<story><title>Visual Studio for Mac</title><url>https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x0</author><text>I find the naming &amp;quot;Visual Studio for Mac&amp;quot; pretty deceptive, since apparently it is not anything like the win32 VS environment, but instead based on Xamarin Studio. Even the tagline is deceptive: &amp;quot;The IDE you love, now on the Mac&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I would guess this won&amp;#x27;t let you build&amp;#x2F;debug win32 or winforms or wpf applications, or install any .vsix extensions from the visual studio marketplace (of which there are lots of useful ones, such as this one to manage translations - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&amp;#x2F;items?itemName=TomEnglert.ResXManager&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&amp;#x2F;items?itemName=TomEngle...&lt;/a&gt; ) - correct me if I&amp;#x27;m wrong, but if I can&amp;#x27;t install my .vsix extensions, this is not &amp;quot;the IDE you love, now on the Mac&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RajenK</author><text>Hi, Rajen Kishna here, Product Manager on Visual Studio for Mac. Our goal with Visual Studio for Mac is to create a native IDE for Mac users with workloads that make sense on macOS. That means &amp;quot;desktop app&amp;quot; development will target macOS and Visual Studio (on Windows) can be used to target Windows.&lt;p&gt;The core of the IDE definitely has a heritage in Xamarin Studio, but this release has brought in so much more with .NET Core&amp;#x2F;ASP.NET Core development for web apps&amp;#x2F;services, Unity support for game development and cloud integration with directly publishing your web apps&amp;#x2F;services and previews of Docker and Azure Functions coming very soon.&lt;p&gt;Extensions is definitely another area we&amp;#x27;re looking to align more over time. Currently, there is an extensions framework, but you&amp;#x27;re right that it&amp;#x27;s different from the one used on Windows.&lt;p&gt;Definitely keep the feedback coming, we&amp;#x27;re listening and looking to act and prioritize accordingly!</text></comment>
<story><title>Visual Studio for Mac</title><url>https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>0x0</author><text>I find the naming &amp;quot;Visual Studio for Mac&amp;quot; pretty deceptive, since apparently it is not anything like the win32 VS environment, but instead based on Xamarin Studio. Even the tagline is deceptive: &amp;quot;The IDE you love, now on the Mac&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I would guess this won&amp;#x27;t let you build&amp;#x2F;debug win32 or winforms or wpf applications, or install any .vsix extensions from the visual studio marketplace (of which there are lots of useful ones, such as this one to manage translations - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&amp;#x2F;items?itemName=TomEnglert.ResXManager&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&amp;#x2F;items?itemName=TomEngle...&lt;/a&gt; ) - correct me if I&amp;#x27;m wrong, but if I can&amp;#x27;t install my .vsix extensions, this is not &amp;quot;the IDE you love, now on the Mac&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>criddell</author><text>Microsoft is the worst at naming things.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  * when .Net first come out, everything was suddenly .Net
  * for a while, everything was Live
  * they had two technologies called Win RT
  * they pick names already in use by others (Metro, Skydrive)
  * Visual Studio Code? It&amp;#x27;s not Visual Studio
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Sometimes they do a good job:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  * Edge
  * Xenix
  * Azure
  * XBox
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
&amp;quot;Surface&amp;quot; started out pretty strong, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure it means much anymore.</text></comment>