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Visual Studio 2015 contains many new and exciting features to support cross-platform mobile development, web and cloud development, IDE productivity enhancements, and more. Visual Studio provides cutting-edge tools and technologies to create apps that take advantage of the latest platforms. Hi, I'm a school student and we use Visual Studio Community 2015 on a PC at school. I'm trying to install the software on my Mac at home (I don't have a PC) to help with some homework and better understand the tool.
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Today at Build Microsoft announced the release of a native Visual Studio application for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Named Visual Studio Code, the company considers to be a “code focused” editor available free of charge to all developers. While part of the Visual Studio family, it has a different feature set than the traditional VS IDE.
VS Code focuses on the following top line features: IntelliSense, built-in debugging, and Git source control integration. IntelliSense support is complemented by Outlining, Find All References, and Go To Definition. The debugging tools include the familiar breakpoints, code stepping, and variable inspection. Thanks to the design of VS Code, additional languages can be supported without changing the application. (According to Microsoft, this functionality will be exposed to end users once documentation is finalized.) This means that while the current version targets ASP.NET development, this is not a permanent restriction and only a result that it is still a preview.
Git support is a big part of the VS Code project, but in order to use this support a local copy of Git will need to be installed on your system. The advantage is that only a single Git instance needs to be configured with the minor inconvenience of requiring a separate install from VS Code. However if Git is already setup on your system, you should be able to install VS Code and use it immediately.
When comparing VS Code to traditional Visual Studio, the biggest difference is that VS Code focuses on being a full featured editor, whereas VS offers a lot more features around projects. VS Code doesn't have new project wizards or solution files. But it does offer responsive editing, and emphasizes the small details like displaying what the type of line endings are used when working on cross-platform files.
VS Code is able to support the big 3 platforms thanks to being built on top of GitHub’s Electron platform. Electron is itself composed of io.js and Chromium. VS Code is written using TypeScript, the Microsoft created language that is built as a superset of JavaScript.
VS Code is currently available in a Preview form for all clients (Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows). Microsoft notes that users are required to accept that crash dumps are automatically sent to Microsoft for review. If users do not agree, Microsoft suggests that they should not download the software.
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Misleading title - consider amending it.
- Your message is awaiting moderation. Thank you for participating in the discussion.As a long time .NET developer and recent mac convert, this is a milestone for Microsoft!
I truly believe this would have never happened under the leadership of Steve Ballmer... too much pride and ego!
I just lost my patience and just gave up on Microsoft after Windows 8 , a Windows Phone with features way behind Iphone and Android and severe limitations on the Windows Phone API, and an overall lack of intuitive UI interface design.
However, Microsoft is not without its merits. They are doing a great job with Azure, Visual Studio and C# and other areas.
I hope to see Microsoft expand its historically Windows centered business model into other areas such as this. This is especially needed in the post mobile world where PC sales are on a decline and Windows Phone Market share is barely 5% of the U.S. market.
Sincerely,
A mobile developer having worked on all 3 mobile platforms.
-Kishore - Your message is awaiting moderation. Thank you for participating in the discussion.It is a webkit+Node application
- Your message is awaiting moderation. Thank you for participating in the discussion.I hope to see Microsoft expand its historically Windows centered business model into other areas such as this.
I truly believe this would have never happened under the leadership of Steve Ballmer... - Your message is awaiting moderation. Thank you for participating in the discussion.Since it isn't 'Visual Studio' for Mac and Linux, it is a new code editor for Mac and Linux (and Windows). Yes, it is a smart, fast code editor with syntax highlighting, true intellisense and refactoring of C# and Typescript code - but it isn't the full on Visual Studio which the title suggests by any means.
- Your message is awaiting moderation. Thank you for participating in the discussion.Visual Studio has been a family of products for quite a while now. Besides Visual Studio Code and the 'full' version of Visual Studio we also have Visual Studio Shell and Visual Studio Online.
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Well the answer is yes you can!
At the Connect() developer event in New York City. We announced a number of new capabilities coming with the Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 5 releases and some exciting news regarding .NET Open Source and Visual Studio Community editions. You can watch the event on-demand here.
But here is a quick summary
Open Sourcing the .NET Core Runtime and Libraries
Open sourcing the .NET Core Runtime. This will include everything needed to execute .NET code – including the CLR, Just-In-Time Compiler (JIT), Garbage Collector (GC), and core .NET base class libraries. We are releasing the source under the MIT open source license and are also issuing an explicit patent promise to clarify users patent rights to .NET. This is published on the public GitHub https://github.com/dotnet/corefx
The source release includes many of the newer core .NET framework libraries (ImmutableCollections, SIMD, XML and MetadataReader). These libraries are fully open, and are ready to accept contributions. Over the next several weeks and months we will continue to transfer source (including the Core CLR which is not there right now but in the process of being moved) into the repository and likewise make it open for contributions.
