+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted November 14, 2016 Subscriber² Share Posted November 14, 2016 Quote Visual Studio for Mac - Introducing Visual Studio for Mac At Connect(); in November, Microsoft is launching a preview of Visual Studio for Mac. This is an exciting development, evolving the mobile-centric Xamarin Studio IDE into a true mobile-first, cloud-first development tool for .NET and C#, and bringing the Visual Studio development experience to the Mac. A New Member of the Visual Studio Family At its heart, Visual Studio for Mac is a macOS counterpart of the Windows version of Visual Studio. If you enjoy the Visual Studio development experience, but need or want to use macOS, you should feel right at home. Its UX is inspired by Visual Studio, yet designed to look and feel like a native citizen of macOS. And like Visual Studio for Windows, it’s complemented by Visual Studio Code for times when you don’t need a full IDE, but want a lightweight yet rich standalone source editor. Below the surface, Visual Studio for Mac also has a lot in common with its siblings in the Visual Studio family. Its IntelliSense and refactoring use the Roslyn Compiler Platform; its project system and build engine use MSBuild; and its source editor supports TextMate bundles. It uses the same debugger engines for Xamarin and .NET Core apps, and the same designers for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android. Compatibility is a key focus of Visual Studio for Mac. Although it’s a new product and doesn’t support all of the Visual Studio project types, for those it does have in common it uses the same MSBuild solution and project format. If you have team members on macOS and Windows, or switch between the two OSes yourself, you can seamlessly share your projects across platforms. There’s no need for any conversion or migration. Source and full article: msdn.microsoft.com xfx, Bamsebjørn and Danielx64 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bamsebjørn Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 It appears to be a rebranding of Xamarin Studio. A logical renaming, not a good replacement for Visual Studio for Windows (yet). I hope they'll release this for Linux as well: It would be nice to have a good IDE for .NET Android development on Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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