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From YouTube: S210 - Visual Studio for Mac Tips & Tricks - Amy Burns Dominic Nahous

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Visual Studio for Mac is the Microsoft IDE natively designed for the Mac. You get everything you need for mobile, web, game and cloud development using C#, with rich support for Xamarin, .NET Core, Unity and Azure development. In this session, I'll take you through tips and tricks to help you get the most out of Visual Studio for Mac. This one's for beginners and experts alike!

A

Hello: everyone, my name, is dawn, look uh I'm.

B

A

Are both PM's Microsoft on the visual studio for Mac team? We are here today to show you how to work in Visual Studio the Mac and show you some of our favorite tips tricks and some of the things that we really like about Visual Studio from Mac.

B

So down what kind of Visual Studio for Mac do for me, you.

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Know I'm not so sure I'm.

A

Not so sure anything, what can visually do do for you? Well, let's say it this way, if I would have put it in a nutshell right, you can build a number things. You know you can build apps game services for mobile web desktop and the cloud so yeah a few just a few things right and I know. I know this really excites you. So you know it excites me sometimes too, but don't worry. We will I'll go into this in a lot more detail over the course of this presentation.

A

So I'd like to start off with a brief introduction about what Visual Studio for Mac is a Visual Studio for Mac is a native Mac OS application. That has the look and feel that you would expect on a Mac. So for those of you who are familiar with the mechs, all you're going to feel that same same thing that you feel on on the Mac for any other application for those of you that are used to visual studio on Windows, we know that you know it's going to feel a little bit different for you.

A

It might be a little bit jarring because, because of those differences, but where possible, we try to make make be very mindful of those differences to make it easier for you, speaking of making things easier, we also try to make it easy for you to download and get running with Visual Studio from that pretty pretty easily once you've downloaded and installed it. It's a single single download that you can get once you've downloaded and installed it. You can activate it using your existing Visual Studio subscription just by logging into the IDE.

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It's not a problem at all. If you don't have one of those visual studio subscriptions, you can, if you're, if you're eligible you can, you can use Visual Studio from that Community Edition.

A

Now, from the moving on, we have a few different types of projects that we support in Visual Studio for Mac from the file new solution menu. You can actually access a variety of different project templates. You can create. We have some of them listed here. You can create dotnet core apps asp.net core projects. You can do a cross-platform mobile development with xamarin. You can deploy connect to is your work with. Is your functions and then actually something that I'm pretty excited about myself and I'm? Personally, you know I really enjoy it.

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The Visual Studio for Mac is actually now the home of of unity on the Mac, and you can develop your unity. Apps unity games, not just games but apps to using visual studio format.

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So, right now, with Visual Studio for Mac, you can. We have support for seashell, which is a language. You can now call it's commonly used for creating cross-platform, apps cross-platform applications and we actually support up through c-sharp 7, which is the the latest versions, and for those of you who are one of those strongly typed functional programming, language persons. We're looking out for you guys to I. Think Amy knows some folks that uh F.

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I, you also have the ability in Visual Studio to for Mac to write and debug in that shop. Something that I've also like to talk about is some of the web. The web bits. We also have added a support for razor for JavaScript typescript. You can do HTML CSS.

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We give you access to syntax, highlighting to intellisense if you're one of those web developers and writing for the web and speaking of intellisense you'll, be happy to know that intellisense is actually well intellisense, along with all of our analyzes code. Fixes refactorings at Visual. Studio from that can give you it's it's all powered by Rosslyn, which is the the same engine that Visual Studio on on windows uses. So a few our customs to those features on windows. You'll see those transfer over to the Mac as well.

A

We also know it's very important to test and some of us a little bit better testing than others. If you're a little bit more responsible than feel a little bit more responsible than I am you'll, be happy to know that you can. You can use a few different kinds of tests. Templates are built into ps4 Mac. You can do MS test and Unit X unit tests, all in Visual Studio from Mac, which will help you to you know, maintain ahold, health and show code coverage, all that sort of good stuff.

A

If you again, if you're a responsible person, the last thing I wanted to talk about for now, I know: I don't have it listed here, but I did want to actually I do have it listed here. Sorry, but the last thing I want to talk about I'm going to talk about later again. It's version control, so we're gonna talk about git subversion later on, as well as Team Foundation version control.

A

So we'll talk about those later- and you know we have a you- know: visual studio magazine, nice, IDE, there's a lot of features in it and I think Amy might have some tips for us about the IDE. So I do you want to show us show some of the things that you know about the ID yeah.

B

Absolutely I'd love to guys on a tour of the IDE mm-hmm, so first off there's a couple of different types of settings that you'll want to be aware of whenever you're personalizing, the the IDE. These are the IDE preferences.

