated terminal, with support for themes, search, multiple instances, and integration with the macOS terminal history. Read about the new features and find out how to try it out today!

Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event recap

March 17th, 2020
We had a great time at the Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event on February 24th! All the videos, slides, and links to demo code are available for you to watch, use for your own virtual events, blog posts, etc. in this repo. In case you couldn’t watch it then, here’s a session recap and links to the on-demand videos: Keynote: A ...