Visual Studio Preview For Mac
- Although Microsoft's new Visual Studio for Mac 7.4 preview is mostly a 'fix stuff' release, it does add support for Android Oreo 8.1 along with some productivity boosts for those coding mobile apps with Xamarin. In this release, the fix was in for issues reported by VS developers primarily.
- This post was originally published at Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac Version 7.4 Preview. We’re excited to start the new year off with great updates to the Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview for both Windows and Mac, and we hope that you will install and use it, and then tell us what you think.
- Microsoft to deliver Visual Studio for Mac. Microsoft is readying a preview of Visual Studio for Mac, which is an 'evolution' of the Xamarin Studio IDE.
- Visual Studio 2017 for Mac version 7.7 Preview 3 (7.7.0.1470) released October 2, 2018. We fixed an issue were an exception is thrown when using syntax highlighting in Visual Studio for Mac 7.6.; We fixed an issue where Visual Studio for Mac IntelliSense does not work correctly in version 7.6.1 (build 9).; We fixed an issue where Visual Studio for Mac IDE themes look wrong.
Last month, Microsoft announced the release of Visual Studio for Mac: a full-featured development environment to help developers on the Mac create apps, games, and services for mobile, cloud,.
Visual Studio for Mac is something that many Microsoft developers have sought for more than a decade. As Mac OS X became interesting in the early 2000s, coders who spent most of their days working in Visual Studio on Windows wondered why they couldn’t use the same languages, frameworks, and tools for the Mac, rather than needing to learn Objective-C, Cocoa, and Xcode, all of which were substantially different from the languages and tools for Windows development.
Many of us thought the ECMA standards for C# and the .Net Framework, and the Mono project spearheaded by Miguel de Icaza (first at Ximian, then Novell, then Xamarin, and finally at Microsoft), might provide a path to a unified development platform. I for one had no idea it would take so long, although I was aware of at least some of the rather Byzantine politics going on among the various interested parties, through my involvement with the .Net series of books. I was also aware of the reputation that both Mono and Xamarin had for being “a bit crashy.”
The introduction of the lightweight, portable Visual Studio Code, and the gradual integration of Xamarin tools into Visual Studio 2015, were positive signs in my view. Once Microsoft announced it would acquire Xamarin (in February 2016) it became clear to me that the Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio IDEs were likely to merge on the Mac to create a single development environment, but I wasn’t sure exactly what form it would take or how many of the features from Visual Studio for Windows could or would be implemented on the Mac.
Inside Visual Studio for the Mac
Essentially, Visual Studio for the Mac is Xamarin Studio plus a Visual Studio look and feel, along with Roslyn-based C# IntelliSense, refactoring, analyzers, and code fixes; NuGet-based package management; a Visual Studio-compatible project format; the MSBuild engine; integrated unit testing; and support for F#.
Let’s unwrap that a little to understand what it means, in case you aren’t familiar with both Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio. In general terms Visual Studio for Mac is an integrated Macintosh development environment for C# and F# applications that run on iOS, Android, and Mac targets, with a variety of application forms and technologies, including game engines. Several of the app types use portable frameworks. Some support iOS and Android with Xamarin, and others support iOS and Mac games with SpriteKit (2D) and SceneKit (3D).
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I'm trying to add a custom project template to Visual Studio Preview for Mac, but can't find the right place or folder to add it.
Any idea where I should but the template?
1 Answer
For Visual Studio Preview for Mac the project templates can be placed in ~/Library/Application Support/VisualStudio/7.0/LocalInstall/Addins
Visual Studio Preview for Mac is forked from Xamarin Studio, which in turn is based on MonoDevelop. Creating 'project templates' for MonoDevelop is done with Add-ins, the instructions for which are outlined in the Documentation.
I did a quick experiment by copying a project template (Add-in) from Xamarin Studio and dropping it in the above location and it appeared in the 'New Project' dialog.
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