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Feb 20, 2020
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Reminder: Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event on Feb 24

Jon Galloway

The Visual Studio for Mac Refresh(); event is just a few days away, starting on Monday, February 24, at 9 AM. We’ve got a great day of content planned. Make sure to “save the date” so you don’t forget over the weekend! https://aka.ms/vs4mac-event

Feb 17, 2020
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Catch up with Visual Studio Tools for Unity on Mac

Abdullah Hamed

Whats new in Visual Studio Tools for Unity since we launched Visual Studio for Mac.

Feb 13, 2020
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Decompilation of C# code made easy with Visual Studio

Mark Downie

Have you ever experienced an exception occurring in a 3rd party .NET assembly but had no source code to figure out why? You can now use Visual Studio to decompile managed code even if you don't have the symbols, allowing you to look at code, inspect variables and set breakpoints.

Feb 12, 2020
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Creating .NET Core global tools on macOS

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

One of the really cool aspects about .NET Core is the support for global tools. You can use global tools to simplify common tasks during your development workflow. For example, you can create tools to minify image assets, simplify working with source control, or perform any other task that you can automate with the command line. After developing your tool, you can distribute it on NuGet.org, or any other NuGet repository, to share the tool with others. Since .NET Core is cross platform, your global tools will also work cross platform, assuming your code doesn’t contain any platform specific code. You can find exi...

Feb 11, 2020
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Making our Unity Analyzers Open-Source 

Jb Evain

Making our Unity Analyzers in visual studio Open-Source 

Feb 10, 2020
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Accessibility Improvements in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac

Václav Vančura

The release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4.4, includes numerous developments in the color representation of icons, and to warning and error status messages.

Feb 5, 2020
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Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event speakers and sessions

Jon Galloway

Join this free, virtual event on Feb 24th to find out how to make mobile, web, and games development easy and productive on your Mac. Today we're announcing speakers and our session agenda for the event.

Jan 30, 2020
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What’s New in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 for C++, Xamarin, and Azure Tooling Experiences

Ulzii Luvsanbat [MSFT]

Last week, Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 was released, bringing many new features and improvements for developers in Visual Studio to help you build better software faster. Please read some highlights of new features and improved developer experiences in this page.

Jan 29, 2020
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Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 Preview 2 is available

Dominic Nahous

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.5 Preview 2 is available today and adds auth templates for ASP.NET Core projects, Xamarin enhancements, and UI improvements.