B

These are used to make the ID function in the way that you want it to things like themes, code folding. These are all ID preferences and you can find them from the Preferences menu which I'll be showing you in just a second. We've also got project options which affect how your app is built.

B

So things like build configurations, compiler options, they're all included there and you can get to the project options either by by clicking on the project name in the solution pad or just by double clicking on it and I'll, bring it up, and then policies which relate to your code, styling and format, and you can adjust these again through their Preferences dialog.

B

So what I'm going to do now is give you a little demo, so we can run through and I can show you some of the interesting things in Visual Studio for Mac.

A

All right, thanks, Amy.

B

All right, so you know, as we were saying, everyone has their own personal preferences over how they want the IDE to look and feel and act. You.

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B

We like how many times that be hard people argue over tabs or spaces right, so I want to show you some ID preferences that you can use to get visual studio for mark working just the way you want it and then also give you a quick tour of the IDE itself. So this is the welcome page. So whenever you open up visual studio for Mac for the first, its tenth one hundredth time, this is the first thing that you're gonna see you can open your project from here open an existing project.

B

You can see all your recent projects, but before we get into that, I wanted to show you how to customize the ID so to access the Preferences. That's just through the Visual Studio menu item right here and there's a ton of things that you can access right here.

B

We have a lot of people asking for dark theme and we introduced that.

C

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Designers were really put to work with this. They designed every single little icon for a dark thing just so that it looks like as amazing on dark thing as it does on light thing. I'm.

C

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You can just you can just change that in here. Amy.

C

And I think are both really really.

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Strong supporters of light beams.

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Light thing for everything.

C

But I will say that as far as dark themes go you know it's, it's not bad. You.

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Lot of people really like the doctor, so uh you.

C

Know to each their own, but I, guess I! Guess we're a little bit on the side right.

B

Okay, so next thing that's super important is key findings. So, with the key findings in Visual Studio for Mac, you can actually set that game. So, if you're coming from another idea, whether it be Visual Studio for Mac on Windows Xcode, you can just choose something that matches. You know what your film male familiar with, I'm just going to keep it with the the standard one for a night, but what I am gonna do is show you how to add a key finding.

B

So we just added this cool report, a problem tool a little while ago and I love filing bugs I. This is my favorite and.

C

We work in the same office and I think every morning Amy kicks the door down and she says how many bugs am I gonna find today. I wanna.

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Make easier for myself to make you know to file bugs so to do that, I'm gonna. Add you keep ID for the report, a problem feature if.

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Yeah, so let me see I'm just gonna say it like so I'm just gonna select it here: I searched for it. I'm just going to set the binding command. D doesn't look like that's taken cool if.

C

It was taken, what happens it.

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Would just come up and tell me that there's conflict, okay,.

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You something else nice yeah. No, it will complain I'm just going to add that and there we go you see, I can show you come on D there we go easy peasy, that's awesome!.

C

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Have to use an awesome, look ma no hands.

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Okay, so that's the environment and I'm, like the text, editor section and preferences is probably one of my favorite there's ton stuff that you can do in here. In the general section you can enable code. Folding I find that really handy, especially whenever I'm looking through, like huge code files just to try and navigate a little bit easier.

B

Does I want markers and rulers. So I don't know about anybody else in here, but I. If I had a dollar for every time, I didn't have a matching, brace and I. You know: I ran my app and the compilers weren't yelling at me and I was about to start crying and then I realized that I had just you know, not included. A brace I'd have like at least two books, but so not like once I find this feature turned it on and I always like to just double check.

B

Make sure that you know I've got my Machu braces there. I also like to just double check, and so I can see my current line just so. I know where I am and file and I also like to make sure highlighted dead fire references turned on one thing: that's really handy. There is if the reference is assigned, it will actually be highlighted in red and if it's referenced it will be in blue. It's a handy tip there again coming back to braces once I realized that I could just insert a matching brace.

B

That was really handy for me, because then the compiler doesn't try to make quite as much and I'm much happier, and you can also add you know smart semicolon placement here too. If that's your thing in.

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Case you forget those semicolons yep.

B

And another cool feature is color theme. So while you can change the the theme of the idea in general, you can also change the theme of the editor. So we have a variety of different things here, but we also do support visual studio themes and text me at themes. You can just add those and apply it and it will it'll work straight away, yeah.

B

So as I mentioned, so policies are what we use to describe the code, styling and formatting. So I just want to show you that really quickly as well.

B

So yes, so in the source code section under code, formatting I'm, just gonna look at the c-sharp source code for now, but you can do this, for you know anything else: f-sharp XML, whatever it is you're using you can set your your preferred policy or whatever policy it is that using mono overs. Just you do. If you want to edit that as well, you can just go to the C sharp format. Tab just hit edit and.

