Microsoft has announced that a public preview for its Visual Studio 2022 will be coming soon. Along with a number of changes and enhancements, the latest app development software will arrive with an all-new Mac version that includes a native UI, improved performance and reliability, support for macOS accessibility features, and more.
Microsoft shared the first public preview of the Visual Studio 2022 IDE will arrive sometime this summer in a blog post today.
Along with increased speed and cleaner design, the app will be 64-bit, more lightweight, and offer a better experience to collaborate remotely.
Visual Studio for Mac version 8.8 or later. Select the option to install.NET Core. Installing Xamarin is optional for.NET development. For more information, see the following resources: Tutorial: Install Visual Studio for Mac. Supported macOS versions.NET versions supported by Visual Studio for Mac. Start Visual Studio for Mac. Visual Studio for Mac Tools for Unity is a free Visual Studio extension that turns Visual Studio for Mac into a powerful tool for developing cross-platform games and apps with the Unity platform. For more information, see Visual Studio Tools for Unity and to get started follow this hands-on lab. Developer Community for Visual Studio Product family. Skip to main content. Visual Studio for Mac.NET. Azure DevOps Server (TFS) 0. Can't open a work item on MacOS Safari. Azure DevOps macos 10.15. Brian Glaeske reported Jun 17, 2020 at 06:36 PM. Hi OrchestraMusic, Welcome to the MSDN forum. Now we have two Visual Studio versions (Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code) that can directly install on the Mac (macOS), refer to your description, it looks like you installed the Visual Studio for Mac, it is a developer environment optimized for building mobile and cloud apps with Xamarin and.NET.
The next major release of Visual Studio will be faster, more approachable, and more lightweight, designed for both learners and those building industrial scale solutions. For the first time ever, Visual Studio will be 64-bit. The user experience will feel cleaner, intelligent, and action oriented.
Development teams have become more geographically dispersed than ever. It’s become apparent over the last year that organizations need their development teams to collaborate securely, deliver solutions more quickly, and continuously improve their end-user satisfaction and value. We’re making it easier to collaborate with better GitHub integration making it seamless to go from idea to code to the cloud.
Specifically for Mac, Visual Studio 2022 brings a whole new native macOS UI, improved performance and reliability, and can leverage all of the operating system’s accessibility features.
Like the Windows version, Visual Studio 2022 for Mac will also come with the new GitHub integration.
Our goal with Visual Studio 2022 for Mac is to make a modern .NET IDE tailored for the Mac that delivers the productive experience you’ve come to love in Visual Studio. We’re working to move Visual Studio for Mac to native macOS UI, which means it will come with better performance and reliability. It also means that Visual Studio for Mac can take full advantage of all the built-in macOS accessibility features. We’re updating the menus and terminology across the IDE to make Visual Studio more consistent between Mac and Windows. The new Git experience from Visual Studio will also be coming to Visual Studio for Mac, beginning with the introduction of the Git Changes tool window.
Microsoft says those are only “a few highlights of our work in progress, but we welcome your initial thoughts on the direction we’re taking for Visual Studio 2022.”
The company hasn’t announced a firm date for when the first public preview will launch but in the meantime, you can check out existing feature requests and also submit your own here.
Visual Studio Mac Review
At the moment, the top three feature requests are color coded tabs, vertical tabs, and Linux support. Read about all the changes coming with Visual Studio 2022 here.
FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.More.
Visual Studio Community For Mac
Note: This extension is still very much a work-in-progress. Please report bugs to the GitHub repository.
Native macOS is a color theme for Visual Studio Code that aims to match native macOS applications as closely as possible. The extension includes four versions - two light and two dark, with a light and a dark editor version for each. You can download it here.
Native macOS - Light Theme
Optional Tweaks
There are a few optional tweaks you can do to really nail down the look of native macOS. The native title bar, for example, really makes a huge difference, and so does the font, SF Mono (you can find that here, if you don't already have it installed). You can easily perform these tweaks by using the command pallette to open settings.json (Shift + Ctrl + P on Windows, Shift + ⌘ + P on Mac) and searching 'Preferences'.
You can also hide the Activity bar and replace it with an extension like Activitus Bar to further the look, and use an extension like Vibrancy to enhance it.
If you'd like, you can also disable the minimap, though I personally prefer to keep mine on for ease of use.
To complete the look, you can also replace the default icon of Visual Studio Code with one of the macOS-themed icons included. icon.png will work on both macOS and Windows, and icon.icns and icon.ico will work exclusively on each one respectively.
To replace the application icon on macOS
Navigate to your applications folder and find Visual Studio Code. Right-click on it, then click 'Get Info'.
Navigate to the Visual Studio Code extensions folder (Users/your-name/.vscode/extensions)1. Find the Native macOS Theme Folder (dsoloha.native-macos-0.0.1), then drag the icon.icns file onto the Info pane, onto the small icon at the top (directly under the title bar).
Restart Visual Studio Code. Remove it from your dock and re-add it, if necessary.
1 If the .vscode folder isn't showing, press Shift + ⌘ + . to show your hidden folders.
To replace the program icon on Windows
Open the directory in which you installed Visual Studio Code (C:usersyour-nameAppDataLocalProgramsMicrosoft VS Code by default). Right-click the VSCode.exe executable, then click Properties, then press the Change Icon button. From here, navigate to the Visual Studio Code extensions directory (%USERPROFILE%.vscodeextensions by default). Double-click on icon.ico.
Restart Visual Studio Code.