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Visual Studio for Mac: Become a Productivity Pro

March 18, 2020 Mar 18, 2020 03/18/20

Cody Beyer

Despite continued advancement and innovation in the IDE space, the bottom line is that IDEs are a productivity tool. As a software developer, the value of an IDE is directly related to how much using the tool increases your productivity. Subsequently, when we make decisions about how to improve Visual Studio for Mac, your productivity is ...

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 is now available

March 16, 2020 Mar 16, 2020 03/16/20

Jacqueline Widdis

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 and 16.6 Preview 1 are available today. Included in this release are updates in .NET Productivity, .NET Mobile development, C++, and debugging.

Catch up with Visual Studio Tools for Unity on Mac

February 17, 2020 Feb 17, 2020 02/17/20

Abdullah Hamed

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

Decompilation of C# code made easy with Visual Studio

February 13, 2020 Feb 13, 2020 02/13/20

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.

Making our Unity Analyzers Open-Source

February 11, 2020 Feb 11, 2020 02/11/20

Jb Evain

Making our Unity Analyzers in visual studio Open-Source

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 4 is now available

December 11, 2019 Dec 11, 2019 12/11/19

Dominic Nahous

Today, we released Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 4. This preview version of Visual Studio for Mac brings support for the latest stable version of .NET Core, Scaffolding support for ASP.NET Core projects, and additional improvements to overall product accessibility. Developers using Xamarin Pair to Mac should also look at the ...

Pinnable Properties: Debug & Display Managed Objects YOUR Way

December 5, 2019 Dec 5, 2019 12/5/19

Leslie Richardson

Want to quickly identify objects by more than just their type while debugging? You can now pin object properties to the top of your debugger displays using the new Pinnable Properties tool in Visual Studio 2019 16.4!

‘Tis the Season for the Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 Release

December 3, 2019 Dec 3, 2019 12/3/19

Jacqueline Widdis

Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 is available today. Highlights of the release include: better GitHub integration, Vertical Tabs, Container Tools, Xamarin Hot Reload, C++ Tooling, .NET Productivity, Pinnable Property Tabs, and much more.

Visual Studio for Mac: Top Features of the New Editor

October 1, 2019 Oct 1, 2019 10/1/19

Cody Beyer

Over the past year, the Visual Studio for Mac team updated the editors within the IDE to be faster, more fluent and more productive. We did this by building a macOS-native editor interface on top of the same editor backend as Visual Studio on Windows. In version 8.1 we introduced the new C# editor. This was followed by the new XAML editor in 8...

Make games with Visual Studio for Mac and Unity

August 21, 2019 Aug 21, 2019 08/21/19

John Miller

Making games can be rewarding and a lot of fun. If you’d like to learn more about game development follow along by making your first game using Visual Studio for Mac, Unity, and C#.

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