The latest step, taken at Build 2017, is to release the finished version. It looks a lot like Visual Studio, but it isn't. The new Visual Studio for Mac is a rebranded version of Xamarin Studio. Microsoft acquired Xamarin and along with it cam Xamarin Studio, which worked on the Mac. This sounds like an about face in Microsoft's attitude to the enemy, and indeed it is, but it isn't quite the whole story. Now when you run Visual Studio you are confronted with a range of technologies that makes it hard to believer that the "only ways" are being adequately served.Īn indication of how much things have changed was the announcement of Visual Studio for Mac back in November 2016 and the release of a preview. It was a favorite IDE because it made work easy, but it was also a favorite because it was focused. NET programming with a side order of Win32 if you really had to. Visual Studio was once a Windows-only IDE and, more than that it was focused on. Visual Studio 2017 for Mac is now in production and this is not something anyone would have predicted only a few years ago.
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