A couple of days ago we informed you of Microsoft's intention to offer Mac users the ability to program applications directly in OS X without having to install Windows on their Macs, an idea that will surely come in handy for all those users who usually have to work with both operating systems just to use Visual Studio. But at the moment we did not know anything else about it, if the version would be complete or would it continue to force it to go through the Windows ring. To try to clear up any doubts, any user who is interested can now download a previous version through the link that I leave after the jump.
Visual Studio for Mac version is available through this link. This Mac edition leverages the technology Microsoft acquired from Xamarin to support C # development for iOS, macOS, Windows and Android, including access to the Xamarin. For server-based projects, the application supports Azure and .NET Core.
Users can integrate NuGet packages, and a number of third-party resources like Git. Other features include a line-of-code termination function, for visual developers, and a universal search for files, commands, types ...
Traditionally Microsoft has encouraged developers to stay on Windows, but in recent years, the company has become more independent of its platform and it is betting on diversifying both its services and its applications to the maximum. Microsoft's idea is none other than that its services and applications are increasingly being used by more and more users.
Well, to say that it is an update of Xamarin Studio and that at the moment it does not add anything new to what already had (in fact with Xamarin Studio you had extensions that now no longer work in Visual Studio for Mac) so they only made a change of name and appearance to Xamarin Studio. I suppose that this will make the editor evolve more and that it will soon begin to fill with extensions to expand the possibilities.