Jordan Matthiesen

Senior Program Manager, Visual Studio for Mac

Jordan is a senior program manager working on Visual Studio for Mac. When not at his computer creating tools for developers, you'll find him hanging out with his family playing guitar or working in the garden.

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Visual Studio for Mac 17.3 Preview 2 is now available

June 14th, 2022
Today we release Visual Studio for Mac v17.3 Preview 2; focused on addressing top customer feedback from the Visual Studio for Mac v17.0 release. If you’re already using the Visual Studio for Mac Preview release, use the Visual Studio > Check for Updates… menu to update. If you aren’t using it yet, download it now: This blog ...

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac is now available

May 23rd, 2022
Today, I’m thrilled to share the news of the general availability (GA) release of Visual Studio 2022 for Mac v17.0 and that it’s available to download now. This is the fastest Visual Studio for Mac version yet with an all new native macOS UI, fully running on .NET 6, and optimized for Apple Silicon (ARM64) processors. (image) ...

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Release Candidate 2

May 11th, 2022
Visual Studio 2022 for Mac 17.0 Release Candidate 2 is now available! In this release, we’ve focused on addressing top reported issues from the first release candidate. This work builds on top of earlier previews where we’ve moved the UI of the IDE to fully native macOS UI and migrated the IDE to run on top of .NET 6 (enabling native ...

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Release Candidate

April 26th, 2022
On behalf of our whole team, I’m beyond excited to announce that the Visual Studio 2022 for Mac 17.0 Release Candidate (RC) is ready for you to download now and includes a go-live license that allows you to develop in production environments. A faster, more fluid IDE for everyone This release swaps out the front-end UI of the IDE ...

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 9

April 12th, 2022
Visual Studio 2022 for Mac 17.0 Preview 9 is now available! In this release, the focus is on addressing top reported issues from prior preview releases. This work builds on top of earlier previews where we’ve moved the UI of the IDE to fully native macOS UI and migrated the IDE to run on top of .NET 6 (enabling native support of Apple’s M1...

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 8

March 31st, 2022
Visual Studio 2022 for Mac 17.0 Preview 8 is now available! In this release, the focus is on addressing top reported issues from prior preview releases and driving forward to a high-quality GA (General Availability) release.

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 7

March 15th, 2022
Visual Studio 2022 for Mac 17.0 Preview 7 is here and continues our focus on addressing top issues and driving forward to a high-quality GA (general availability) release. In addition to many fixes, this release brings back Xamarin mobile tooling as a supported experience and introduces Azure Functions V4 tooling which supports running on .NET

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 6

February 16th, 2022
It’s February, and time for another Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview release! Today we’re sharing Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 6, which focuses on addressing top issues from the January 25th Preview 5 release as well as continuing the move of the IDE to native macOS UI. Preview 5 was a huge release for the product, debuting the IDE...

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 5

January 25th, 2022
Today, we released Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 5, marking the first Visual Studio for Mac release running on .NET 6 and natively on Apple’s M1 (ARM-based) processor. This change has resulted in some immediate performance wins and lays the foundation for the team to innovate more rapidly in the future.

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 4

December 15th, 2021
Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 4 release is here, and continues our move of the IDE to fully native macOS UI, fixes many top issues, and introduces new experiences for laying out your windows and searching your source. You can read all about the latest changes in the release notes. Get the latest release using the Visual Studio > ...