Visual Studio Code with Xamarin on a Mac

Microsoft just announced a new cross-platform editor that has many of the features of Visual Studio called Visual Studio Code. I downloaded it on my Mac to try out with a Xamarin.iOS project and see if it works. I was pleased discover it works out of the box (as far as I can tell on a first look).

Visual Studio Code works against files and folders. When you open a folder where a Xamarin.iOS project lives, all the files load fine and features such as links to references and even intellisense on iOS classes work great.

Here’s a class that implements a UIView subclass for example showing intellisenseĀ on CALayer:

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You can download Visual Studio Code at: https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

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