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<\/a>! With this release, we\u2019ve continued to polish the existing experience, paying close attention to many of the problem areas mentioned by our users. You\u2019ll also find some significant improvements, especially if you\u2019re a web or mobile developer.<\/p>\n We\u2019re really excited about the addition of a new integrated terminal to Visual Studio for Mac. The integrated terminal will help you minimize context switching and boost your productivity. This is a full featured terminal with rich IDE and macOS integration, including:<\/p>\n Read more about the terminal in our previous blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Visual Studio for Mac 8.6 also now includes templates for Blazor WebAssembly applications, including support for building Progressive Web Apps.<\/p>\n If you\u2019d like to learn more, you can get started with developing Blazor WASM today<\/a> by following Jon\u2019s tutorial.<\/p>\n Visual Studio for Mac 8.6 includes a template for creating gRPC service projects with ASP.NET Core hosting support as well as C# tooling support for .proto files.<\/p>\n gRPC<\/a>\u00a0is a language agnostic, high-performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework. The main benefits of gRPC are:<\/p>\n To create a new gRPC service project, use the new gRPC template:<\/p>\n Support for .proto files enables you to leverage gRPC\u2019s contract-first approach to API development. You can create or edit .proto files with editor support, and the .NET Core gRPC tools will automatically generate a service base class.<\/p>\n Learn more in this introduction to gRPC on .NET Core<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve had issues in the past signing into Visual Studio for Mac, you\u2019ll be pleased to know the experience is now backed by new identity libraries that will ease many of the issues you may have faced signing. With the new libraries, Visual Studio for Mac now supports device code authentication and system browser. You can enable these two options in Preferences should you need them. Do note that you\u2019ll need to re-authenticate if you signed in previously as a result of the new authentication flow.<\/p>\n While the debugger is paused, an arrow in the margin shows which line of code will be executed next. You can click and drag the arrow to a different line of code to change which statement will be executed. You can achieve the same thing by also right-clicking on a line of code and selecting\u00a0Set Next Statement<\/strong>\u00a0from the context menu.<\/p>\n In order to make the Visual Studio for Mac more discoverable, we\u2019ve reviewed and improved version control and refactoring command names and organization.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve aligned our version control commands to match standard Git terminology, e.g.<\/p>\n We also reorganized the Version Control menus to make the most commonly used commands more discoverable. Here\u2019s how the Version Control menu looked in Visual Studio for Mac 8.5:<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the updated version of that menu in Visual Studio for Mac 8.6:<\/p>\n We also renamed the “Quick Fixes\u2026<\/strong>” context menu to “Quick Actions and Refactorings\u2026<\/strong>” to match the terminology on Visual Studio for Windows.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve been working hard to address issues our users encounter in Visual Studio for Mac in their average day. As part of our efforts in improving the overall experience, we\u2019ve released a handful of new changes that address some of the top reported issues, with highest priority to unhealthy (crashing and hanging) sessions. Your bug reports are very important to us as we continue to improve the product \u2013 please keep those suggestions<\/a> and problem reports<\/a> coming!<\/p>\n We hope you enjoy Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.6 as much as we enjoyed working on it. To update to this version, you can download the installer from the Visual Studio for Mac website<\/a> or use the in-product updater<\/a> to update an existing installation.<\/p>\n If you have any feedback on this, or any version of Visual Studio for Mac, please leave it in the comments below this post or reach out to us on Twitter at @VisualStudioMac<\/a>. If you run into any issues while using Visual Studio for Mac, you can use Report a Problem<\/a> to notify the team. In addition to reports on issues in the product, we\u2019d also appreciate hearing from you on what\u2019s important to you via feature suggestions<\/a> on the Visual Studio Developer Community website<\/a>.<\/p>\nBe more productive using the new integrated terminal<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nBuild Blazor WebAssembly applications<\/h2>\n
Create high performance services with gRPC<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nA more robust sign-in experience<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nImproved discoverability<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nYou spoke, we listened<\/h2>\n
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