In the Visual Studio 2019 for Mac release, we’ll also dramatically reduce the time it takes you to connect to your source code and begin working with it in the product, by introducing a streamlined “open from version control” dialog with a brand-new Git-focused workflow. Visual Studio Team Services supports TFVC (centralized version control -CVS) or Git Repositories (de-centralized version control - DVCS) - The Git option is the option to choose if you use Xamarin Studio on a Mac. Use this page to specify your GitHub remote storage account, or create a GitHub account if you do not have one yet. You can specify several accounts and set the default account for each of your projects. Thus, you won't have to specify which account to use each time you need to connect to GitHub, for example, to create a gist.
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Since it was released a little more than a year ago, Visual Studio 2017 for Mac has grown from being an IDE primarily focused on mobile application development using Xamarin to one that includes support for all major .NET cross-platform workloads including Xamarin, Unity, and .NET Core. Our aspiration with Visual Studio for Mac is to bring the Visual Studio experiences that developers have come to know and love on Windows to the MacOS and to provide an excellent IDE experience for all .NET cross-platform developers.
Over the past year, we added several new capabilities to Visual Studio for Mac including .NET Core 2; richer language services for editing JavaScript, TypeScript, and Razor pages; Azure Functions; and the ability to deploy and debug .NET Core apps inside Docker containers. At the same time, we have continued to improve Xamarin mobile development inside Visual Studio for Mac by adding same-day support for the latest iOS and Android SDKs, improving the visual designers and streamlining the emulator and SDK acquisition experiences. And we have updated the Unity game development experience to reduce launch times of Visual Studio for Mac when working together with the Unity IDE. Finally, we have been investing heavily in fundamentals such as customer feedback via the Report-a-Problem tool, accessibility improvements, and more regular updates of components that we share with the broader .NET ecosystem such as the .NET compiler service (“Roslyn”), and the .NET Core SDKs. We believe that these changes will allow us to significantly accelerate delivery of new experiences in the near future.
While we will continue to make improvements to Visual Studio 2017 for Mac into early next year, we also want to start talking about what’s next: Visual Studio 2019 for Mac. Today, we are publishing a roadmap for Visual Studio for Mac, and in this blog post, I wanted to write about some of the major themes of feedback we are hearing and our plans to address them as described in our roadmap.
Improving the performance and reliability of the code editor
Improving the typing performance and reliability is our single biggest focus area for Visual Studio 2019 for Mac. We plan to replace most of the internals of the Visual Studio for Mac editor with those from Visual Studio. Combined with the work to improve our integration of various language services, our aspiration is to bring similar levels of editor productivity from Visual Studio to Visual Studio for Mac. Finally, as a result of this work, we will also be able to address a top request from users to add Right-To-Left (RTL) support to our editor.
Supporting Team Foundation Version Control
Including support for Team Foundation Server, with both Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) and Git as the source control mechanisms, has been one of the top requested experiences on the Mac. While we currently have an extension available for Visual Studio 2017 for Mac that adds support for TFVC, we will integrate it into the core of the source control experience in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac.
Increased productivity when working with your projects
The C# editor in Visual Studio for Mac will be built on top of the same Roslyn backend used by Visual Studio on Windows and will see continuous improvements. In Visual Studio 2017 for Mac (version 7.7), we will enable the Roslyn-powered brace completion and indentation engine which helps improve your efficiency and productivity while writing C# code. We’re also making our quick fixes and code action more discoverable by introducing a light-bulb experience. With the light bulb, you’ll see recommendations highlighted inline in the editor as you code, with quick keyboard actions to preview and apply the recommendations. In the Visual Studio 2019 for Mac release, we’ll also dramatically reduce the time it takes you to connect to your source code and begin working with it in the product, by introducing a streamlined “open from version control” dialog with a brand-new Git-focused workflow.
.NET Core and ASP.NET Core support
In future updates to Visual Studio 2017 for Mac, we will add support for .NET Core 2.2. We will add the ability to publish ASP.NET Core projects to a folder. We will also add support for Azure Functions 2.0, as well as update the New Functions Project dialog to support updating to the latest version of Azure Functions tooling and templates. In Visual Studio 2019 for Mac, we will add support for .NET Core 3.0 when it becomes available in 2019. We will add more ASP.NET Core templates and template options to Visual Studio for Mac and improve the Azure publishing options. Finally, building upon the code editor changes described above, we will improve all our language services supporting ASP.NET Core development including Razor, JavaScript and TypeScript.
