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Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.10 is now available

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

Jon Galloway

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

May 19, 2021 May 19, 2021 05/19/21

Aaron LaBeau

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

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

Jon Galloway

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.

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.8 is now available

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

Jon Galloway

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

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

Jon Galloway

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 ...

Creating and Packaging a .NET Standard library

April 22, 2020 Apr 22, 2020 04/22/20

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

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...