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Introducing solution-level NuGet Package Management in Visual Studio for Mac

October 3, 2019 Oct 3, 2019 10/3/19
Anand Gaurav
A new solution-level NuGet Package Manager is one of the exciting new features of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3. We've made improvements to help you discover packages more easily. This includes an improved experience while searching for new packages, gaining an understanding of what packages are already installed in your project, and

Visual Studio for Mac: Top Features of the New Editor

October 1, 2019 Oct 1, 2019 10/1/19
Cody Beyer
Over the past year, the Visual Studio for Mac team updated the editors within the IDE to be faster, more fluent and more productive. We did this by building a macOS-native editor interface on top of the same editor backend as Visual Studio on Windows. In version 8.1 we introduced the new C# editor. This was followed by the new XAML editor in 8...

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19
Jordan Matthiesen
Today, we’re releasing version 8.3 of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac - our .NET IDE, built natively for macOS. This release is predominantly driven by your feedback: delivering a faster and more reliable ASP.NET Core web developer experience, reducing the time between coding and testing Xamarin UI changes, and including a few...

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.2 is now available (and a Preview for 8.3)

July 24, 2019 Jul 24, 2019 07/24/19
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
Today we are announcing the release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.2, as well as Preview 1 of version 8.3. We have a lot of new features and updates in both releases that we’d like to share with you! Some of these include the new C#, XAML and AXML editors, support for .NET Core 3.0 Preview and launchsettings.json and many more.

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.1 Preview 1

May 6, 2019 May 6, 2019 05/6/19
Cody Beyer
Today, we are proud to announce the next major update for Visual Studio for Mac: Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.1 Preview. In this update, we are offering our new C# editor as the default experience in addition to introducing support for .NET Core 3 Preview and new project templates. We’ve also been working to improve ...

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac is now available

April 2, 2019 Apr 2, 2019 04/2/19
Unni Ravindranathan
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac – the next major version of our .NET IDE on the Mac. This release is now available as an update in the Stable channel for existing Visual Studio for Mac users, and new users can download and install it today as well. Visual Studio 2019 for Mac focuses on improving the core of the IDE, setting a foundation for us to bring new capabilities to you more rapidly with future updates.