Visual Studio for Mac Preview

FWIW, this is actually a rebranding of Xamarin Studio, so it only handles C# and F#. It's a bit puzzling, as VSCode seemed to be the tool that was going to take over all the Xamarin Studio features.

I went to install it and it seems to be forcing me to download another full Android SDK to a private location without the option the specifying the existing Android SDK location that I already have set up. A quick search show this as an open issue that is 5 years old <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.xamarin.com&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=859" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugzilla.xamarin.com&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=859</a><p>I lost interest already.

<i></i>UPDATED WITH SCREENSHOTS<i></i><p>I have it and have installed it,Initial thoughts:<p>( I use VS Pro every day BTW)<p>here are some screenshots<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;sh&#x2F;nbsetrwnoirbhr0&#x2F;AAAuF0FHR2nACBaftY3xwNoMa?dl=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropbox.com&#x2F;sh&#x2F;nbsetrwnoirbhr0&#x2F;AAAuF0FHR2nACBaft...</a><p>-Great first step, I can only see raw code and code behind views<p>-No visual Layout view yet, but its greyed out in the View Menu, when selecting .aspx File (Source|Changes|Blame|Log|Merge)<p>-Looks like its so far, meant for lightweight projects<p>-Git integration is much simpler to setup&#x2F;use

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.visualstudio.com&#x2F;visual-studio-pre-release-downloads&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.visualstudio.com&#x2F;visual-studio-pre-release-downl...</a><p>^^ download link

So Microsoft names all their products Visual Studio now. Before it used to be that everything was called Windows.<p>So its just like the 3 versions of Skype that Microsoft offers.

Xamarin studio is in many ways lighter and more asynchronous than vs proper, so there is some upside. But it&#x27;s missing visual studio&#x27;s absolutely killer feature, which is the superb c# repl. Add that and my windows virtual machine will start gathering a lot of dust.

I kind of feel like we are being astro-turfed by Microsoft.<p>* Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen<p>* Visual Studio for Mac Preview<p>* Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate<p>* Microsoft announces the next version SQL Server for Windows and Linux<p>* Announcing .NET Core 1.1<p>* Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member<p>* Visual Studio Mobile Center Preview<p>* Announcing the Fastest ASP.NET Yet, ASP.NET Core 1.1 RTM<p>(And before you tell me I&#x27;m wrong because I can&#x27;t <i>PROVE</i> it, let me remind you I said I <i>FEEL</i> like we are being astro-turfed.)

Can we change the title to &quot;Xamarin Studio for Mac renamed Visual Studio for Mac&quot;.

I&#x27;m dubious. I&#x27;ve been burned twice by MS pushing a product on the Mac platform &amp; then yanking support. In both cases the answer was effectively &quot;Well, switch to Windows.&quot;<p>I genuinely hope Microsoft is really changing. But there is a <i>lot</i> of bad history associated with the company. It takes a long time to change the culture of a company, and a long time to regain user&#x27;s trust.

This raises a question: What compilers&#x2F;toolchains did MS Macintosh Business Unit use during the second part of the 1990s?

I know that there&#x27;s a lot of comments about this just being a rename of Xamarin Studio, but hopefully this is pointer in the direction Microsoft may go in eventually joining the two IDEs and in a major version or two we might actually have a Visual Studio on Windows and Mac(and maybe Linux?) that are pretty close to each other.

I&#x27;m installing it right now, and I&#x27;m getting admin access requests -- way more than I should.

When trying to open up a project I&#x27;m getting : Error trying to load the project &#x27;Users&#x2F;user&#x2F;Projects&#x2F;Project&#x2F;ProjectName&#x2F;ProjectName.csproj&#x27;: Version string portion was too short or too long<p>Anyone know why this would be? This runs fine on windows VS

On Live they just announced it few minutes ago. Its official!!! Visual Studio on Mac :P

Was hoping for Objective C support when I saw it. Would love to get rid of Xcode.

Perhaps a bit premature. This link is live at: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.visualstudio.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.visualstudio.com&#x2F;</a> But...404ing from there too.

I&#x27;ve never used Visual Studio, so I&#x27;d like to know how easy and reliable it is to work on a remote Python code on your local Visual Studio. I&#x27;ve tried using sshfs with vim to do that, but it&#x27;s too slow and hinders my productivity. I&#x27;m wondering how other folks here do similar stuff, preferably without changing my editor from vim to something else (I&#x27;ve been suggested to use atom-sync).

I&#x27;m looking for macbook pro alternatives... so wondering, do you think one day it would be posible to have Visual Studio for PC compile iOS projects?

Doesn&#x27;t install on OSX 10.7 - not exactly a surprise, but there aren&#x27;t any system requirements on the download page that I can see.

My feedback on Visual Studio for Mac: I created a basic mobile application. I didn&#x27;t write any code - just started with a new application and clicked run. When I launched it for iOS it worked. When I launched it for Android it crashed immediately. OK...

I&#x27;m just waiting for it to be available on Linux.<p>And no, MonoDevelop isn&#x27;t the same thing. I&#x27;d like to be able to develop Android apps using Xamarin on Linux, but MonoDevelop provides me no way to even install Xamarin Android.

Kind of confused by what this actually is. Can I do .NET development from a Mac on this? As in, working in a &quot;.NET Shop&quot;, use OS X as a development machine instead of Windows?

This is confirmed to be Xamarin Studio rebranded as VS for mac.

How well does this support Unity development and debugging?

I&#x27;m excited but it errors out for me on the Java installer failing to open a DMG it downloaded. Seems odd that it requires Java at all…

The installer crapped out on my clean macOS VM.<p>:(<p>My development Mac is pretty sensitive to the version of mono installed, so I don&#x27;t want to screw around with it.

So this isn&#x27;t just for Mac apps? Are there templates for .NET Core console and web apps?

Does it support ASP.NET MVC 5?

Can anyone guestimate how much this thing will actually cost?

I was like what the hell is Mac Preview?

I like this tea cup - alternative to j.

Link change: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.visualstudio.com&#x2F;vs&#x2F;visual-studio-mac&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.visualstudio.com&#x2F;vs&#x2F;visual-studio-mac&#x2F;</a><p>Moderator, can you update?

Given the title, and the fact that this site is currently down, I can&#x27;t help but think that this could&#x27;ve be the cruelest yet funniest April Fool&#x27;s joke ever.