Tag : Visual Studio for Mac

[Guest Post] Visual Studio for Mac Helps You Write Tests

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

benday

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] Our Head First C# Contest Got Some Truly Creative Entries

December 16, 2020 Dec 16, 2020 12/16/20

Jon Galloway

We just completed our Head First C# book contest! This blog post shows off some of the more creative solutions to the code challenge, and tells you how you can still get the first four chapters of the book for free.

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

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

Jon Galloway

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

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 ...

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.6 is now available

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20

Dominic Nahous

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

May 13, 2020 May 13, 2020 05/13/20

Jon Galloway

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

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...

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.

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