'The core of the IDE definitely has a heritage in Xamarin Studio, but this release has brought in so much more with. That means 'desktop app' development will target macOS and Visual Studio (on Windows) can be used to target Windows. VS for Mac Product Manager Rajen Kishna replied: 'Our goal with Visual Studio for Mac is to create a native IDE for Mac users with workloads that make sense on macOS. Even the tagline is deceptive: 'The IDE you love, now on the Mac.''

One typical reader comment on Hacker News said: 'I find the naming 'Visual Studio for Mac' pretty deceptive, since apparently it is not anything like the win32 VS environment, but instead based on Xamarin Studio. And, showing just how much Microsoft is listening to its developer community, de Icaza and another exec chimed in with clarifying comments.

NET and C#, and bringing the Visual Studio development experience to the Mac.'Įven though Microsoft was clear about the Xamarin Studio-based origins of the Mac-based IDE, many developers on Hacker News and the Reddit programming section questioned the inclusion of the Visual Studio brand with the new product. At its Connect() 2016 conference last November, Microsoft announced a preview of Visual Studio for Mac, saying it was 'evolving the mobile-centric Xamarin Studio IDE into a true mobile-first, cloud-first development tool for.

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