Visual Studio 2019 for Mac

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 is now available

Jon Galloway June 2, 2021 Jun 2, 2021 06/2/21

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 ...

Developing on a M1 Mac with Visual Studio for Mac

Aaron LaBeau May 19, 2021 May 19, 2021 05/19/21

In this guest blog post, Aaron LaBeau shares his experiences with developing applications using Visual Studio for Mac on an M1 Mac Mini, and passes along some top tips to get you started.

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.9 is now available

Jon Galloway March 3, 2021 Mar 3, 2021 03/3/21

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] Visual Studio for Mac Helps You Write Tests

benday January 13, 2021 Jan 13, 2021 01/13/21

You’re writing tests for your code, right? No? Just say ‘yes’. It’ll make this blog post go a lot easier. So anyway, I’m happy to hear that you’re writing tests for all your code. Whether you’re following the “test first” / Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach or whether you’re just writing some unit tests or integration ...

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

Jon Galloway November 25, 2020 Nov 25, 2020 11/25/20

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

Jon Galloway November 10, 2020 Nov 10, 2020 11/10/20

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

Jon Galloway August 5, 2020 Aug 5, 2020 08/5/20

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 ...

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.6 is now available

Dominic Nahous May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.6 is available today and includes an integrated terminal, support for Blazor WebAssembly, updated identity libraries, and support for building and running gRPC projects. Are you ready for the latest version of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac? If so, version 8.6 is available for you to download today! With...

Building a Progressive Web App with Blazor

Jon Galloway May 13, 2020 May 13, 2020 05/13/20

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.

Creating and Packaging a .NET Standard library

Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi April 22, 2020 Apr 22, 2020 04/22/20

In this post we will cover how you can create a .NET Standard library and then share that with other developers via NuGet. We will be demonstrating this with Visual Studio for Mac, but you can also follow along with Visual Studio, or Visual Studio Code when using the dotnet CLI. If you are on macOS, and haven’t already download Visual Studio...

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