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[Guest Post] Visual Studio for Mac Helps You Write Tests

January 13, 2021 Jan 13, 2021 01/13/21
benday
You’re writing tests for your code, right? No? Just say ‘yes’. It’ll make this blog post go a lot easier. So anyway, I’m happy to hear that you’re writing tests for all your code. Whether you’re following the “test first” / Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach or whether you’re just writing some unit tests or integration ...

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.7 is now available

August 5, 2020 Aug 5, 2020 08/5/20
Jon Galloway
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.7 is available today and includes support for gRPC / OpenAPI client generation and improved unit testing integration. Additionally, it includes several improvements for Xamarin developers, including Xamarin.Forms 4.8 Support. This release also includes initial support for macOS Big Sur, with the exception ...

Creating and Packaging a .NET Standard library

April 22, 2020 Apr 22, 2020 04/22/20
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
In this post we will cover how you can create a .NET Standard library and then share that with other developers via NuGet. We will be demonstrating this with Visual Studio for Mac, but you can also follow along with Visual Studio, or Visual Studio Code when using the dotnet CLI. If you are on macOS, and haven’t already download Visual Studio...