⚠️ View the latest Visual Studio for Mac release notes on. Visual Studio for Mac is a new member of the Visual Studio family focused on mobile and cloud development using Xamarin and.NET Core.

Overview Visual Studio for Mac is an evolution of Xamarin Studio, and includes all the functionality of Xamarin Studio 6.2. Many changes have been made to the look-and-feel, terminology and default settings to to align more closely with Visual Studio, while remaining a Mac-centred development experience. Core Functionality Visual Studio for Mac has everything you would expect from a modern IDE, including a full-featured source editor, code search and navigation, a powerful debugger, a customizable workspace, git integration, and a rich extension system. Other features include: • Roslyn-based C# IntelliSense, refactoring, analyzers and code fixes • NuGet-based package management • Visual Studio compatible project format • MSBuild build engine • Integrated unit testing • Support for F# out-of-the-box Xamarin Platform First-class support for the allows you to develop rich native experiences for iOS, Android and Mac. The Xamarin.Forms cross-platform library helps you share XAML-based UI code between iOS, Android and UWP (though UWP is not supported on Mac) without limiting access to native functionality. This includes: • Building, deployment, debugging and profiling • Drag-and-drop UI designers for iOS and Android • Live preview for Xamarin Forms •.NET Standard compatible framework • Bindings to native APIs New Features The following features are new in Visual Studio for Mac Preview:.NET Core Support is a platform for creating applications that run on Windows, Linux and Mac.

Visual Studio for Mac has support for loading, creating, running and debugging.NET Core projects. In order to run.NET Core projects the.NET Core SDK should be.NET Core support includes: • C# and F# IntelliSense. •.NET Core project templates for console, library and web applications. • Full debugging support, including breakpoints, call stack, watch window, etc.

• NuGet PackageReferences and MSBuild-based restore. • Integrated unit testing support for running and debugging tests with the that is included with the.NET Core SDK. • Migration from old project.json format. Web Tooling Visual Studio for Mac adds new web tooling support for HTML, CSS and JSON files. HTML • New HTML template. • Improved smart indent and formatting. • Improved colorization.

• Improved tag Intellisense. • Entity IntelliSense. • Attribute and value IntelliSense. • Code folding (must be enabled). • Comment/uncomment. • Improved Undo.

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• Unminify command. • Improved Code Templates (snippets). • Surround selection with.

• Option up/down moves selected text up/down. CSS • Improved smart indent and formatting. • Improved colorization. • Selector IntelliSense. • Directive IntelliSense. • Improved Attribute and Value IntelliSense.

• Code folding. • Comment/uncomment. • Many Code Templates (snippets). • Option up/down moves selected text up/down.

JSON • Schema picker with access to schemastore.org • Validation from schema • IntelliSense from schema • Improved smart indent and formatting • Improved colorization • Comment/uncomment • Quote injection and brace matching • Option up/down moves selected text up/down Multiplatform App Templates The Multiplatform Forms App and the Native App project templates now offer a quick way to create a multiplatform mobile app and its cloud backend. These templates create multiple projects: a Xamarin.iOS app project and a Xamarin.Android app project that share code via a shared project, and a.NET Core Web API project that implements a back-end service for the apps.

Publishing ASP.NET Core Web Apps to Azure App Services It is possible to publish your ASP.NET Core web apps to Azure App Services. In this release, publishing to Azure is the only publish destination but we will be adding more in later releases. To publish your web app, select the Publish Publish to Azure command from the Solution Pad or from the Project menu.

Then choose the App Service you wish to deploy to, or create a new Azure App Service. Output from the publishing will be logged to a Publish output pad and a publishing profile will be created under Properties PublishProfiles in the project.

All publish profiles defined in the project will be shown as options within in the Publish menu so that you can deploy again without having to select the App Service a second time. Multi-Process Debugging In Xamarin Studio, projects have Project Run Configurations which specify options and arguments for running your project. A dropdown in the toolbar lets you view and change the current active Run Configuration. Visual Studio for Mac extends this by adding Solution Run Configurations which allow multiple projects to be launched at once.