During a virtual launch event today, Microsoft announced that Visual Studio 2019 is now generally available. The new IDE contains a number of new features, such as making it easier to clone a Git repo, and there are improvements for template selection.
There’s also a new feature called Live Share. Live Share lets you collaborate with other developers in real time. Announced at Build 2018 last year, it’s been in preview ever since. Since then, Microsoft has added support for languages like C++ and Python, and it’s started allowing guests to start debugging sessions. Live Share works with both Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code.
This release includes Visual Studio for the Mac.
“Visual Studio for the Mac” is not the real “Visual Studio” but an Visual Studio Code based product, right?
It’s based on Xamarin Studio, which in turn was based on MonoDevelop. It does share (in certain modes?) an editor component with Visual Studio proper though.
Visual Studio Code is separate from both Visual Studio for Windows and for Mac (Xamarin-based one) and is generally mostly the same across platforms.
It’s even bigger mess then…
Is this the patch that adds support for C/C++ on Mac?
It is real Visual Studio 2019 (Windows) that was released. I have it on my work computer right now.