- This course introduces Visual Studio developers to Visual Studio development on a Mac. Apple Macs are consistently rated as the best laptops available and over the years Macs have become very popular at the enterprise level, an area previously dominated by Windows machines.
- Microsoft Visual Studio Code: a mini-review after 7 days. Announcing Visual Studio Code – Code editing redefined. Mac OS X, Linux & Windows. Then there are.
Installation
Visual Studio Code for Mac/Linux seems for someone who has been using Mac/Linux for a long time, not really for someone who moves from Windows to the other platform. The concept is still a little bit confusion and documentation is not really clear or enough.
- Download Visual Studio Code for macOS.
- Double-click on the downloaded archive to expand the contents.
- Drag
Visual Studio Code.app
to theApplications
folder, making it available in theLaunchpad
. - Add VS Code to your Dock by right-clicking on the icon to bring up the context menu and choosing Options, Keep in Dock.
Launching from the command line
Visual Studio
You can also run VS Code from the terminal by typing 'code' after adding it to the path:
- Launch VS Code.
- Open the Command Palette (⇧⌘P (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+P)) and type 'shell command' to find the Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH command.
- Restart the terminal for the new
$PATH
value to take effect. You'll be able to type 'code .' in any folder to start editing files in that folder.
Note: If you still have the old
code
alias in your .bash_profile
(or equivalent) from an early VS Code version, remove it and replace it by executing the Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH command.To manually add VS Code to your path, you can run the following commands:
Start a new terminal to pick up your
.bash_profile
changes.Note: The leading slash
is required to prevent $PATH
from expanding during the concatenation. Remove the leading slash if you want to run the export command directly in a terminal.Touch Bar support
Out of the box VS Code adds actions to navigate in editor history as well as the full Debug tool bar to control the debugger on your Touch Bar:
Mojave privacy protections
After upgrading to macOS Mojave version, you may see dialogs saying 'Visual Studio Code would like to access your {calendar/contacts/photos}.' This is due to the new privacy protections in Mojave and is not specific to VS Code. The same dialogs may be displayed when running other applications as well. The dialog is shown once for each type of personal data and it is fine to choose Don't Allow since VS Code does not need access to those folders. You can read a more detailed explanation in this blog post.
Updates
VS Code ships monthly releases and supports auto-update when a new release is available. If you're prompted by VS Code, accept the newest update and it will get installed (you won't need to do anything else to get the latest bits).
Note: You can disable auto-update if you prefer to update VS Code on your own schedule.
Preferences menu
You can configure VS Code through settings, color themes, and custom keybindings and you will often see mention of the File > Preferences menu group. On a macOS, the Preferences menu group is under Code, not File.
Next steps
Once you have installed VS Code, these topics will help you learn more about VS Code:
- Additional Components - Learn how to install Git, Node.js, TypeScript, and tools like Yeoman.
- User Interface - A quick orientation around VS Code.
- User/Workspace Settings - Learn how to configure VS Code to your preferences settings.
Common questions
Why do I see 'Visual Studio Code would like access to your calendar.'
If you are running macOS Mojave version, you may see dialogs saying 'Visual Studio Code would like to access your {calendar/contacts/photos}.' This is due to the new privacy protections in Mojave discussed above. It is fine to choose Don't Allow since VS Code does not need access to those folders.
Microsoft recently announced plans to launch Visual Studio for Mac, something it revealed in a blog post that was deleted a short while after it went live. Though the announcement appears to have been made prematurely, all the details are now public and it seems the preview will arrive during the company’s Connect developer event. Once it does, the days of Mac users having to use a Windows or virtual machine to run the software will officially end.
Visual Studio 2017 For Mac Reviews
Though the original blog post has been deleted, the Internet never forgets and you can see the post yourself via this cached version. Microsoft included numerous screenshots of the software, one of which is below, while explaining that the Mac version won’t be far removed from the Windows version.
“At its heart,” Microsoft said, “Visual Studio for Mac is a macOS counterpart of the Windows version of Visual Studio.” The Mac version’s user experience has been designed in such a way that it will ‘look and feel’ like a native macOS application, but with the same undertones you’ll find in the Windows version. And, of course, there’s still Visual Studio Code as a more lightweight option.
Microsoft says you won’t have to convert or migrate products if you switch between Windows and Mac machines, and you’ll be able to ‘seamlessly share’ your projects from the macOS version to other users who run the Windows version. The preview version of the software will support C# and F# with the same F# compiler found in VS for Windows. Once the software is officially unveiled, you’ll be able to download the macOS preview from VisualStudio.com.
SOURCE: Microsoft