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With the power of Roslyn, Visual Studio for Mac brings IntelliSense to your fingertips. IntelliSense describes APIs as you type and uses auto-completion to increase the speed and accuracy of how you write code.
Quick Info tool tips let you inspect API definitions, squiggly lines in the editor highlight issues, in real time as you type.
Use the Visual Studio debugger to quickly find and fix bugs across languages.
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The Visual Studio for Mac debugger lets you step inside your code by setting Breakpoints, Step Over statements, Step Into and Out of functions, and inspect the current state of the code stack through powerful visualizations.
As your project grows, chances are, you’ll find yourself restructuring and refactoring code that you or someone else wrote earlier. That’s a whole lot easier when Visual Studio for Mac takes care of the heavy lifting for you.
The Visual Studio for Mac editor supports powerful built-in refactoring options such as Extract Method and Rename, accessible via the Quick Actions menu.
Manage your code in Git or SVN repos hosted by any provider, including GitHub and Azure DevOps. Review diffs, stage files, and make commits from inside Visual Studio for Mac.
Choose the development environment that is right for you. With Visual Studio on both macOS and Windows, you can share your C# and F# projects seamlessly with your team using either OS.
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| Web and cloud development using C# | ||
| ASP.NET Core and .NET Core | ||
| Publish to Azure | ||
| Azure Functions | ||
| Azure Connected Services | ||
| Docker container tools | ||
| Desktop development | ||
| WPF and Windows Forms | ||
| UWP | ||
| Mac Apps using Xamarin and C# | ||
| Console apps with C# | ||
| Desktop apps using C++ | ||
| Mobile and gaming | ||
| Mobile development with .NET using Xamarin and C# | ||
| Game development using Unity and C# | ||
| Mobile and game development using C++ | ||
| Other workloads and tools | ||
| Java | ||
| Python | ||
| SQL Server data tools | ||
| Node.js | ||
| Unit testing | ||
| Version control with Git | ||
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Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, has been released, along with .NET Core 2.0 and Visual Studio for Mac (version 7.1) operating system. Microsoft, in a blog post, announced the availability of both the products. Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 contains many new improvements and fixes.
.NET Core 2.0 is the second major version of .NET Core and this release focuses on performance improvements and expanded set of APIs available via .NET Standard 2.0.
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What's new in Visual Studio 2017, version 15.3?
- Accessibility Improvements make Visual Studio more accessible than ever.
- Azure Function Tools are included in the Azure development workload. You can develop Azure Function applications locally and publish directly to Azure.
- You can now build applications in Visual Studio 2017 that run on Azure Stack and government clouds, like Azure in China.
- Microsoft improved .NET Core development support for .NET Core 2.0, and Windows Nano Server containers.
- In Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft improved Sign In and Identity, the start page, Lightweight Solution Load, and setup CLI. Microsoft also improved refactoring, code generation and Quick Actions.
- The Visual Studio Editor has better accessibility due to the new ‘Blue (Extra Contrast)’ theme and improved screen reader support.
- Microsoft improved the Debugger and diagnostics experience. This includes Point and Click to Set Next Statement. Microsoft also refreshed all nested values in variable window, and made Open Folder debugging improvements.
- Xamarin has a new standalone editor for editing app entitlements.
- The Open Folder and CMake Tooling experience is updated. You can now use CMake 3.8.
- Microsoft made improvements to the IntelliSense engine, and to the project and the code wizards for C++ Language Services.
- Visual C++ Toolset supports command-prompt initialization targeting.
- Microsoft added the ability to use C# 7.1 Language features.
- You can install TypeScript versions independent of Visual Studio updates.
- Microsoft added support for Node 8 debugging.
- NuGet has added support for new TFMs (netcoreapp2.0, netstandard2.0, Tizen), Semantic Versioning 2.0.0, and MSBuild integration of NuGet warnings and errors.
- Visual Studio now offers .NET Framework 4.7 development tools to supported platforms with 4.7 runtime included.
- Microsoft added clusters of related events to the search query results in the Application Insights Search tool.
- Microsoft improved syntax support for SQL Server 2016 in Redgate SQL Search.
- Microsoft enabled support for Microsoft Graph APIs in Connected Services.
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For the complete changes and fixes, as part of this new build, checkout the official Release Notes.