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Visual Studio for Mac Preview Release Notes

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View the latest Visual Studio for Mac release notes on docs.microsoft.com.

Visual Studio for Mac is a new member of the Visual Studio family focused onmobile and cloud development using Xamarin and .NET Core.

Overview

Visual Studio for Mac is an evolution of Xamarin Studio, andincludes all the functionality of Xamarin Studio 6.2.

Many changes have been made to the look-and-feel, terminology and defaultsettings to to align more closely with Visual Studio, while remaininga Mac-centred development experience.

Core Functionality

Visual Studio for Mac has everything you would expect from amodern IDE, including a full-featured source editor, code search andnavigation, a powerful debugger, acustomizable 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 XamarinPlatform allows you to develop rich nativeexperiences for iOS, Android and Mac. The Xamarin.Forms cross-platformlibrary helps you share XAML-based UI code between iOS, Android and UWP(though UWP is not supported on Mac) without limiting accessto 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

.NET Core is a platform for creating applicationsthat 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 bedownloaded and installed.

.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 Visual Studio Test Platform 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.
Unminify command.
Improved Code Templates (snippets).
Surround selection with <div>.
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 amultiplatform mobile app and its cloud backend.

These templates create multiple projects: a Xamarin.iOS app project anda 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 toa Publish output pad and a publishing profile will be created under PropertiesPublishProfiles 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 havingto select the App Service a second time.

Multi-Process Debugging

In Xamarin Studio, projects have Project Run Configurations which specify optionsand arguments for running your project. A dropdown in the toolbar lets youview and change the current active Run Configuration.

Visual Studio for Mac extends this by adding Solution Run Configurationswhich allow multiple projects to be launched at once. You can create solutionrun configurations in the Solution Options dialog.

Using solution run configurations, you can debug multiple projectsat once. This is very useful for debugging how a mobile app interacts withits backend service.

TextMate Bundles

Visual Studio for Mac has support for TextMate language bundles, which youcan use to add:

Editor color themes
Code snippets
Grammars for new languages, enabling highlighting and basic IntelliSense

You can add TextMate bundles in Preferences > Text Editor > Language Bundles.

iOS

Audio Unit Wizard

The new Audio Unit Extension wizard adds 3 options to customize the Audio Unit project template's plist.

Audio Unit Type<

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