What's new in Visual Studio for Mac for .NET Developers

Editor's Notes

• #3: Over the past few years, we’ve seen increasing speed at which new technologies emerge each of which comes with domain specific frameworks, tools, and services. While this enables developers to build anything they want, it also translates into an increase in complexity and less time to learn each technology deeply. Developers are expected to become polyglots, spanning back-end and front-end / client development. This often means they need work in multiple programming languages and a diverse set of frameworks. Most recently, more solutions are expected to integrate artificial intelligence adding further complexity as developers attempt to master Machine Learning. Furthermore, modern app development requires knowledge of a variety of deployment mechanisms. Whether its containers, microservices, or serverless architecture (or all of them), developers have to design for multiple user experiences as application end-points, be that mobile, IoT, or other devices, chat bots, augmented reality, and more.
• #4: With Visual Studio, our mission is to empower developers and accelerate development teams. Today, the Visual Studio name stands for SO much more than it ever has before. The core of our vision is to provide “best-in-class tools and services for any developer, building any app, for and on any platform”, so over the past few years in particular, we have really expanded the product family quite a bit to match that vision. Now we have: A cockpit style IDE for both PC and Mac dev machines Which enables developers to develop any app and target any platform they wish (Mobile, Cloud, Web, Desktop, IoT) Visual Studio Code as our cross-platform, lightweight code editor. And developer services like GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Visual Studio App Center to complement the IDEs & editors to complete the full application lifecycle. Whether you’re developing for Windows, Mac or Linux, Android or iOS, all of these developer tools make Azure just sing. Today we’re focusing on Visual Studio for Mac which we’ve put a lot of energy into. Visual Studio for Mac is for C# developers who feel at home in the Mac OS. If you’ve checked it out before – we think it’s time to take another look.
• #5: Over the past year, we’ve focused on helping developers write better code, faster. We know it’s critically important that developers keep their focus on the code. We’ve removed distractions in the UI making the user experience more streamlined. For example, when you launch Visual Studio 2019 for Mac, you’ll be presented with a new start window, which is optimized to get you to your code faster. Developers will also find a new search experience in Visual Studio 2019 Mac, enabling them to find everything from a single place. The goal with these improvements is to reduce the amount of context switching you have to do, so you can stay in the zone. Cleaning up and refactoring code is better than ever to help you comply with the coding standards that have been set by the team. We want you to spend less time on the tedious, menial, and repetitive and more time thinking about the code that’s unique to your solution. We have integrated Git and have designed the IDE to feel native to the Cocoa UI with integration for the macOS assistive tech.
• #6: But you should absolutely customize it so it’s tuned for your optimal productivity. You can integrate custom themes so you feel at home with your own key bindings and full support for custom fonts and ligatures.
• #7: And with your feedback, we’re continuously improving the product. With 8.1, we introduced a new macOS native C# editor so it has support for word wrapping, the best Intellisense experience yet, glyphs and more.
• #8: With 8.2, we continued to improve the editor and improved startup performance significantly.
• #9: With 8.3, we introduced support for .NET Core 3.0 and C# 8 – ensuring that you have great compatibility with your colleagues on VS for Windows. We also improved debugger reliability and performance.
• #10: 8.4 was a big release - .NET Core 3.1 - Server-side Blazor support - Support for .razor files - ASP.NET Core templates with support for Authentication out the box - And we continually work on improving the developer inner loop with XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin
• #11: In 8.5 we added support for Azure Functions v3 as well as SPA templates with Authentication.
• #12: And coming in May – with our 8.6 release, we’ll introduce support for Blazor WebAssembly, gRPC which is popular for microservices architectures, and support for an Integrated Terminal – so even less context switching.
• #13: These stats show performance and reliability improvements when compared to Visual Studio 2017 for Mac Overall these releases, we’ve continually improved the performance and reliability of the product. - We’ve cut hangs by 50% - Have a 200% improvement in the responsiveness of context menus - Reduced unhealthy sessions by 25% - And we’ve improved IntelliSense performance by 400%
• #14: So why Visual Studio for Mac? It’s the best C# / ASP.NET editor native to the MacOS. - You get better battery life - A native MacOS look and feel - Better integration with MacOS accessibility - The full IDE experience - And it’s optimized for .NET core workloads
• #17: You can build anything with .NET. We’ve made significant investments in .NET over the years as well as unifying the ecosystem to support building literally anything. From desktop to gaming to the cloud, .NET is a general purpose programming platform that enables all kinds of application scenarios. Once you learn one, you can easily pick up another.
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• #19: Amazing developers like you have built incredible software with .NET for millions of companies around the world, in every industry. Here’s just a few. You can read their stories on our dot.net website. <CLICK> Customer notes (optional to call out here. Suggest keep it quick) Setpoint Medical: As a 35-person startup company, SetPoint Medical is a pioneer in bioelectronic medicine and has developed an implantable electronic therapy for treatment of chronic autoimmune diseases. This field has the potential to disrupt the pharma industry by eliminating drug treatments and side effects for these diseases. They build implantable medical devices used to treat the symptoms of a variety of autoimmune disorders, including Rheumatoid Arthritis, Chron’s Disease, and even Multiple Sclerosis. They use WPF for their test infrastructure and applications. Moving to .NET Core 3.0 allowed them to take advantage of Windows 10 Bluetooth stack which dramatically simplified their application and helped them achieve regulatory compliance from the US government. UPS: (everyone knows UPS) UPS Mobile app—has improved customer experience and nearly halved the amount of code, compared with the previous platform-specific versions. Developers quickly brought the app to market using Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin. Siemens Healthineers: Siemens Healthineers is leading the digitalization of healthcare by helping health providers and solution developers bring more value to the delivery of care, ultimately improving the quality of insights derived from healthcare data. Siemens Healthineers uses Microsoft Azure to make solutions more accessible, and it uses Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and .NET Core for a fast, efficient, and competitive development pipeline. Evolution Software: Evolution Software Design, Inc. is a consulting firm that helps other organizations apply technology more effectively through strategic technology solutions and by developing healthcare, e-commerce, agriculture, and enterprise applications. One of the company's recent ventures is in the hazelnut industry, partnering with various hazelnut processing companies to improve the quality of hazelnuts from farm to consumer using machine learning and ML.NET. Evolution Software uses ML.NET to predict moisture levels of hazelnuts during the commercial drying process and alerts operators when they reach the ideal level.
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• #39: Blazor is a new client-side web UI framework based on .NET and C# instead of JavaScript.   .NET has always had great support for building server-rendered web apps with ASP.NET, where your .NET code runs on the server and generates HTML & JSON responses. But if you ever wanted to add some client-side functionality to your web app that runs in the browser on the user's device, that meant you had to write some JavaScript.   Well, not anymore! Blazor enables full-stack web development with .NET using only open web standards. .NET Core 3.0 ships support for Blazor Server apps, which enables you to handle client-side UI interactions over a real-time SignalR connection. And in the near future with Blazor WebAssembly you'll be able to run your .NET code directly in the browser on WebAssembly-based .NET runtime.