Last year at Build, we launched Visual Studio for Mac, our native macOS IDE for developers building cloud, web, and mobile applications using .NET. Updates have been rolling out at a steady pace ever since, and we’re excited to announce the release of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5. We have also continued to bring more Visual Studio 2017 code to the Mac.

• Visual Studio Xamarin Sample Applications

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2. Watch video  In Visual Studio for Mac, right-click on the existing Xamarin.Forms solution and choose Add > Add New Project. In the New Project window choose Mac > App > Cocoa App and press Next. Type an App Name (and optionally choose a.

Mac OS users can build apps for mobile, web, and cloud with Xamarin and.NET Core, and games with Unity using Visual Studio. In this article, I will share how to create new Xamarin.Forms application using Visual Studio for Mac. Visual Studio for Mac will now format your code following the conventions specified in the.editorconfig file. This will allow you to set your coding style, preferences, and warnings for your project; making it simpler for code that you contribute to other projects to follow the practices of those projects.

Our mission has always been to delight developers, and we have something for everyone in this release. You can get started by downloading the new release or updating your existing install to the latest build in the Stable channel.

Here are some of the features we’re most excited to share with you:

• ASP.NET Core developers now have full Razor editor support. We’ve also introduced JavaScript and TypeScript support.
• For iOS developers, we added WiFi debugging support for iOS and tvOS applications. We also improved the iOS provisioning system.
• Android developers will enjoy the new Android SDK manager built right into the IDE, as well as a device manager to keep track of all your devices and emulators
• Xamarin.Forms developers will enjoy an improved XAML editing experience
• Cloud developers have support for Azure Functions development using .NET Core.
• We support .NET Core 2.1 RC and C# 7.2.
• Code-styling rules can be configured per-project using .editorconfig files.
• A preview of Team Foundation Version Control support for Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services is now available.

We’re also shipping improvements to performance and stability, accessibility, and multi-language support, along with fixes for a number of bugs reported by our vibrant developer community. You can find the full list of changes in our release notes.

ASP.NET Core development with Razor, JavaScript, and TypeScript Editor Support

We partnered with the Roslyn and Visual Studio JavaScript tooling teams to reuse Razor, JavaScript, and TypeScript editor source code, bringing the editing experiences you know and love from Visual Studio 2017 to the Mac.

Official Razor support includes IntelliSense and syntax highlighting in .cshtml files

Our JavaScript editor has been rewritten to provide the core editor experience you expect, including IntelliSense, enhanced colorization, and brace completion. We’ve also added TypeScript editing support, which shares the same IntelliSense and colorization as our JavaScript experience.

Use .editorconfig files to Set Code Style Rules in Projects

One of my favorite features is finally here: .editorconfig

Visual Studio for Mac will now format your code following the conventions specified in the .editorconfig file. This will allow you to set your coding style, preferences, and warnings for your project; making it simpler for code that you contribute to other projects to follow the practices of those projects.

Xamarin.Forms Development

We now ship Xamarin.Forms templates that take advantage of .NET Standard Libraries.

Working with XAML just got better, too, with IntelliSense improvements providing better support for self-closing elements and more completions.

Android Development with Xamarin

On the Android side of the house, we added an integrated Android Device Manager dialog, eliminating the need to rely upon 3^rd-party tools for device and emulator management. You can find this under Tools > Device Manager.

iOS Development with Xamarin

iOS fans will enjoy a streamlined Entitlements editor experience, making it a breeze to add capabilities and services to your iOS apps.

Simply open the Entitlements.plist file and jump right in! Not only that, our new Automatic Signing experience makes deploying your application to devices very simple. In the Signing section of the Info.plist editor, you’ll find using Automatic Signing makes the burdens of manually tracking your entitlements and provisioning devices things of the past.

Building Serverless solutions with Azure Functions

Our new Azure Functions templates now support the Azure Functions .NET Core SDK, empowering you to build, debug, and test Azure Functions locally. In addition, item templates provide guidance for building functions using the most common triggers, enabling you to get up and running with new functions in minutes.

After creating a new Azure Functions project, right-click and select Add > Add Function, then choose your favorite function from the template dialog.Check out our documentation for a walkthrough to create your first Function in Azure.

.NET Core 2.1 RC and C# 7.2

Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 now supports .NET Core 2.1 RC. Major improvements include faster build performance, better compatibility with .NET Framework, and closing gaps in both ASP.NET Core and EF Core. You can read more about the .NET Core 2.1 RC release in the announcement blog post. Support for the newest C# release, version 7.2, is also available today.

Working with your source with Team Foundation Version Control

One of our most popular feature requests has been to add support for Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) to access source saved in Team Foundation Server or Visual Studio Team Services. We heard you loud and clear! Today, we’re previewing a new extension to do just that.

To install the extension, navigate to Visual Studio > Extensions… in the Visual Studio for Mac menu and search the gallery for “team foundation”. We support Get, Commit (with associated work items), version history, and more.

Feedback

We hope you’ll find Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 as delightful as we do. Let us know what you think! Your feedback helps us improve our products and better understand your needs as a developer.

Please let us know about issues via Help > Report a Problem. You’ll be able to track your issues and receive updates in the Visual Studio Developer Community.

You can also provide product suggestions via the Help > Provide a Suggestion menu and vote on suggestions at the Visual Studio for Mac UserVoice site.

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Before you start, create (or use an existing) Xamarin.Forms project. You can only add Mac apps using Visual Studio for Mac.

Adding a macOS project to Xamarin.Forms video

Adding a Mac App

Follow these instructions to add a Mac app that will run on macOS Sierra and macOS El Capitan:

1. In Visual Studio for Mac, right-click on the existing Xamarin.Forms solution and choose Add > Add New Project...

2. In the New Project window choose Mac > App > Cocoa App and press Next.

3. Type an App Name (and optionally choose a different name for the Dock Item), then press Next.

4. Review the configuration and press Create. These steps are shown in below:

5. In the Mac project, right-click on Packages > Add Packages... to add the Xamarin.Forms NuGet. You should also update the other projects to use the same version of the Xamarin.Forms NuGet package.

6. In the Mac project, right-click on References and add a reference to the Xamarin.Forms project (either Shared Project or .NET Standard library project).

7. Update Main.cs to initialize the AppDelegate:

8. Update AppDelegate to initialize Xamarin.Forms, create a window, and load the Xamarin.Forms application (remembering to set an appropriate Title). If you have other dependencies that need to be initialized, do that here as well.

9. Double-click Main.storyboard to edit in Xcode. Select the Window and uncheck the Is Initial Controller checkbox (this is because the code above creates a window):

   You can edit the menu system in the storyboard to remove unwanted items.

10. Finally, add any local resources (eg. image files) from the existing platform projects that are required.

11. The Mac project should now run your Xamarin.Forms code on macOS!

Next Steps

Styling

With recent changes made to OnPlatform you can now target any number of platforms. That includes macOS.

Note you may also double up on platforms like this: <On Platform='iOS, macOS' ...>.

Window Size and Position

You can adjust the initial size and location of the window in the AppDelegate:

Known Issues

This is a Preview, so you should expect that not everything is production ready. Below are a few things you may encounter as you add macOS to your projects:

Not all NuGets are ready for macOS

You may find that some of the libraries you use do not yet support macOS. In this case, you'll need to send a request to the project's maintainer to add it. Until they have support, you may need to look for alternatives.

Missing Xamarin.Forms Features

Not all Xamarin.Forms features are complete in this preview. For more information, see Platform Support macOS Status in the Xamarin.Forms GitHub repository.

Visual Studio Xamarin Sample Applications

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