Xamarin support
In addition to continuing to make improvements to the Xamarin platform itself, we will focus on improving Android build performance and improving the reliability of deploying iOS and Android apps. We will make it easy to acquire the Android emulators from within the Visual Studio for Mac IDE. Finally, we aim to make further improvements in the Xamarin.Forms Previewer and the Xamarin.Android Designer as well as the XAML language service for Xamarin Forms.
Unity support
We continue to invest in improving the experience of game developers using Unity to write and debug cross platform games as well as 2D and 3D content using Visual Studio for Mac. Unity now supports a .NET 4.7 and .NET Standard 2.0 profile, and we’re making sure that Visual Studio for Mac works out of the box to support those scenarios. Unity 2018.3 ships with Roslyn, the same C# compiler that is used with Visual Studio for Mac, and we’re enabling this for your IDE. In addition to this, we’ll be bringing our fine-tuned Unity debugger from the Visual Studio Tools for Unity to Visual Studio for Mac for a more reliable and faster Unity debugging experience.
Help us shape Visual Studio 2019 for Mac!
By supporting installation of both versions of the product side-by-side, we’ll make it easy for you to try out the Visual Studio 2019 for Mac preview releases while we are still also working on the stable Visual Studio 2017 for Mac releases in parallel.
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We don’t have preview bits to share with you just yet, but we wanted to share our plans early so you can help us shape the product with your feedback that you can share through our Developer Community website. We will update our roadmap for Visual Studio for Mac once a quarter to reflect any significant changes. We will also post an update to our roadmap for Visual Studio soon.
-->Azure functions is a way to create and run event-driven snippets of code –– functions –– in the cloud, without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. For more information about Azure Functions, see the Azure Functions documentation.
Requirements
Azure Function tools are included in Visual Studio for Mac 7.5 and newer.
To create and deploy functions you also need an Azure subscription, which is available for free from https://azure.com/free.
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Creating your first Azure Functions project
In Visual Studio for Mac, select File > New Solution.
From the New Project dialog, select the Azure Functions template under Cloud > General and click Next:
Select the initial Azure Functions template that you wish to use, enter your function name and click Next.
Tip
While the bundled Azure Functions runtime and templates (CLI) are kept as to date as possible, they inevitably get outdated. When creating a new Functions project, Visual Studio for Mac will check for updates to the CLI and will notify you as shown in the image below. Simply click on the button to download the updated templates.
Depending on the type of function you select, the next page will prompt you to enter details, such as access rights, as illustrated in the following image:
For more information on the different types of Azure Functions templates and the binding properties required to configure each template, see the Available function templates section. For this example, we're using a Http trigger with access rights set to anonymous.
Once you've set the parameters, choose the location for the project and click Create.
Visual Studio for Mac creates a .NET Standard project with a default function included. It also includes NuGet references to a variety of AzureWebJobs packages, as well as the Newtonsoft.Json package.
The new project contains the following files:
- your-function-name.cs – This class contains boilerplate code for the function that you selected. It contains a FunctionName attribute with the function name, and a trigger attribute that specifies what triggers the function (eg. a HTTP request). For more information on the function method, refer to the Azure Functions C# developer reference article.
- host.json – This file describes the global configuration options for Functions host. For an example file and information on the available settings for this file, see the host.json reference for Azure Functions.
- local.settings.json – This file contains all the settings for running functions locally. These settings are used by the Azure Functions Core Tools. For more information, see Local settings file in the Azure Functions Core Tools article.
Now that you've created a new Azure Functions project in Visual Studio for Mac, you can test out the default HTTP-triggered function from your local machine.
Testing the function locally
With Azure Functions support in Visual Studio for Mac you can test and debug your function on your local development computer.
To test your function locally, press the Run button in Visual Studio for Mac:
Running the project starts local debugging on the Azure Function and opens a new Terminal window, as illustrated in the following image:
Copy the URL from the output.
