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Today is one of those awesome days if you are building stuff on.NET platform. Microsoft announced bunch of stuff at keynote a few hours ago and one of them is, a free and stripped down version of Visual Studio which works on,. It leverages bunch of existing open source software like,. Most of all, this was my #bldwin wish:) Changing my mind, my wish announcement: VS for Mac.— Tugberk Ugurlu (@tourismgeek) First of all, you should definitely install Visual Studio Code and start checking the which is very extensive. I followed those steps and as I am very excited about this new tool, I wanted to share my experience thus far which is not much but very promising. First thing I noticed was the top notch support for.
Is pretty good but some features are not highlighted there. For example, you are getting the IntelliSense for dependencies: When you add a dependency, you get nice notification telling that you should restore: Pretty nice! So, how would you restore? Hit ⇧⌘P to get up and you can see the restore command there: It will run the restore inside the terminal: You can also: Obviously, you can.
Is also very slick! You currently don’t have all the nice refactoring features you have in full fledged Visual Studio but it’s still impressive: We even have some advanced stuff like: Check out. As mentioned Windows is also fully supported as you might guess:) I want to touch on the as well.
I generally use Git bash and this won’t change for me but having the diff view inside the editor in a very nice way is priceless! How about old/current.NET applications? I managed to get one up and running easily and managed to get the build working by for that.
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I doubt we will see the full Visual Studio on Mac and Linux, because it's built on WPF. WPF was never implemented in Mono, and there does not seem to be any plans from Microsoft to port it to.NET Core. I had been wondering about that when they annouced support in ASP.NET 5 for Mac and Linux. I think a lightweight tool like VSCode is a great idea. I bet the agenda here is to seduce developers from the OpenSource world (and keep the existing.NET developers), and they tend to use lightweight code editors and the command line (see the Ruby on Rails, Python and Node.js stacks).
ASP.NET 5 and VSCode fit perfectly. Reusing the existing tools like Yeoman for scaffolding ASP.NET 5 apps was a brilliant idea. Why reinvent the wheel after all? Personnally, as a.NET developer but a Linux fan, I've wanted the possibility of programming ASP.NET apps in Linux for a long time, but Mono and Monodevelop were never up to it. I've been dabbling with Node.js, and the new editor and command-line tools make me feel right at home. I'll be eagerly waiting for ASP.NET debugging support.