Visual Studio for Mac fourth pre-

Microsoft releases visual Studio for Mac fourth preview

Last November, Microsoft released the first preview version of Visual Studio for Mac, and promised more functionality for the next few months. Today, with the official release of Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio for Mac also ushered in a fourth preview version. Miguel de Icaza of the Xamarin team explains that "Visual Studio for Mac Preview 4 adds a number of new features, including updates to Xamarin and. NET Core workloads."

He added:

Visual Studio for Mac Preview 4 also extends the. NET core project template and supports the beautiful new MSBuild. NET core project format;

The Xamarin workload update introduces improvements in the new IOS Audio Unit Wizard, Android bound project operations, and other mobile tools;

In addition, the preview version supports NuGet 4.0, fixes a number of bugs, and brings many performance improvements.

As with VS 2017, MAC Preview 4 brings enhancements to the xamarin.forms preview and new and updated development templates: "We've revamped all IOS, WatchOS, TvOS templates, and a range of new extensions to make development easier".

There is also a new connectivity service (Connected services) that simplifies cloud-based access, with the latest SDKs for major mainstream platforms (including Android 7.1 Nougat, IOS 10.2, and WatchOS 3).

Here are some other key changes to Visual Studio for Mac Preview 4:

Includes all new features to fix bugs including Xamarin Studio 6.3;

MSBuild is now the default replacement for Xbuild;

Portable and embedded compilation options are now available in detail;

optimization, memory utilization and performance improvements in an integrated development environment.

For full release notes, see the Xamarin website:

https://developer.xamarin.com/releases/vs-mac/preview/vs-mac-preview1/

Visual Studio for Mac Preview 4:

Https://dl.xamarin.com/VsMacInstaller/VisualStudioforMacPreviewInstaller.dmg

Visual Studio for Mac fourth pre-