Just in time for the appearance of .NET 5, Microsoft is also presenting a new release of its development environment for Apple systems. Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.8 is not just completely designed to work with the latest .NET version but also contains some improvements for Xamarin developers and allows debugging of Blazor WebAssembly applications (WASM).

Debugging Blazor WebAssembly With the previous release 8.7 of the IDE, Microsoft made it possible to debug Blazor Server for the first time, and Visual Studio supports 2019 for Mac also includes Blazor WebAssembly apps, so developers can now run their code step-by-step to debug the IDE. It is also possible to set and remove breakpoints and monitor the values ​​of local variables. However, a Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge) is still required for debugging, Apple’s Safari under macOS is not yet supported. Further details on debugging Blazor WebAssembly can be found in the associated documentation.

More performance with .NET 5 Developers who want to create .NET applications are available in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.8 the complete range of functions of .NET 5 is available, including its numerous performance improvements. Garbage collection, pinned object heap and graduated compilation promise more consistent performance. With .NET 5 it will also be possible to accommodate new applications in a single executable and benefit from more compact container image sizes.

Support for version 9 of the C # programming language also promises some simplifications. The possibility of creating simpler programs directly on the top level and being able to do without the boilerplate code previously required provides a better overview. Deviating from the object-oriented approach of C #, records in the latest version also give developers the option of making objects immutable and giving them assign the behavior of values.

betterCode () presents: .NET 5.0 – The online event on December 3rd 2020 You can learn that: From .NET Framework to .NET Core to .NET 5.0: What does this mean for the migration, and how big is the effort? What’s new in. NET 5.0? New features : Get to know ASP.NET Core 5.0 and Blazor 5.0 The most important language innovations in C # 9 Mobile development with .NET 5 OR mapping with Entity Framework Core 5.0 WinUI 3 as an alternative to WPF and UWP Outlook for .NET 6.0 Cross-platform with Xamarin For the cross-platform Development with Xamarin can also be found in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.8 – including support for the preview of Xamarin.Forms 5.0. This includes, among other things, several new control elements and functions for creating user interfaces, such as App Themes (Dark Mode), Brushes, CarouselView, RadioButton, Shapes and Paths as well as SwipeView.

More details on the new version of the IDE and its complete range of functions can be found in the blog post about the release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.8.

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