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Alessandro Del Sole, Beginning Visual Studio for Mac, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3033-6_2

2. Getting Started with the IDE and with Projects

Alessandro Del Sole

(1)Cremona, Italy

As a developer, you will spend most of your time working with Visual Studio for Mac. This provides an integrated development environment (IDE) that includes not only a rich code editor but also a large number of integrated tools and features that make developers extremely productive.

Because Visual Studio for Mac is the tool you are going to use for your daily work, you need to know in detail most of the features and tools it offers, from the code editor to productivity features to how it handles file management. In this chapter, you will ...

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