Important reminder: Microsoft will stop providing support for Visual Studio IDE on August 31 next year, Mac users please pay attention

The Microsoft Developer Blog published an important notice announcing that the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Mac platform is about to enter a new stage of development. According to the notice, Visual Studio for Mac version 17.6 will continue to be supported for a 12-month period until August 31, 2024

According to our understanding, Microsoft’s move means Visual Studio for Mac development will enter the "retirement" phase. During this period, Microsoft will no longer introduce new features to this IDE, and will not add new frameworks, runtimes or language support. However, in the next year, Microsoft will focus on solving security issues and successively release services and security updates to ensure that the development environment of existing users remains safe and stable

Microsoft emphasized in the notice that although it will no longer develop new features for Visual Studio for Mac, it will continue to provide alternative solutions for developers on the Mac platform. Microsoft will guide developers to use the newly released C# Dev Kit for VS Code and other related extensions. The purpose of this is to provide developers with a better development experience and encourage them to achieve greater achievements in cross-platform development

Microsoft said that it will reallocate resources and adjust development focus Will help enhance the functionality of Visual Studio and VS Code. Both tools will be optimized to perform better in cross-platform development

It should be noted that although Microsoft will stop maintaining Visual Studio for Mac (integrated development environment) next year , but they will continue to provide Mac users with VS Code, a powerful text editor. This means that developers can still use Microsoft tools for coding work on the Mac platform and enjoy a stable development environment

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