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Microsoft Build 2018: New releases for Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac,.NET Core and Xamarin.Forms May 7, 2018 May 8, 2018 by Visual Studio Blog // 0 Comments Share. Visual Studio for Mac has all the features of Xamarin Studio, and much more! You can now delete the Xamarin Studio app from your machine. I've been a VS developer for years on Windows and still use it for server-side development. The just-released second Visual Studio 2017 15.6 preview continues to ease the previously cumbersome experience of hooking up to Mac machines for iOS development using Xamarin. While Microsoft has shipped the Visual Studio for Mac IDE, it also has steadily been trying to improve the iOS/Xamarin.

Ever since I commercialised MFractor in June 2017, I've been pulled to the idea of using XAML and Xamarin.Forms to build user interfaces for Visual Studio Mac extensions.

For MFractor, developing tools like the Image Wizard or Localisation Wizard cost days to weeks of engineering effort. As a bootstrapped business, this time-cost makes it prohibitively expensive to develop tools that are UI-centric.

Therefore, there are compelling reasons to use Xamarin.Forms to build Visual Studio Mac extensions:

• XAML is much, much easier to work with than XWT, Visual Studio Macs UI framework. This dramatically lowers the barrier to entry for developing Visual Studio Mac extensions.
• We can use code and can also make use of value converters, triggers and behaviours.
• With a Xamarin.Forms WPF backend available, user interfaces are reusable in both Visual Studio MacandVisual Studio Windows.
• By using XAML to build MFractors UIs, I can use MFractor to build itself; an awesome process of dogfooding to accelerate product development.

Difference Between Xamarin Studio And Visual Studio For Mac

There are huge productivity gains here!

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To prove that this technique is valid for production-ready tooling and is not just a toy, we'll be building an image asset browser you can use to visually explore images inside a solution:

So, read on to learn how to use Xamarin.Forms inside Visual Studio Mac to build rich user interfaces for your tooling.

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This week, James is joined once again by friend of the show Dan Siegel, Microsoft MVP, who shows off his latest creation, Prism Template Studio & Developer Toolkit for Visual Studio for Mac. This toolkit has great quick-start templates when using Prim for applications, but also has a bunch of great developer productivity features such as connecting to App Center and easily adding NuGet packages when creating a project.

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