Can this cross-compile (and perhaps remote debug) win32 and wpf applications, for example targeting a windows VM? That would be pretty awesome!
I don't think so, it's still a MonoDevelop fork
Visual Studio for Mac
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#32So 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…
People aren't going to do development on a tablet or a smartphone anytime soon.
While I agree with you there is that thing for trying Swift on iPad.
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#33No word on VB.net. I presume MS is trying to quietly phase it out.
Good riddance.
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#34I can't recognise this new Microsoft. It's basically as if this was a new company wrt. Open Source and competing.
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#35Great... Microsoft pushing their bloated sack of crap outside the confines of their abomination of an OS
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#36I'm glad to see more Microsoft dev tools on other platforms but don't lose sight of why this is happening. Microsoft is shifting their business to the cloud. They make their money off Azure and other services. In other words, they are making their money mainly off of developers now and its in their best interest to get on the good side of devs which is why they suddenly have a vested interest in open sourcing tools and helping Mac/Linux. Given the love and lavish praise I see heaped on Microsoft in every thread they do something it's clearly working. I'm not saying don't praise them when they do something good but don't be deceived into thinking they are doing it out of good faith.
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#37No word on VB.net. I presume MS is trying to quietly phase it out.
Given that "Even core features such as C# editing, Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android and ASP.NET Core are implemented as extensions", I assume it'd be relatively easy for them to implement, especially since VB and C# effectively compile the same.
Presumably, C#, Android, and iOS are their top priorities to support, things like VB are less so, but could be added later.
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#38Interesting, 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#)
Hmm I have been googling for the last 15 minutes to find the difference between visual studio and visual studio code and cant seem to find a concrete answer. I thought yours was actually a hint at what it is aimed for but when you go to:
it actually says it supports c++,c#... I still dont get what the difference is..
Having only ever developed on linux I am actually slightly excited to use an IDE like visual studio after seeing some people at work use it..
Re: Visual Studio for Mac
#39So 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…
If we're comparing Apples-to-Apples (seriously, pun not (originally) intended), Apple continues to rev on the XCode IDE every year adding more features to it. Most recently, they added a nifty visual memory debugger[1] and have taken another stab at device & certificate provisioning.
[1]: http://useyourloaf.com/blog/xcode-visual-memory-debugger/
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#40No C++ support, I suppose.
I was really excited until I realized that. A C# IDE on macOS is cool, but damn I would kill for a better C++ experience on Apple. Xcode is ok, but it's code completion is buggy and there is no refactoring support... I've heard CLion is cool but I'm kind of poor and don't have the spare cash for it.