Tag : Visual Studio for Mac

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.7 is now available

Jon GallowayAugust 5, 2020Aug 5, 202008/5/20

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 NahousMay 19, 2020May 19, 202005/19/20

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 GallowayMay 13, 2020May 13, 202005/13/20

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-HashimiApril 22, 2020Apr 22, 202004/22/20

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...

Meet Visual Studio for Mac’s New Integrated Terminal!

Jon GallowayApril 8, 2020Apr 8, 202004/8/20

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

Dominic NahousMarch 23, 2020Mar 23, 202003/23/20

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.

Visual Studio for Mac: Become a Productivity Pro

Cody BeyerMarch 18, 2020Mar 18, 202003/18/20

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 ...

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

Jon GallowayFebruary 20, 2020Feb 20, 202002/20/20

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

Abdullah HamedFebruary 17, 2020Feb 17, 202002/17/20

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

Creating .NET Core global tools on macOS

Sayed-Ibrahim-HashimiFebruary 12, 2020Feb 12, 202002/12/20

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 ...

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