Quickly learn how to get the most out of the Visual Studio for Mac integrated development environment (IDE).Microsoft has invested heavily to deliver their very best development tools and platforms to other operating systems. Visual Studio for Mac is a powerful developer tool that reinforces Microsoft¿s ¿mobile-first¿, ¿cloud-first¿, and ¿any developer, any platform, any device¿ strategy. With the author's guided expertise and extensive code samples, you will understand how to leverage the most useful tools in Visual Studio for Mac, the code editor, and the powerful debugger. You also will appreciate the author's guidance on collaborating with other team members using integrated tooling for the Git source control engine.Whether you are a Mac developer interested in cross-platform development or a Windows developer using a Mac, Beginning Visual Studio for Mac will quickly get you up to speed!What You'll LearnPrepare, configure, and debug in the Mac development environmentCreate cross-platform mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Windows with Xamarin and C# in Visual Studio for MacBuild cross-platform Web applications with .NET Core using Visual Studio for MacCustomize your productive and collaborative development environmentWho This Book Is ForSoftware developers using a Mac computer who want to build mobile or web applications that run on multiple operating systems

Teaches you how to use the powerful and robust Visual Studio integrated development environment on the Mac

PART 1 - Preparing for development.- Chapter 1:Configuring the Mac development machine.- Chapter 2:Getting started with the IDE and with projects.- Chapter 3:Debugging Applications.- PART 2 - Building Mobile Apps with Xamarin.- Chapter 4:Introducing Xamarin.- Chapter 5:Building Android applications.- Chapter 6:Building iOS applications.- Chapter 7:Building cross-platform apps with Xamarin.Forms.- Chapter 8:Platform-specific code in Xamarin.Forms.- PART 3 - Building cross-platform Applications with .NET Core.- Chapter 9:Introducing .NET Core.- Chapter 10:Creating ASP.NET Core Web applications.- Chapter 11:Creating RESTful Web API services.- PART 4 - COLLABORATION AND PRODUCTIVITY.- Chapter 12:Team Collaboration: Version Control with Git.- Chapter 13:A deeper look at the IDE.