Where's the download for Preview? It's not in https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/
Visual Studio for Mac
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#12For a moment I got all excited and thought they had ported WPF to OS/X.
Awesome Idea. No market.
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#13Can this cross-compile (and perhaps remote debug) win32 and wpf applications, for example targeting a windows VM? That would be pretty awesome!
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#14For a moment I got all excited and thought they had ported WPF to OS/X.
I get the impression that WPF is pretty much on life support.
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#15Interesting, but I can also see some risks with their approach. Now they have three different Visual Studios with completely different technology stacks.
1) Visual Studio for Windows (C++, I assume?)
2) Visual Studio Code (Javascript, Atom)
3) Visual Studio for Mac (C#)
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#16Where's the download for Preview? It's not in https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/
Probably won't be available before the Connect conference next week (November 16-18).
> At Connect(); in November, Microsoft is launching a preview of Visual Studio for Mac.
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#17So Microsoft is treating the Mac more seriously as a professional platform while Apple is treating it less seriously? I'm not saying this in a snarky way; I mean it literally as a change of corporate strategies in both companies. Microsoft seems to be saying, If you are a pro mainly using the Mac for professional work, we want to do a better job of empowering you, and Apple seems to be saying, If you are a pro mainly using the Mac for professional work, you need to get used to the idea that we are deemphasizing your market--no hard feelings.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since it's based on MonoDevelop/Xamarin you should expect it soon.
Really? Awesome! What's Microsoft's game plan with this? Are they trying to drive more people towards Azure?
Yes, that was also the analysis for the recent Linux layer in Windows. At the same time Powershell was ported which allows Windows admins to continue to use their tools.
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#19It is based on Xamarin Studio. I work with XS on OSX last 3 years. Unfortunatelly, Xamarin Studio has a lot of issues with performance, refactoring, it crashes from time to time.
I think it will be better to wait for release of Project Rider. At least EAP is already available
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#20No word on VB.net. I presume MS is trying to quietly phase it out.