Visual Studio for Mac brings the developer productivity you love to the Mac. The experience has been meticulously crafted to optimize the developer workflow for the Mac.

Manage your code in Git repos, hosted by any provider, including GitHub and Visual Studio Team Services. Share projects seamlessly with developers using Visual Studio across Windows and Mac. 

On 16th November 2016, Nat Friedman and James Montemagno introduced Visual Studio for Mac, the newest member of the Visual Studio family at Connect(); 2016 event. I thought let's give it a try so I installed the same and went through the project templates available in it. This blog is kind of a getting started guide to install Visual Studio For Mac. 

Secure password storage in the Windows Credential Store

Multi-factor authentication support for Visual Studio Team Services.

Two-factor authentication support for GitHub

Personal Access Token generation and usage support for Visual Studio Team Services and GitHub

Non-interactive mode support for Visual Studio Team Services backed by Azure Directory

Optional settings for build agent optimization 

Visual Studio Dev Essentials is a new free developer offering from Microsoft. A free membership to this program gives you access to a range of benefits including developer tools and services, training and support. This video provides an overview of some key benefits, including Visual Studio Community, Visual Studio Team Services, Pluralsight training, and HackHands live programming help 

Microsoft has released a preview of its new Visual Studio GDB extension, contributing to their ongoing effort to make Visual Studio support as many development environments as possible.  Microsoft's Marc Goodner has provided details of this new ability, which can be used with Visual Studio 2015 Community edition or higher.  

In Visual Studio 2015 Succinctly, author Alessandro Del Sole explains how to take advantage of the highly anticipated features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2015. Topics include sharing code between different types of projects, new options for debugging and diagnostics, and improving productivity with other services in the Visual Studio ecosystem, such as NuGet and Azure.

Could not load type 'System.Windows.Forms.Form' from assembly 'System.Windows.Forms, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=969DB8053D3322AC'.
System.Windows.Forms 3.5.7283.0 but 3.5.0.0 windows CE

1. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
2. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005  Service Pack 1
3. Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Toolkit
4. Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Platform Builder Service Pack 1
5. Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2
6. Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

Update-Package : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'reinstall'.
At line:1 char:26
+ update-package -reinstall <<<< 
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Update-Package], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NamedParameterNotFound,NuGet.PowerShell.Commands.UpdatePackageCommand

%USERPROFILE%/.omnisharp

{
  "RoslynExtensionsOptions": {
    "LocationPaths": [
      "C:\\lib\\roslynator"
    ]
  }
}

Write-Host "Download, unzip and enable Roslynator for Visual Studio Code"

$name = "josefpihrt.Roslynator2017"
$url = "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=$name"
$currentDir = $PSScriptRoot
$file = "$currentDir\Roslynator.zip"

$pattern = "<script class=`"vss-extension`" defer=`"defer`" type=`"application\/json`">(.*?)<\/script>"
$regex = [regex]"(?m)$pattern"
Write-Host "Grab the home page of the $name."
$dom = (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString($url); 
if($dom -and $dom -match $pattern) 
{
    $matches = $regex.Match($dom)
    $jsonText = $matches[0].Groups[1]

    $json = ConvertFrom-Json $jsonText

    $version = $Json.versions[0].version # Parse the json in the page for the latest version number
    $parts = $name.Split(".")
    $publisher = $parts[0]
    $package = $parts[1]

    # Assemble the url for the vsix package
    $packageUrl = "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/publishers/$publisher/vsextensions/$package/$version/vspackage"
    Write-Host "Download the vsix package: $packageUrl"
    (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile($packageUrl, $file)

    Write-Host "Using $currentDir as the current dir."
    Write-Host "Unzip $file."
    $shellApp = new-object -com shell.application 
    $zipFile = $shellApp.namespace($file) 
    $destination = $shellApp.namespace($currentDir) 
    $destination.Copyhere($zipFile.items(), 0x14)# overwrite and be silent

    Write-Host "Delete VS specific files. Otherwise they will interfere with the MEF services inside OmniSharp."
    Remove-Item "$currentDir\Roslynator.VisualStudio.Core.dll","$currentDir\Roslynator.VisualStudio.dll", "$currentDir\Roslynator.VisualStudio.pkgdef"

    $omnisharpJsonFilePath = "$env:USERPROFILE\.omnisharp\omnisharp.json";
    Write-Host "Create $omnisharpJsonFilePath file."
    $omnisharpJson = @" 
{{
  "RoslynExtensionsOptions": {{
    "LocationPaths": [
      "{0}"
    ]
  }}
}}
"@ -f $currentDir -Replace "\\","\\"
    $omnisharpJson | Out-File "$omnisharpJsonFilePath" -Confirm

    Write-Host "Done!"
}
else
{
    Write-Host "Failed to find the packageUrl!"
}

PS D:\Prog\1396\RoslynatorVSCode> .\update.ps1
Download, unzip and enable Roslynator for Visual Studio Code
Grab the home page of the josefpihrt.Roslynator2017.
Download the vsix package: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/_apis/public/gallery/publishers/josefpihrt/vsextensions/Roslynator2017/1.7.0/vspackage
Using D:\Prog\1396\RoslynatorVSCode as the current dir.
Unzip D:\Prog\1396\RoslynatorVSCode\Roslynator.zip.
Delete VS specific files. Otherwise they will interfere with the MEF services inside OmniSharp.
Create C:\Users\Vahid\.omnisharp\omnisharp.json file.

Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Performing the operation "Output to File" on target "C:\Users\Vahid\.omnisharp\omnisharp.json".
[Y] Yes  [A] Yes to All  [N] No  [L] No to All  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"):
Done!