There is still work to do in that area, but a lot of minor inconveniences have been solved that have annoyed me for just a bit too long.

If we look at the fixed issues you will see a few that have to do with copy-/pasting, indenting and IntelliSense.

There are some minor issues fixed that will make your daily development life easier though. All this goodness is however available for you on Windows in the Visual Studio 2019 preview, so that might be worth checking out as well. That is right no Live Share, no AI-powered IntelliSense with IntelliCode and no property pane for us Mac users. It is actually quite boring: it works mostly the same.Īs far as I know, there are no real big features added just yet, so it just works as you did with the current version. Daily usage of Visual Studio for Mac 2019ĭaily usage is a bit overstated since the version has just been out for some days at the time of writing, but let me tell you a bit about my experience so far. But maybe that is just me and it needs some getting used to. It feels a bit wasteful that I have this whole Retina screen that can be used and instead I now get a small box with just 5 of the latest projects, which in my case were all pinned ones, and I have to scroll to get to the rest. I must say I’m not an immediate fan of the new Welcome Screen. In the Welcome Screen you can also see there are things going on to integrate better with GitHub and Azure DevOps, sounds promising… New Visual Studio for Mac Welcome Screen When starting the new Visual Studio for Mac there are two things you will notice immediately: the new Welcome Screen, you can see it below and a new icon in the Dock. The workload has been brought down to 7.69GB which is two times less than the current stable version. The installation and footprint are much smaller than the previous versions.

Not impossible, but if you have an extra machine lying around, that might make your life a lot easier. To also run a Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Mono, and XCode separately from the rest are a bit trickier. But note, you can only run the Visual Studio instance side-by-side. The installation went pretty smooth! Just head over to the download page, download it and install! The great thing is that you can install it side-by-side with your current Visual Studio for Mac installation. In this post, I will tell you a few things about what stood out at a first glance. This shiny new version has been introduced as part of Microsoft Connect() along with a whole lot of other goodness. To get the Windows and Mac versions more aligned, we now have Visual Studio 2019 preview for both platforms.

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