

NET compiler platform, is now in the Visual Studio for Mac editor - making your intellisense as powerful as its big brother on Windows. The C# Editor in Visual Studio for Mac is Completely New But don’t take my word for it: here are five reasons to give Visual Studio for Mac another go! 1. In my opinion, this brings the best of both worlds together. Visual Studio for Mac bears a striking similarity to xCode’s solution navigation feel, but brings the power of VS intellisense and an ability to focus on your code in a much cleaner looking environment. Installation on a Mac is quick, simple, and allows you to get into coding right away - whether you are already familiar or an Apple-only dev getting into something new like Xamarin. Lately, however, the stable release of VS for Mac is really starting to feel like a simple, but luxurious cousin to Visual Studio 2019. The other main enhancement to Razor tooling support is auto-completion for tag helpers, along with tag helper attribute names and values.Visual Studio has not always been as user-friendly on the Mac as it is on a Windows machine. The improved Razor diagnostics, meanwhile, include pointing out errors concerning: floating characters missing end braces and missing end tags in code blocks. Last week, Microsoft announced an update to the extension that boosts Razor tooling support with improved diagnostics and tag helper support, along with giving developers auto-completion for components and component parameters, data binding, event handlers and more. Preview support for both of these is included in the C# for Visual Studio Code extension available in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Razor is a syntax for combining HTML markup with C# code, according to Microsoft documentation, said to boost productivity while allowing developers to switch between markup and C# in the same file while enjoying IntelliSense support such as auto-completion.īlazor is a Microsoft project that just graduated from the experimental stage with a way to leverage WebAssembly - which is still experimental - in order to do client-side and server-side Web development with C#. NET Core initiative that serves as a cross-platform, open source alternative to the ageing, Windows-only.

Razor and Blazor are related as they're both part of ASP.NET Core, the Web-centric component of the. Visual Studio Code now does Blazor development thanks to updated Razor tooling support in a C# extension.
