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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...

Visual Studio for Mac: Become a Productivity Pro

March 18, 2020 Mar 18, 2020 03/18/20
Cody Beyer
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 ...