B

Let's see I'm gonna insert space, yeah and I'll. Give you a little preview of exactly what's going on as well, so you can just customize that policy kind of as you want and yeah. So that's setting your policies, so you can also use this preferences menu to set the new good source locations, version, control, message, style and various other things. I do highly encourage anybody just to check.

B

I, if you haven't, you know browse through the Preferences menu before just check it out and go and see all the features in there and I'm sure you'll find you know something that you didn't know was in there it'll be quite a nice treat so.

A

If I'm working with you on some shared code- and we have some different opinions on, you know how we want to work there, yeah.

B

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Do we do there? Okay,.

B

So that's a great question, so we know I have support as well for editor config files, which means that you know you can have your spaces and I can have my tabs, and you know whenever we're quitting the file and we're using it all together with the team, then Miguel is happy and that's what matters at the end of the day yeah. So neither you've got your ID working the way you want it. Let me give you a lay the land and the IDE itself.

B

So I'm just going to open up my supercool app, which is just an iOS single view up straight from the template, and you see whenever we open this up. We have what's called a workspace here above the workspace. Is your tool bar, so you have your run. Debug buttons, you've got your project configurations here.

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You've also got your notification bar, so whenever you know you're updating a sure whenever your projects building, you can see exactly what's going on then and you've got your search over here can also very easily access the search through the command full-stop option, and that will just come up there. So, as I was saying, we've also got we usually use what's called workspaces, and the workspace consists of the document area and the document area would be like the code editor as we have here.

B

If you're using a designer file it, you know, it'd be the designer surface for an iOS storyboard or something and it's surrounded by complimentary pads. So here we have the solution pod, we would have. You know your properties, your toolbox, along the side and all these all these default layouts are there for you, so you've got code, debug design test, and so it can very easily jump between the different different layouts.

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It is important to it's important to note that by default, Visual Studio for Mac will open any new solution that you have in a new workspace and actually close the current workspace.

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But, however, you can open more than one solution in a single workspace by going to file and open and just select the you know, the solution file that you want go to options and uncheck.

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This closed current work space and then hit open and it will open in the same workspace now, if you're, using a solution or if you want to open a solution that you've recently used, you can actually go to file raising solutions hold on the ctrl key and just select it and again, it'll just open in the in the workspace in the same workspace so say: I want to open, so I want to open a new file here. This is from a different solution. Altogether.

B

I can actually play around with my documents here and I can have them side-by-side, so I can just pull it, pull the table, I move it to the side, and there we have it side by side, which is pretty cool. If you want, if you're using more than one monitor as well, you can actually pull it right out of the IDE and have as a separate window altogether, it's pretty pretty nice.

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Finally, one thing that I do want to mention is that automark all apps are single instance, and what that means is that once it's kind of like already open here, if you click on it again at the dock, that it will just open the same instance that you're in if you want to open a new instance, you can just do that in the command line. So just with open and let's see, applications.

B

And I'll just open a new instance for you.

C

And this was life-changing when I figured this out couple years ago, when I, when I started easing.

A

Max absolutely life-changing: it's.

B

Pretty cool, pretty good cuz I, don't really need it.

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C

Alright, let's get this back up and alright. So thank you very much for that to me yeah thanks for that run-through, I would.

A

Like to talk a little bit now about asp.net cool in that visual studio format, so we can hit the next slide, but awesome so asp.net Co allows you to to interest. Do a few things you can develop and build some awesome. Cloud-Based internet-connected, cross-platform applications, and you can you can, you know, have the ability to create web apps, you can create services backends.

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You know something if you you really want to.

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You can even do something like connecting your coffee pot to the internet using IOT and at the moment, Visual Studio for mac supports dotnet core 2.1, which is again the latest version of the.net core apos, SDK and you'll be able to what this create web apps using razor pages or MVC in addition to asp.net Web API projects with this also comes intellisense formatting and all those other features that you're used to for various files like arrays the files, temp typescript, JavaScript, CSS, HTML files and something that's really cool.

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You can also hook up with doc, oh and throw your asp.net core pages or projects into containers.

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One thing that I do want to say as well is that in inside a visual studio from Mac, you can actually configure the location of your donut coil SDK in case you had a previous install or you want multiple installs donut hole.

A

So you can go into the Preferences page, which Amy showed us Sara, Lee, oh and and change the location there and then I did want to get us up and running with a little bit of a demo, just to see a little bit of what we can do with asp.net yeah cool, so I I'm.

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Gonna get the get the ID up and running and fire away so I'm gonna show you once we clean this out all right.

