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Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 4 is now available

December 11, 2019 Dec 11, 2019 12/11/19
Dominic Nahous
Today, we released Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 4. This preview version of Visual Studio for Mac brings support for the latest stable version of .NET Core, Scaffolding support for ASP.NET Core projects, and additional improvements to overall product accessibility. Developers using Xamarin Pair to Mac should also look at the ...

.NET Core Support and More in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 – Update Now!

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19
Jacqueline Widdis
As we continue to deliver on our mission of any developer, any app, any platform, it's always an exciting time on the Visual Studio team when we get to launch major features.  Today we've released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 which contains support for the release of .NET Core 3.0, significant C++ improvements, and great updates for ...

The PowerShell you know and love now with a side of Visual Studio

August 20, 2019 Aug 20, 2019 08/20/19
Ruben Rios
While we know that many of you enjoy, and rely on the Visual Studio Command Prompt, some of you told us that you would prefer to have a PowerShell version of the tool. We are happy to share that in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2, we added a new Developer PowerShell! Using the new Developer PowerShell We also added two new menu entries, ...

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 Released!

August 13, 2019 Aug 13, 2019 08/13/19
Jacqueline Widdis
Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 are available. Because many of the features in this release are a response to Developer Community feedback, we are excited to share our changes. First of all, the latest Preview versions both PC and Mac are available to download from VisualStudio.com. You can ...