Paste the URL for the HTTP request into your browser's address bar. Add the query string
?name=<yourname>to the end of the URL and execute the request. The following image shows the response in the browser to the local GET request returned by the function:
Adding another function to your project
Function Templates enable you to quickly create new functions using the most common triggers and templates. To create another type of function, do the following:
To add a new function, right-click on the project name and select Add > Add Function...:
From the New Azure Function dialog, select the function you require:
A list of the Azure Function templates are provided in the Available function templates section.
You can use the above procedure to add more functions to your function app project. Each function in the project can have a different trigger, but a function must have exactly one trigger. For more information, see Azure Functions triggers and bindings concepts.
Publish to Azure
Right-click on the project name and select Publish > Publish to Azure:
If you've already connected your Azure account to Visual Studio for Mac a list of available app services are displayed. If you haven't logged in, you'll be prompted to do so.
From the Publish to Azure App Service dialog, you can either select an existing app service or create a new one by clicking New.
In the Create new App Service dialog, enter your settings:
Setting Description App Service Name A globally unique name that identifies your new function app. Subscription The Azure subscription to use. Resource Group Name of the resource group in which to create your function app. Choose + to create a new resource group. Service Plan Choose an existing plan or create a custom plan. Choose a Location in a region near you or near other services your functions access. Click Next to create a storage account. An Azure storage account is required by the Functions runtime. Click Custom to create a general purpose storage account, or use an existing one:
Click Create to create a function app and related resources in Azure with these settings and deploy your function project code.
You may be prompted with a dialog during publishing informing you to 'Update Functions Version on Azure'. Click Yes:
Function app settings
Any settings you added in the local.settings.json must be also added to the function app in Azure. These settings are not uploaded automatically when you publish the project.
To access your app settings, go to the Azure portal at https://ms.portal.azure.com/. Under Functions Apps, select Function Apps and highlight your function name:
From the Overview tab select Application settings under Configured features:
From here you can set Application Settings for the function app, where you can add new application settings or modify existing ones:
One important setting you may need to set is FUNCTIONS_EXTENSION_VERSION. When publishing from Visual Studio for Mac, this value should be set to beta.
Available function templates
GitHub Trigger – Respond to events that occur in your GitHub repositories. For more information, see the Azure Functions article on GitHub
- GitHub commenter – This function will be run when it receives a GitHub webhook for an issue or pull request and adds a comment.
- GitHub WebHook – This function will be run when it receives a GitHub webhook.
HTTP – Trigger the execution of your code by using an HTTP request. There are explicit templates for the following HTTP triggers:
- Http Trigger
- Http GET CRUD
- Http POST CRUD
- Http Trigger with parameters
Timer – Execute cleanup or other batch tasks on a predefined schedule. This template takes two fields: a Name and a schedule, which is a six field CRON expression. For more information, see the Azure functions article on Time
Queue Trigger – This is a function that will respond to messages as they arrive in the Azure Storage queue. In addition to the function name, this template takes a Path (the name of the queue from which the message will be read) and storage account Connection (the name of the app setting containing your storage account connection string). For more information, see the Azure functions article on Queue Storage.
Blob Trigger – Process Azure Storage blobs when they are added to a container. In addition to the function name, this template also takes a path and connection property. The path property is the path within your storage account that the trigger will monitor. The connection account is the name of the app setting containing your storage account connection string. For more information, see the Azure functions Blob Storage article.
Generic WebHook – This is a simple function that will run whenever it receives a request from any service that supports webhooks. For more information, see the Azure functions article on generic webhooks.
Durable functions orchestration – Durable Functions let you write stateful functions in a serverless environment. The extension manages state, checkpoints, and restarts for you. For more information, see the Azure functions guides on Durable functions.
Image Resizer – This function creates resized images whenever a blob is added to a container. The template takes path and connection string for the trigger, a small image output, and a medium image output.
SAS token – This function generates a SAS token for a given Azure Storage container and blob name. In addition to the function name, this template also takes a path and connection property. The path property is the path within your storage account that the trigger will monitor. The connection account is the name of the app setting containing your storage account connection string. The Access rights also need to be set. Authorization level controls whether the function requires an API key and which key to use; Function uses a function key; Admin uses your master key. For more information, see the C# Azure Function for generating SAS tokens sample.