As part of our goal to make the developer experience more consistent between Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac, we’ve made changes to menus and terminology across the IDE. The updates to Visual Studio for Mac’s UI aren’t just visual.

Some of the most visible changes include a footer status bar, new tab model for documents/tool window, and refreshed light & dark themes.Ī more familiar experience for Visual Studio users

We’ve introduced a new look and feel in Visual Studio for Mac that combines the modern macOS UI with the productive experience you’ve come to know and love in Visual Studio. The video below gives you a quick feel for some of the improvements made to improve the speed and fluidity of the UI. NET developers use to build applications for the web. Some of the biggest improvements for accessibility include support for new High Contrast themes and a more intuitive experience with VoiceOver. In this initial preview release, we’re giving you a glimpse at the IDE and have focused on the main features. An added benefit of using native macOS UI is that the IDE works more smoothly with macOS’s built in assistive technologies.

We’re moving Visual Studio for Mac to native macOS UI, which will fix over 100 previously reported issues related to performance, reliability, and product quality. A fast and fluid experience, for everyone This update affects every part of Visual Studio for Mac, so the scope is much bigger than our usual previews. With these major investments, we are setting the stage to deliver improved stability and performance in the final release. Visual Studio 2022’s fully native UI is the result of an engineering effort that included substantial changes to the UI layer with a focus on some key technical internals. With this private preview, we’d like to share our new native macOS UI and hear from you about what we got right and where we need to keep iterating. Updating the experience to feel more familiar between Mac and Windows.Taking advantage of more of macOS’s built-in accessibility features.Improving IDE performance and reducing crashes with a new fast and fluid native macOS UI.NET IDE tailored for the Mac that delivers the productive experience you’ve come to love in Visual Studio. Our goal with Visual Studio 2022 for Mac is to make a modern.

The Visual Studio 2022 for Mac preview can be installed side-by-side with earlier versions of Visual Studio for Mac and is free to use.

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