Visual Studio 2017 For Mac

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Visual Studio for Mac has just been released! Come join us for a tour of this fully-featured IDE that will help every Mac developer create mobile and cloud applications. We started with a solid foundation for mobile development using Xamarin, and cloud development using .NET Core and recently added ASP.NET Core support. We’ve just announced support for game development with Unity, and new preview features for Azure developers using Docker or Azure Functions. In this hour and a half, learn about the basics of the IDE such as navigation, debugging, code editing, and refactoring tools to ease your C# and F# development. We also take a whirlwind tour through the mobile and cloud features included in the IDE. Finally, we look at what’s coming up next.

Visual Studio for Mac enables the creation of.NET Core solutions, providing the back-end services to your client solutions. Code, debug, and test these cloud services simultaneously with your client solutions for increased productivity. Visual Studio for Mac has just been released! Come join us for a tour of this fully-featured IDE that will help every Mac developer create mobile and cloud applications. We started with a solid founda.

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Introduction
The Native Experience
How it works
Team Collaboration
Installing Visual Studio for Mac

Introduction

Microsoft Visual Studio is a very powerful IDE, we all know that as it has many features not available anywhere else, including but not limited to IntelliSense, Multi Platform Support and ease of use.

Since Visual Studio 97 released, Visual Studio mainly supported Windows, though Visual Studio Code was available for Linux and Mac, it doesn’t ship all features needed by default.

Now Visual Studio for Mac is available for all Mac users running Mac OS X Sierra or any later version of Mac OS.

More InfoIf you would like to start using Visual Studio for developing, read the details about its installation, launching and creating a new project in my post Get Started Developing with Visual Studio.

The Native Experience

Visual Studio for Mac provides you with a 100% native experience for Mac, combined with the productivity of Mac OS.

How it works

Visual Studio for Mac is shipped with three different versions.

Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 for Mac.
Professional 2017 for Mac.
Visual Studio Community 2017 for Mac.

You can know more about features available for each version from Visual Studio IDEs Comparison.

Visual Studio for Mac is composed of a set of extensions, each of these extensions provides a specific feature or a set of features.

Team Collaboration and Visual Studio for Mac

As Expected, Visual Studio for Mac supports source control which is an essential for any development team.

Visual Studio 2017 For Mac Free

You can use any form of Git Repositories, whoever is your Git Repositories provider, this, of course, includes the most common

Installing Visual Studio for Mac

Installing Visual Studio on Mac is easy & customization, all you need is just to follow these steps.

1. Go to Visual Studio for Mac download page on Visual Studio website.
2. Download the installer (.dmg) and open it, if alerts appear, click “Open”.
3. The Installer will check for the current components (if any) then will ask you to choose which components do you need.
4. Choose which extensions do you need, make sure your internet connection is good.
5. Go ahead! Click Install.
6. Set back and relax, the installer will download the required components.
7. Once finished, click “Start” and start exploring the power of Visual Studio with Mac Experience.

Conclusion

Team collaboration from multiple platforms is essential for efficient work, as many companies now use BYOD (Bring your own device) method, Visual Studio for Mac allows many developers to perform better by using the platform they’re most comfortable with.

Visual Studio 2017 For Mac Terminal Window

VideoYou can see this video, if you would like to find more information about how to install Visual Studio 2017 and point to some tricky components. See which Workloads needs to be installed and which Individual Components needs to be selected additionally. See how to install another Edition of Visual Studio and just put different nickname in order to distinguish installed editions.