
NET Core 2.0 and this is making many ASP users unhappy. The problem here is that there are many Windows native features that are not available in.

NET Core 2.0 and not the original Windows-only. NET Core 2.0 preview is close to release, as is ASP.NET Core 2.0, but it is now clear that ASP.NET Core 2.0 will only work with. You can also develop programs in all of the languages and for the platforms you would expect - C#, F# Visual Basic for example. You can also share projects across Windows and Mac versions. These are the same prices you would pay for the usual Visual Studio. If the cost of the Enterprise edition seems a bit steep, it is worth saying that it is the cloud-oriented version and includes $150 of Azure credits per month. The Professional costs $539 per year per user and the Enterprise is $2999 per year per user. Now there is a community edition, like the community edition of Visual Studio 2017, and Professional and Enterprise editions which are subscription services. The latest step, taken at Build 2017, is to release the finished version. It looks a lot like Visual Studio, but it isn't. The new Visual Studio for Mac is a rebranded version of Xamarin Studio. Microsoft acquired Xamarin and along with it cam Xamarin Studio, which worked on the Mac.

This sounds like an about face in Microsoft's attitude to the enemy, and indeed it is, but it isn't quite the whole story. Now when you run Visual Studio you are confronted with a range of technologies that makes it hard to believer that the "only ways" are being adequately served.Īn indication of how much things have changed was the announcement of Visual Studio for Mac back in November 2016 and the release of a preview. It was a favorite IDE because it made work easy, but it was also a favorite because it was focused.

NET programming with a side order of Win32 if you really had to. Visual Studio was once a Windows-only IDE and, more than that it was focused on. Visual Studio 2017 for Mac is now in production and this is not something anyone would have predicted only a few years ago.
