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Meet Visual Studio for Mac’s New Integrated Terminal!

April 8, 2020 Apr 8, 2020 04/8/20

Jon Galloway

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview now includes an integrated terminal, with support for themes, search, multiple instances, and integration with the macOS terminal history. Read about the new features and find out how to try it out today!

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 is now available

March 23, 2020 Mar 23, 2020 03/23/20

Dominic Nahous

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 is available today and includes ASP.NET Core authentication templates, support for Azure Functions 3.0, and improvements to the overall experience for those using assistive technologies.

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

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

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

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.

Creating .NET Core global tools on macOS

February 12, 2020 Feb 12, 2020 02/12/20

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 ...

Accessibility Improvements in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac

February 10, 2020 Feb 10, 2020 02/10/20

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.

Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event speakers and sessions

February 5, 2020 Feb 5, 2020 02/5/20

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.

Getting Started with Blazor Server Apps in Visual Studio for Mac

January 22, 2020 Jan 22, 2020 01/22/20

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

In Visual Studio 2019 for Mac v8.4 one of the big things that we added support for is developing Blazor Server Applications. In this post I’ll show you how you can get started building new Blazor Server applications with Visual Studio for Mac. Blazor lets you build interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript. Blazor apps are composed ...

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 is now available

January 8, 2020 Jan 8, 2020 01/8/20

Dominic Nahous

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 is now available. It brings enhancements to the ASP.NET Core developer experience including Blazor, Scaffolding, and .NET Core 3.1 support in addition to accessibility improvements.

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 ...

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