Visual Studio for Mac

Re:Visual Studio for Mac by jsingleton on Monday November 14, 2016 @05:48AM (#12948885)

As I understand it, Visual Studio for Mac is simply a re-branded Xamarin Studio and will continue to be. It includes the improvements they had planned for the next release but I doubt they will do a rewrite.

I actually prefer Xamarin Studio over Visual Studio (on Windows) in some respects. For example, the Xamarin.Forms XAML previewer is much better. Looking forward to a full designer.

P.S. I've got a four part blog post series this week on Xamarin.Forms. Starting with this today: https://unop.uk/cross-platform-native-mobile-app-development...

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Re:Visual Studio for Mac by ickler8 on Monday November 14, 2016 @03:43PM (#12953160)

Visual Studio for Mac is a re-brand of Xamarin Studio. However, perhaps more importantly than the software itself, opening the Visual Studio brand to the mac environment signals Microsoft's commitment, yet again, to meeting developers in their chosen environment. Xamarin Studio is also based on MonoDevelop, so maybe this could accelerate a VS linux port, if they're so inclined.

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Re:Visual Studio for Mac by supergreg on Monday November 14, 2016 @07:41AM (#12949411)

I just started looking into Xamarin Forms and couldn't figure if it was just blindly typing xaml or there was a way to preview it. Thanks for the posts.

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Re:Visual Studio for Mac by jsingleton on Monday November 14, 2016 @08:52AM (#12949785)

Yeah, for now you have to type the XAML but a designer is coming. There is a preview of a previewer but I couldn't get the one in VS to do anything. The XS previewer did work for me though. Make sure Android Studio / ADK is updated if only iOS is working.

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Re:Visual Studio for Mac by my_ghola on Monday November 14, 2016 @01:10PM (#12951877)

I've only tried in VS so far. I'll check XS. Thanks.

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