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Microsoft Officially Launches 'Visual Studio for Mac' With Cross-Platform App Coding
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When this has all the bells and whistles of its Windows counterpart, there goes my primary reason for running Windows on a Mac via Boot Camp.
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It's going to be a while before VS for Mac gets anything like Resharper, if that even happens at all.
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It's going to be a while before VS for Mac gets anything like Resharper, if that even happens at all.
I honestly don't understand the love for Visual Studio here. I use it daily, I hate it. It's sluggish, bloated, and has quirky as hell autocomplete.
yeah quirky is one word for it no doubt... i think it isn't about love so much as lots of primarily mac users who are forced to use it for work on windows machines like myself.
in terms of resharper i was hoping the 'plug-in' system perhaps was just written in c# and would be out of the box compatible. wishful thinking?
Cool! I used to code in MS Basic on my Mac Plus and used Word Basic on my old Mac to process thousands of HTML files in 1995. Used to write screen savers on VB in Windows 3.1!
Xcode sets a low bar.. Bottom of the barrel quality.
[doublepost=1494446807][/doublepost]Try Rider...
https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/
Cross platform .NET environment.. jet brains also develop Resharper.
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This used to be Real Basic?
This is not, mind you, a port of Visual Studio for Windows, but a rebranding of Xamarin Studio (itself a rebranded MonoDevelop). It does share some code with Visual Studio for Windows, especially in the .NET area, but is otherwise neither visually nor architecturally very similar.
In general, Visual Studio for Windows has much broader scope — you can build C++ apps, Windows desktop apps (WinForms, WPF), etc. with it. The Mac version is essentially .NET-only, and only supports the various Xamarin targets (macOS, iOS, etc., Android) as well as Web development.
The same installer that came up in Japanese on my machine despite that being my third language preference...
Edit: And then crashed.
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I've install the professional version and play around with it. I don't think it's as "full featured" as on windows. It feels like a light version of it.
Regarding Xcode v.s. VS. I've been using both and each is great in its own environment. There're pros and cons on both. There's no comparison since the dev environments are vastly different. UI wise, I personally like Xcode more.
Regarding Xcode v.s. VS. I've been using both and each is great in its own environment. There're pros and cons on both. There's no comparison since the dev environments are vastly different. UI wise, I personally like Xcode more.
This is great! How about SQL Server Management Studio next? Please?
And iOS versions of both for iPad Pro? Pretty please?
And iOS versions of both for iPad Pro? Pretty please?
Probably takes less time to download and install an update for, too...
Glassed Silver:win
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It's hard to imagine tons of people shelling out more than $500/year for the pro version when Xcode is $0/year.
Also, I use Xcode a lot at times... what's so wrong with it?
Also, I use Xcode a lot at times... what's so wrong with it?
If you've used other IDEs, you will soon notice its short comings especially when cranking out code.
I've used a lot of different IDEs. I don't really see the problem.
While I completely agree, if you've not tried the SQL Pro Studio app (https://www.sqlprostudio.com/) or its MSSQL version you should check them out. Very good applications!
It's not really a port of Visual Studio - it's Xamarin's web-based C# IDE, rebranded.