Roger Fingas
As anticipated earlier this week, Microsoft on Wednesday released Visual Studio for the Mac, bringing over one of its signature Windows developer tools.
The Mac edition is currently available only in a free preview build, but takes advantage of technology Microsoft acquired from Xamarin to support C# development for iOS, macOS, Windows, and Android, including access to the Xamarin Test Cloud. For server-based projects, the app supports Azure and .NET Core.
Users can integrate NuGet packages, and a number of third-party resources like Git and Subversion. Other features include Intellisense code completion, visual designers, and universal search across files, types, members, commands, and NuGets.
Traditionally Microsoft has encouraged developers to remain with Windows, but in recent years the company has become more platform-agnostic, willing to support other devices and operating systems — so long as people use Microsoft software and services.
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In other words, a renamed version of Xamarin Studio, not a port of Visual Studio.
Save yourself 15 GB. Targets all get a big red X next to them with the helpful message "Load failed: Unknown solution item type" that pops up sometimes when you roll over them. This was on a VS 2015 project my team works on on Windows boxes. If only I could find where the 15 GBs went.
Is this a case of 'Visual Studio is dead', long live Visual Studio'? In other words is the rebranded