Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.4 has been released as open New Year's first version 8.4 introduces many exciting enhancements. Many of them are voices from the community, including:
- .NET Core 3.1 supports the latest stable version
- Scaffolding provides support for ASP.NET Core Project
- It provides the ability to develop and publish ASP.NET Core Blazor server applications
- Improved editing experience, including support for .razor files
- IDE using the improved experience of the use of assistive technology
- Packaged support for .NET Core library project
Support for .NET Core 3.1
This release adds full support for .NET Core 3.1, developers will be able to create .NET Core 3.1 applications, and can use them to build and debug from release. .NET Core 3.1 is a Long Term Support (LTS), the official will provide technical support for three years.
For more information about the .NET Core 3.1, please click here to view .
Use ASP.NET Core scaffolding faster development
Sound advice from the community to add ASP.NET Core scaffolding to Visual Studio for Mac, officially accepted the proposal and introduced into the 8.4 version. By generating a common scheme boilerplate code, the scaffolding can accelerate and simplify the development of ASP.NET Core applications.
Below is the use of a ASP.NET Core sample project (movie database application) to demonstrate the practical application of scaffolding. It is used here to create a new feature used to create, read, update and delete pages operations (CRUD) and the model used in the film "Details" page.
For more information about ASP.NET Core project scaffolding, please click here to view .
Generating and distributing ASP.NET Core Blazor server applications
This feature is also demand from community feedback, Blazor use .NET is a framework for building interactive Web UI client, it has the following advantages:
- Use C # instead of JavaScript to write interactive Web UI
- Existing .NET ecosystem by using .NET libraries
- Application logic shared between the server and the client
- The use of performance, reliability and security of .NET
- Built on a common set of easy-to-use, stable and feature-rich languages, frameworks, and tools
Blazor use of open Web standards, no other plug-ins or transcoding, which means anything it developed can be used on a PC or mobile device all modern Web browsers. For more information about Blazor, please click here to view .
When using Blazor applications, will be used .razor file. When these files in an editor, Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.4 offers full support for the code highlighting and auto-completion.
For more information about this release, please see the release notes .