{"id":16367,"date":"2016-11-14T14:40:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T19:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16367"},"modified":"2016-11-17T10:33:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T15:33:01","slug":"microsoft-visual-studio-coming-to-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/14\/microsoft-visual-studio-coming-to-the-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Visual Studio Coming to the Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2016\/11\/14\/visual-studio-for-mac\/\">Ben Lovejoy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2016\/11\/14\/visual-studio-for-mac\/\"><p>Microsoft is hoping to persuade more developers to create Windows apps by bringing its main coding environment &#8211; Visual Studio &#8211; to the Mac for the first time. Previously, developers had to use a Windows machine or run a virtual machine on a Mac to write Windows software.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The company said that the Mac version uses the same under-the-hood tools of the Roslyn Compiler Platform and MSBuild, and it seemingly leans heavily on app development platform Xamarin Studio. It supports both C# and F# languages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rosyna\/status\/798209793764622337\">Rosyna Keller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rosyna\/status\/798209793764622337\"><p>Visual Studio for Mac is to Visual Studio as Access is to SQL Server&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/microsoft-visual-studio-code\/\">Microsoft Visual Studio Code<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2016-11-17): Here&rsquo;s Microsoft&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/vs\/visual-studio-mac\/\">preview page<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=12967847\">Hacker News<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Lovejoy: Microsoft is hoping to persuade more developers to create Windows apps by bringing its main coding environment &#8211; Visual Studio &#8211; to the Mac for the first time. Previously, developers had to use a Windows machine or run a virtual machine on a Mac to write Windows software. [&#8230;] The company said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[351,75,30,32,1381,37,1442,848,219],"class_list":["post-16367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-c-sharp","tag-developertool","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-12","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-visual-studio","tag-roslyn","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16410,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16367\/revisions\/16410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}