Microsoft releases Visual Studio for Mac Preview 4 with lots of new features

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2022

Along with the launch of Visual Studio 2017, Microsoft today also released a new preview of Visual Studio for Mac. Visual Studio for Mac Preview 4 with lots of new features. They have updated .NET Core project support, NuGet and mobile tooling improvements, and implemented many bug fixes and performance optimizations. Read about the improvements in detail below.

  • Preview 4 brings expanded project templates for .NET Core, as well as support for the beautiful new MSBuild .NET Core project format.
  • Xamarin workload has been updated to include a new iOS Audio Unit wizard, Android binding project operations, and other mobile tooling improvements.
  • This preview also includes NuGet 4.0 support and tons of other bug fixes and performance improvements.

They have also made many improvements to the Xamarin.Forms Previewer to increase the range of supported controls and XAML constructs in both Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac. Also, Xamarin.Forms XAML documents now provides a significantly improved IntelliSense experience in Visual Studio 2017.

You can download it here from Microsoft.

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