Microsoft has it’s launching its primary coding interface, Visual Studio, on Mac computers. The news may sound uninteresting, but it’s been a long time coming, and is a big shakeup for the company, which has previously preferred to lock developers into its platform by keeping coding tools Windows-only. The change comes as Microsoft shifts its focus to its money-making cloud operation. While programming tasks in the past might have been carried out on local servers, they’re now increasingly using platform-agnostic cloud services like (from Microsoft) and (from Amazon).
By making Visual Studio cross-platform, Microsoft will be hoping to retain professional users that want to work on their projects from any operating system they like. The software is based on app development platform Xamarin Studio, and the change could encourage Mac and iOS developers to make more apps for Windows, as these users will no longer have to buy a Windows computer or set up a virtual machine to access Visual Studio.
The news follows a similar announcement from earlier this year, when the company announced it would be adding to Windows for the first time ever. As Microsoft's Scott Hanselman, adding Bash support was 'brilliant for developers that use a diverse set of tools' — launching Visual Studio for Mac is a similar move. A preview of the software will be unveiled at Microsoft’s Connect developer event later this week. For more information including technical details, head over to Microsoft’s announcing the news. Update November 14th, 8:54AM ET: Seems like Microsoft hit publish on this one a little early and has taken down the original blog post. You can find the cached version. How Visual Studio looks on a Mac.
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After spending months in, Microsoft today is officially launching its (via ). Visual Studio allows developers to code applications using Microsoft's integrated development environment (IDE) on Apple's macOS platform, which they can sync across both Windows and Mac devices. Thanks to integration with Xamarin, a cross-platform software development company that Microsoft acquired last year, Visual Studio encourages macOS and iOS developers 'to use Microsoft’s development tools, since they will no longer need a Windows computer or virtual machine to do so.' Xamarin Studio is expected to eventually close for good following a full integration into Microsoft. “Developers get a great IDE and a single environment to not only work on end-to-end solutions — from mobile and web apps to games — but also to integrate with and deploy to Azure,” Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of the Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise group, said in a statement.
“Whether you use C#, F#,.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Xamarin or Unity, you’ll get a best-in-class development environment, natively designed for the Mac.” Visual Studio has been designed natively for macOS, according to Microsoft, letting developers manage their code hosted by any provider, including GitHub and Visual Studio Team Services. Developers can build, connect, and tune native mobile apps for iOS, macOS, and Android while also having the ability to create web applications thanks to support for ASP.NET Core. In terms of programming languages, the C# and F# languages are supported.
There are of that users can download, including Visual Studio Community, Visual Studio Professional, and Visual Studio Enterprise. Microsoft markets Community as its free, but 'fully-featured,' IDE for students and individual developers. Professional targets small teams with subscription benefits, while more 'demanding' users and projects with larger scale are suggested to look into Enterprise. For its, there are yearly and monthly options available to users interested in the higher-tier Visual Studio plans.
An annual subscription to Visual Studio Professional costs $539/year while a monthly subscription costs $45/month. For Visual Studio Enterprise, users will pay $2,999/year or $250/month. Subscribers will be able to earn small credits back each month for the yearly tiers, contingent on their.
For a detailed breakdown of the differences between each Visual Studio subscription, including individual licenses, check out the app's new. Currently use VS on win to develop unity apps across web, android, and ios. Wanted to do some dev on my mac at home but would prefer to use a dev env and editor same like what i use at work if possible. Will download the community edition and see how it goes.
Does it support the same plug-ins as the win version? Need the Unity plug-in and resharper. Update: launches incredibly slowly and i don't see any plugins for unity or resharper.
The default empty project they created for cross platform dev when i try running it doesn't seem to work either.