Hats off to Microsoft for releasing the new Visual Studio for Mac. Unfortunately, this does not, at present and in all cases, enable us to properly develop.NET web applications on a Mac.
Introducing Visual Studio for Mac. 4 minutes to read. Contributors. In this article Visual Studio for Mac is a modern, sophisticated IDE with many features to create mobile, desktop, and web applications.
It supports the following types of development:. Mobile with.NET: Android, iOS, tvOS, watchOS. Mac desktop apps.NET Core applications. ASP.NET Core web applications. Cross-platform Unity games It includes features such as a rich editor, debugging, native platform integration with iOS, Mac, and Android, and integrated source control.
This article surveys various sections of Visual Studio for Mac and introduces features that make it a powerful tool to create cross-platform applications. Tip Visual Studio 2019 for Mac preview is now available for testing.
Follow these and check out the. Installation Follow the steps in the guide to download and install Visual Studio for Mac. Language support Visual Studio for Mac supports development in C# and F#, by default. C# C# is the most commonly used language to create cross-platform applications in Visual Studio for Mac. The IDE has full support for all C# 7 features. F# F# is a strongly-typed functional programming language designed to run on.NET.
It is available as a programming language to Visual Studio for Mac users on Android, Mac, and iOS. For more information on using F# and to view samples created in the language, visit the guides. Platform support.NET Core is a platform to create applications that run on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Visual Studio for Mac has support to load, create, run, and debug.NET Core projects. To run.NET Core projects, the.NET Core SDK should be downloaded and installed.NET Core support includes:. C# and F# IntelliSense.NET Core project templates for console, library, and web applications. Full debugging support, including breakpoints, call stack, watch window, etc.
NuGet PackageReferences and MSBuild-based restore. Integrated unit testing support for running and debugging tests with the Visual Studio Test Platform that is included with the.NET Core SDK. Migration from the old project.json format. To get started, check out the ASP.NET Core web apps. Xamarin First-class support for allows you to develop rich native experiences for Android, macOS, iOS, tvOS, and watchOS.
Xamarin.Forms cross-platform applications help you share XAML-based UI code between Android, iOS, and macOS without limiting access to native functionality. To get started, check out the Mobile apps. Android Visual Studio has its own integrated Android SDK manager. For Android applications, Visual Studio for Mac includes its own designer, which works with Android.axml files to visually construct user interfaces. Visual Studio for Mac will open these files in its Android Designer, as illustrated in the following image: For more information on the Android Designer, see the document. IOS The iOS Designer is fully integrated with Visual Studio for Mac and enables visual editing of.xib and Storyboard files to create iOS, tvOS, and WatchOS UIs and transitions.
The entire user interface can be built using drag-and-drop functionality between the Toolbox and Design Surface, while using an intuitive approach to handling events. The iOS Designer also supports with the added benefit of design-time rendering.
For more information on using the iOS Designer, see the documents. Mac Xamarin provides native Mac API bindings that allow you to create beautiful Mac applications. For more information on writing Mac applications with Visual Studio for Mac, refer to the documentation. Gaming Visual Studio for Mac provides support for cross-platform game development with Unity 5.6.1.
To get started, check out the Unity. Enterprise features. Note These products can only be used with a Visual Studio Enterprise subscription.
Profiler The Xamarin Profiler has three instruments available for profiling. The guide explores what these instruments measure and how they analyze your application, and clarifies the meaning of the data presented on each screen. Inspector The Xamarin Inspector provides an interactive C# console with user tools. It can be used as a debugging or diagnostics aid when inspecting live applications, as a teaching tool, as a documentation tool, or an experimentation tool. It consists of a standalone application that provides a rich C# console that can target various programming platforms (Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows) and integrate into your IDEs debugging workflow.
For more information, see the guide. Next steps. Get the tour - To get an overview of many of the major features in Visual Studio for Mac, see the Visual Studio for Mac. Set up - To learn about how to download and install Visual Studio, see the guide.
Xamarin Tutorials - To learn more about how to develop code with Xamarin, go to the Xamarin. Videos - To learn more about other features and aspects of Visual Studio for Mac, check out videos on the website.
Hands-on Labs - To get started working with the various workloads included in Visual Studio for Mac, check out the.
After reading John XFactor's latest book, one of the tools he recommends is Web Content Studio. I wanted to know if any of you fellow warriors know of a similar free or cheaper tool that does pretty much everything WCS does. I just cannot justify paying $167 - YET!
What in essence it does it look at the top 10 pages in Google and analyse the most frequently used keyphrases from the PAGE content (not just meta tags like some other tools). It then breaks these down into a single, 2-phrase, 3-phrased & 4 keyword phrases receptively. I know that one could probably do this using the GAKT tool but it would be such a big time saver. Any help is appreciated.:-). Your time would better be spent using SEOMoz's tool open site explorer. It is also free.
The days of analyzing page content are far behind us. Focus your energy and money on the links and anchor text coming in. Reread what Zaheer is talking about.
Web Content Studio (WCS) is used for harvesting keyword phrases from the top position websites and using those phrases for writing well-themed content. When you write well-themed content, link building becomes less important. I have used a WCS alternative but can't recall it's name. It was pretty good but didn't have all the features of WCS. I will look around for it.
I have used Jack Duncan's UKTE and it does what it says on the tin and extracts common keywords in the top 10 of Google for your main keyword. These sort of tools are great for finding the common keywords and the related keywords theory is certainly the right approach to creating themed content. However, don't fall into the trap that UKTE or web content studio is the complete solution. Discovering LSI and related keywords is just the beginning. They are just words and phrases at the end of the day. Knowing how best to use them and also all the esoteric and other 'in the know' keywords can only be done by proper niche research.
It is not as boring as it sounds either. In fact understanding how and why to use keywords opens up a whole wealth of untapped ideas, tangent niches and topics to create great content about. Getting under the skin of your market and getting to know it as an expert in your field is an exciting and very lucrative opportunity. I'm not aware of this other software you mention. Easy Article Rewriter Pro is great for writing or rewriting keyword rich content using LSI but the LSI keywords are pulled manually using the free report that is included called 'The LSI Code'. At some point we may be automating this process to speed it up. With our software currently only $27 it is a steal and has many happy users.
This price is likely going up in January. As for being Mac compatible, unfortunately it isn't. The market share isn't there to justify the time spent developing a Mac version. You may want to take a closer look at this and it is only $27 and has a 14-day money back guarantee. I'm still considering it. Getting under the skin of your market and getting to know it as an expert in your field is an exciting and very lucrative opportunity.
Although I can see the strength of using themed content, it's only a basis. I would for example first answer questions in a niche in my own words, and then check that text in wcs to see if I can theme it a bit better by adding a few words or change it around here and there. John X factor's tea example: composing an article around the words alone, that wcs comes up with, I am not so sure about that. While themed content alone may not get you high rankings in the search engines, Andy Williams' Web Content Studio software WILL help you write better articles. This is where I see it has its best value. It helps you analyze the top 10 ranked pages in Google for your primary keyword phrase.
It shows you other keywords and phrases (the themed LSI content) contained in those articles. Then it helps you to organize your sub-topics based on the themed LSI phrases it finds. You can also read John Robinson's 217 page e-book about writing content for Authority Adsense sites. He provides an excellent tutorial on how to use the software. Using Andy William's Web Content Studio and Jonathan Leger's Instant Article Wizard will help you write your articles more efficiently and with good content. If you hire article writers to do the work, you can have them use those two tools for better results.