In the meanwhile, Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2017 for Windows as a release candidate in Community, Professional, and Enterprise editions. What this means of course is what Microsoft is launching is very different from Visual Studio available on Windows, with the latter being a more capable product. The California-based maker of this software, Xamarin, was acquired by Microsoft early this year. Notably, it will not let Mac users develop for Windows.īut as reported earlier this week by Ars Technica, this isn’t the actual Visual Studio that’s coming to macOS, but rather a re-branded version of Xamarin Studio, a cross-platform C# development environment. The preview version, now available for download from Microsoft's website, will let developers build native apps for cloud, iOS, Android, and macOS, using C#, a general-purpose object-oriented language developed by Microsoft. On Wednesday at the Microsoft Connect() 2016 conference in New York, a Mac version of the suite was unveiled as tipped by leaked documents earlier this week.
Since Visual Studio 2015, developers are also able to create apps for Android, iOS, macOS, and Linux, apart from Windows. Microsoft Visual Studio is a well-known Integrated Development Environment (IDE), primarily used to develop applications for the company’s Windows operating system as well as websites and Web-based apps.
