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Visual Studio for Mac 17.5 is now available

February 21, 2023 Feb 21, 2023 02/21/23
Iain Holmes
We are pleased to announce the release of Visual Studio for Mac 17.5. Along with the usual incremental improvements, we’ve focused on improving the Git experience for this release. Read along as we look at these improvements and the other big changes made. As always, if you want to know all the changes made during this release, you can check...

Visual Studio for Mac 17.4 is now available

November 8, 2022 Nov 8, 2022 11/8/22
Iain Holmes
Visual Studio for Mac v17.4 is available today! This release includes improvements to the editor like the new Editing State margin and the return of the Class pad, and fixes for issues that users have reported. We’re also releasing our first preview of Visual Studio for Mac 17.5 for people to see what we’ve got planned.  To update now...

Visual Studio for Mac 17.4 Preview 2.1 is now available

September 27, 2022 Sep 27, 2022 09/27/22
Iain Holmes
We are pleased to announce the second preview release of Visual Studio for Mac 17.4. This release has been focused on addressing feedback from customers and on improving the overall experience. If you are already using the Visual Studio for Mac Preview release, use the Visual Studio > Check for Updates… menu to update. If you aren't using...

Visual Studio for Mac 17.3 Preview 2 is now available

June 14, 2022 Jun 14, 2022 06/14/22
Jordan Matthiesen
Today we release Visual Studio for Mac v17.3 Preview 2; focused on addressing top customer feedback from the Visual Studio for Mac v17.0 release. If you’re already using the Visual Studio for Mac Preview release, use the Visual Studio > Check for Updates… menu to update. If you aren’t using it yet, download it now: This blog ...

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac is now available

May 23, 2022 May 23, 2022 05/23/22
Jordan Matthiesen
Today, I’m thrilled to share the news of the general availability (GA) release of Visual Studio 2022 for Mac v17.0 and that it’s available to download now. This is the fastest Visual Studio for Mac version yet with an all new native macOS UI, fully running on .NET 6, and optimized for Apple Silicon (ARM64) processors. Today, we...

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Release Candidate 2

May 11, 2022 May 11, 2022 05/11/22
Jordan Matthiesen
Visual Studio 2022 for Mac 17.0 Release Candidate 2 is now available! In this release, we’ve focused on addressing top reported issues from the first release candidate. This work builds on top of earlier previews where we’ve moved the UI of the IDE to fully native macOS UI and migrated the IDE to run on top of .NET 6 (enabling native ...

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Release Candidate

April 26, 2022 Apr 26, 2022 04/26/22
authorsJordan Matthiesen, Dominic Nahous
On behalf of our whole team, I’m beyond excited to announce that the Visual Studio 2022 for Mac 17.0 Release Candidate (RC) is ready for you to download now and includes a go-live license that allows you to develop in production environments. A faster, more fluid IDE for everyone This release swaps out the front-end UI of the IDE ...

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 9

April 12, 2022 Apr 12, 2022 04/12/22
Jordan Matthiesen
Visual Studio 2022 for Mac 17.0 Preview 9 is now available! In this release, the focus is on addressing top reported issues from prior preview releases. This work builds on top of earlier previews where we’ve moved the UI of the IDE to fully native macOS UI and migrated the IDE to run on top of .NET 6 (enabling native support of Apple’s M1...