Microsoft announced that Visual Studio will be available for the Mac for the first time. Visual Studio for Mac is a place to create apps for the web, iOS, Android, and wearables using the C# programming language. For now, Mac developers can be able to get a glimpse of the other side.

The Visual Studio 2017 And Everything You Should Know
Visual Studio 2017 is the official name of the product Microsoft has been calling "Visual Studio Next" and/or codename "VS '15' As of today, almost complete Release Candidate version of that product is available to testers. The RC includes a few brand-new features but is nearly-final at this time. The company has announced that it's working on Visual Studio for Mac -- yes, one of the backbones of the Windows world is on its way to Apple's.This isn't really planned for Windows development (you'd need Boot Camp or a virtual machine to run your creations), but you can write Android, iOS and Mac apps (thanks to Xamarin) as well as server software through .NET Core. And most significantly, Mac and Windows users can take part on projects. You won't have to alter your work just to make sure that everybody on your team can be able to use it. Visual Studio Mobile Center is a gateway that is meant to help developers build, test, distribute, and monitor apps built in Objective-C, also with Swift, Java, Xamarin, and React Native for Android, iOS, and comes with Windows devices too.

The Availability Version Of Visual Studio 2017 Would Be Out In Early 2017

Since Visual Studio for Mac uses the same MSBuild solution and project scheme as Visual Studio, developers working on Mac and Windows can share projects between Mac and Windows transparently. The Microsoft Connect 2016 developer conference is set to run at the end of this week, from November 16-18, so an official statement from Microsoft about Visual Studio on the Mac is likely to happen sometime during the event.