Visual Studio for Mac Roadmap

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This document provides a peek into what's next for Visual Studio for Mac. It captures some of the significant features we are currently committed to, and a rough timeframe for when you can expect to see them. It is not a comprehensive list of all new features in Visual Studio for Mac, but is intended to provide some visibility into our key investments. These feature sets and delivery timeframes are current, and are subject to change.

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2020 Q2 (April-June)

Feature Visual Studio for Mac Version Availability Workloads or Standalone Installer
Support for Blazor WebAssembly projects. 8.6 .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
Drag and drop to set next statment when debugging. 8.6 All Workloads
Support for gRPC service projects. 8.6 .NET Core and ASP.NET Core

2020 Q1 (January-March)

Feature Visual Studio for Mac Version Availability Workloads or Standalone Installer
Support for developing apps with .NET Core 3.1. 8.4 Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
Server-side Blazor support. Support for .razor files. 8.4 Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core Scaffolding support. 8.4 Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
Support for TypeScript 3.7. 8.4 Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
Support to pack .NET Core projects. 8.4 Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
C# editor: Preview window for Quick Fixes and Refactorings. 8.4 Released All Workloads
Reduced app size and improved packaging with Android App Bundle support. 8.4 Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms. 8.4 Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
Azure Functions v3. 8.5 Azure Functions
ASP.NET Core Templates with Authentication 8.5 All Workloads
Enhanced Light and Dark editor themes to match with Visual Studio. 8.5 All Workloads
Integrated Terminal 8.5 All Workloads
Refreshed default & Windows keyboard shortcuts. 8.5 All Workloads

2019 Q3 (July-September)

Feature Visual Studio for Mac Version Availability Workloads or Standalone Installer
C# editor: Automatic namespace importing. 8.2 Released All Workloads
C# editor: IntelliSense type/member filtering. 8.2 Released All Workloads
.NET Core 3.0 Preview SDK support. 8.2 Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
Improved XAML editor support for matching, binding context, and resource IntelliSense, now powered by the same service from Windows. 8.2 Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
Be more productive by using Go-To-Definition and get better XML IntelliSense within Android layouts, resources, and manifest files. 8.2 Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
Migration tooling to take your applications from Android Support Libraries to AndroidX. 8.2 Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
Startup performance improvements up to 50% faster with profiled AOT support (“ahead of time” compilation). 8.2 Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
.NET Core 3.0 SDK support. 8.3 Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
C# 8 language support. 8.3 Released All Workloads
Support for running on macOS Catalina. 8.3 Released All Workloads
Improved interoperability with Git and the Git command line tools. 8.3 Released All Workloads
Debugger reliability and performance improvements. 8.3 Released All Workloads
Prompt to select keyboard bindings on startup. 8.3 Released All Workloads
File tab pinning. 8.3 Released All Workloads
NuGet solution-level package management. 8.3 Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
Editing and building multi-targeted projects. 8.3 Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
Debugging: Launch in target browser. 8.3 Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
launchSettings.json support. 8.3 Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
File nesting for ASP.NET Core projects. 8.3 Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
Port of the web editors from Visual Studio on Windows: Razor Pages, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON. 8.3 Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
Stronger protections for user privacy, new ways to engage users, and extended support for foldables using Android Q Preview Support. 8.3 Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
Xcode 11 and iOS 13 support. 8.3 Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development

2019 Q2 (April-June)

Feature Visual Studio for Mac Version Availability Workloads or Standalone Installer
New macOS native code editor with coding experiences that are shared with Visual Studio on Windows. 8.1 Released All Workloads
Improved performance and reliability of the code editor. 8.1 Released All Workloads
Edit code containing Right-To-Left content. 8.1 Released All Workloads
Word wrap support in the code editor. 8.1 Released All Workloads
Multiple-selection and multi-caret support in the code editor. 8.1 Released All Workloads
C# Editor: Go to Implementation. 8.1 Released All Workloads
ASP.NET Core client-side JavaScript templates for Angular and React.js. 8.1 Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core

2019 Q1 (January-March)

Feature Visual Studio for Mac Version Availability Workloads or Standalone Installer
Quickly open code you recently worked on or start from one of the most commonly used flows like clone, open, or new project. 8.0 Released All Workloads
Create multiple instances of the IDE from the Dock. 8.0 Released All Workloads
Easily configure multiple startup projects with the new Set Startup Projects solution context menu option. 8.0 Released All Workloads
Reduce the number of password prompts on install. 8.0 Released All Workloads
Xamarin.Forms 4.0 & Xamarin.Essentials 1.0 templates and tooling support. 8.0 Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
Xamarin.Android Designer improvements with support for Sample Data. 8.0 Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
Speed up your build and deployment times with our improvements for build and enhanced fast deployment in Xamarin.Android. 8.0 Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
Next-generation Dex Compiler(d8) and Code Shrinker(r8) support in Xamarin.Android. 8.0 Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development

2018 Q4 (October-December)

Feature Visual Studio for Mac Version Availability Workloads or Standalone Installer
Improved performance and reliability of the code editor. 7.7 and higher Released All Workloads
Login and activate Visual Studio for Mac when running behind firewalls and proxies. 7.7 and higher Released All Workloads
Improved IntelliSense with brace completions, smart indenting and lightbulbs. 7.7 and higher Released All Workloads
Publish ASP.NET Core project to a folder. 7.7 and higher Released ASP.NET Core
.NET Core 2.2 support. 7.7 and higher Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
Azure Functions 2.0 support. 7.7 and higher Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
Azure Functions auto-update for tools and templates. 8.0 Released .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
Xamarin.Forms 3.3 with Accessibility Improvements, CSS Improvements, and community contributions. 7.7 and higher Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
Initial Xamarin.Android Build Performance Improvements. 7.7 and higher Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
Xamarin.Forms 4.0 with Shell workflow. 8.0 Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
Xamarin.Forms Previewer improvements. 8.0 Released .NET (Xamarin) Mobile Development
Unity debugger performance and reliability improvements. 8.0 Released Unity Game Development

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