Jordan Matthiesen

Achievement Unlocked: Visual Studio for Mac ASP.NET Core Challenge Completed

December 17th, 2019

Last month, we kicked-off a challenge for our developer community to build a solution using ASP.NET Core and the new .NET Core features in Visual Studio for Mac. In this post, we share the results, and complete the challenge.

Join the Visual Studio for Mac ASP.NET Core Challenge

November 5th, 2019

We’d like to invite you to take part in a new community challenge in which you can interact directly with our team to improve Visual Studio for Mac, explore some great looking ASP.NET Core samples, and earn prizes!

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3

September 23rd, 2019

Today, we’re releasing version 8.3 of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac - our .NET IDE, built natively for macOS. This release is predominantly driven by your feedback: delivering a faster and more reliable ASP.NET Core web developer experience, reducing the time between coding and testing Xamarin UI changes, and including a few...

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3 Preview 3, now available

September 4th, 2019

Visual Studio for Mac 2019 v8.3 Preview 3 is now available, with new web editors, solution-level NuGet package management, and multi-targeting support.

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview 3

March 5th, 2019

This blog post is all about the cool new features, bug fixes and performance improvements we've added to the latest release (Preview 3) of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac. Some of the highlights include but are not limited to the following: launching multiple IDE instances, faster Xamarin Android developer tools, and a new C# editor. Read on to learn more.

Create great looking, fast, mobile apps using JavaScript, Angular 2, and Ionic 2

December 20th, 2016

In a recent Visual Studio Toolbox episode, I highlighted some new Ionic 2 templates for use with the Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO). These new Ionic 2 RC templates are now available for you to try out and in this post I’ll talk you through what’s new. > Download Ionic 2 templates on the Visual Studio Extension ...

What’s new for iOS and Android developers using JavaScript?

November 17th, 2016

With the release of Visual Studio 2017 RC this week, we’re introducing you to the latest and greatest release of the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO). In this release, we’re tackling the big problems – the issues we know you face every day as mobile developers. They fall into two major themes: Fast, reliable ...

Answers to your top TACO questions

October 20th, 2016

Last month I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion at the Microsoft Ignite conference where we discussed mobile app development. I spoke about Visual Studio’s Tools for Apache Cordova (a.k.a. “TACO” for short) side-by-side with James Montemagno of Xamarin fame, Ankit Asthana from the Visual Studio C++ team, and Daniel ...

Create high quality mobile apps with Ionic & Visual Studio

August 3rd, 2016

Are you a web developer building mobile applications today? Are you considering joining the ranks of web developers moving beyond the mobile web to mobile app development? If so, then we have a treat for you – a new set of Visual Studio templates, building on top of the Apache Cordova platform, Ionic UI framework, and using the TypeScript ...