What does this open sourcing mean?
The open source announcement, simply means that developers will have a fully supported, fully open source, fully cross platform .NET stack for creating server and cloud applications – including everything from the C#/VB compilers, to the CLR runtime, to the core .NET base class libraries, to the higher-level .NET Web, Data and API frameworks.
Announcing .NET Core Framework on Linux and OSX
Last month at a Cloud Event held in San Francisco, Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO – showed a slide like this one where he talked about how Microsoft loves Linux:
We’ve worked hard with Azure to make it a first-class cloud platform for Linux based applications, and shared how more than 20% of all VMs running on Azure are Linux based. In fact, we now have a number different Linux distributions officially supported for use on Azure – with full integration within our management portal and command-line extensibility.
Which now include Ubuntu, CoreOs, Centos, Suse, Oracle Linux and Puppet Labs
Bringing Core .NET to Linux and OS X
![Mac Mac](https://mage2.pro/uploads/default/original/1X/19ae9a510b22b962d473900427e79e7f5d2cf08d.png)
In addition to making the .NET server stack open-source, we are also going to release an official distribution of the .NET Core for Linux, as well as an official distribution of .NET Core for the Mac operation system as well.
This will enable you to build .NET server and cloud applications and run them on both Windows Server and Linux. It is going to enable every developer – regardless of what operating system they use to develop or target – to use .NET. And to do so on a fully open source runtime.
We will be working closely with the Mono community as we complete our Linux port. The Mono community have done a great job advancing .NET and Linux over the last decade. Releasing the .NET Core source under an open source license is going to enable us to collaborate together much more closely going forward.
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Visual Studio Community Edition
A new free edition of Visual Studio - Visual Studio Community 2013 edition is a full-featured IDE. It supports multiple project types in one solution file in a single IDE, and has all of the productivity features and IDE extensibility capabilities (meaning you can use Xamarin, ReSharper, VsVim, and any other VSIX extension) that developers love in Visual Studio.
It is now available completely free for:
- Any individual developer working on a commercial or non-commercial project
- Any developer contributing to an open source project
- Anyone in an academic research or course setting (e.g. students, teachers, classroom, online course)
- Any non-enterprise organization with 5 or fewer developers working on a commercial/non-commercial project together
There is no program you need to join to use it – simply visit www.visualstudio.com, click the download button.
Visual Studio Community Edition Virtual Machine
It is going to enable even more developers to take advantage of Visual Studio and build even better applications. We are looking forward to seeing what you build with it. Additionally if your a Mac User you can now spin up a virtual machine running community connect as part of an Azure.
The Visual Studio Community 2013 image enables you to unleash the full power of Visual Studio to develop cross-platform solutions. Create apps in one unified IDE, and incorporate new languages, features, and development tools into them with Visual Studio Extensions (available in the Visual Studio Gallery).
Pricing Information
Pricing varies based on the subscription you select to provision your virtual machine see http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenario=virtual-machines but as an example you could spin up a D3 Series Windows Virtual Machine with 4 Cores and 14GB Ram with a 250GB SSD drive for 1.42 Euro per hour and simply only pay per the hour by turning the machine off when not required.
Summary
It has never been a better time to be a software developer.
With the provision of FREE Software and Visual Studio Community edition it will now enable organizations to succeed in today’s digital environment.
Using the cloud, every software developer on the planet can now create and build solutions that can reach millions of users, with no upfront costs, powered by a cloud infrastructure that delivers completely global reach. The impact an individual developer can now have has never been greater than it is today.
.NET open source, cross platform, and Visual Studio Community edition announcements will enable the development technology we build to be leveraged by an even wider range of developers and across all mobile platforms
Developers can now use the breadth Microsoft’s tools and services for free with Visual Studio Community 2013 tools for developing applications from mobile and desktop to web and cloud, Azure Free Trial providing hosting for 10 websites + 10 mobile services, and Visual Studio Online offering developer services free for up to 5 users. You can get started with all three offers today.
How To Install Visual Studio 2015 Community
The Event and official announcements
You can watch the online presentations here. Also read Soma’s blog post for a summary of some of the new VS 2015 and .NET 5 capabilities