A

Okay, so I'm going to show you a new the template that we have full Donna cool. So if you go into file file, new solution, I'll open this up. These templates for donek off we scroll down here, you'll, see yap and you'll, see that we've got a few options here, I'm going to select a dotnet called Weber.

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Now this is a razor template and the preferred way to create pages in HTML and I know that there's an MVC one below it and you might be asking well, you know when do I pick between raisin and MVC, if you're looking to do just a you know, an HTML website race is going to be a choice if you're looking to do something that will also serve like there's a Web API, you know go with MVC. There's good news about this, though you know, you're not locked into one of them.

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If you choose one over the other, it's not you know the end of the world. You can actually add MVC. You raise the pages even Web, API bits to all of your projects and shuffle things around so instead of going through and creating a a app I'm going to.

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Going to open one up that I conveniently just have here, you know just randomly on the computer, so well as it loads up I just wanted to show one thing: really: quick Amy's actually going to touch on this a little bit late on and that's. If you're right, click on your project here go over to publish you can actually publish some of your functions or products as you'll.

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Can publish your done that what don't not call web app to show as well I, so I'll just show you quickly some some code completion, intellisense I'm gonna, go down to my asp.net web app I'm gonna go down here into my index, page and I'm, going to add a new property here now, let's just add it: let's just throw it here.

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I'm actually only use a little bit of a cheat code, a little template here, so I'm gonna type in prop hit tab and it's gonna fill this out for me, I'm gonna make a string hit tab again: I'm gonna call it totes prop cuz, it's total it property and then I'm gonna go over to my land x, CS HTML, my my adult, CS, 1 and you'll, see if I say, add, model I'm. Sorry, there we go, I can do totes and it's it's that you know.

A

I can access that also I'm, just gonna get rid of that because I'm just being a little silly there, but what I think is really important is showing you how to configure multiple builds in Visual Studio for Mac. So if I select my entire solution and hit options here, you can go down to my run, configurations and I'll. Add a new configuration I'd call. It tell it's all, because it's totally gonna run all of my my projects. I'm gonna, create that double click that and I'm gonna select all the projects.

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All the projects in my solution hit OK and now I'm going to run it and there we go so that is how does going so, while that's going I will say it a couple things or one thing here: it's a something! That's really cool to know is that with the latest versions of asp.net core, when you create a project that actually has support for HTTP built into it, so you can easily convert over to a to a secure website. If you'd like.

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Yeah, thank you Amy, so I was actually really silly. I created that so this is really good. This is a really good lesson. If you don't select that built configuration, then I won't run everything, so we only ran the function left. So I'm gonna close that and let's start again so uh good cache. Thank you Amy.

A

So that'll take just a little bit there as it spins up it's running that function. It's creating that or getting that asp.net call website ready, so that will just pop up in a sec. We're going to go to this website here and.

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There it is alright, so what we're going to do here? This is an asp.net call website. It is here to take these files from me. There's a dog jpg file. Here it might be a picture of a dog, it might not be it's definitely a picture of a dog.

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So this is a picture of a dog I'm gonna open this up and I'm gonna submit it, and what what's happening here is this a speed on that call website is taking this picture, uploading it to blob storage and it's triggering a function to get the image analyzed. So if we go back here, we'll see up there, we go it's coming through there. So now this is coming back through cognitive services and it's saying: okay, this was a dog lying on a wood floor. There's definitely some flan there's. Definitely some dog in it.

A

That's pretty accurate I think so now that we brought up functions a little bit, Hale I would like to to hand over to Amy so I'm, just gonna close this up make everything nice and clean and.

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And scooch over so sorry, I'm gonna work with you guys.

B

Awesome thanks dough yeah.

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Thank you thanks for catching my mistake, that of.

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All right, cool, so yeah, so as Donna saying I want to show you guys a little bit by as your functions. So hopefully you have heard about IG functions because they're super cool but they're also pretty new technology. Just over a couple of years old, they're, a serverless event-driven way to get a quick task like up and running so think, like image or order processing, or something that you just like want to run on a schedule, and it does that with like the need for you to build a whole application infrastructure behind it.

B

In addition, as your functions ties in with existing as your services or third-party services such as Twitter, which we just saw the ad for earlier and there's a number, it's really easy to get started as we have a number of different templates available. So, for example, like blob trigger github web hooks analyze you to get started really quickly with the common scenarios, so Ashu functions in Visual Studio for Mac. So what kind of support do we have here? Well, all of our templates they're supported for the v2 as your functions runtime.

B

We also have dotnet core 2.0 plus support, there's a ton of templates that are actually available through the new project dialog. So you can just go in like create a new approach, select the template and from there you can. You can actually configure the template with your connection, string and whatnot, and you have it something that's up and running. You can actually just run it there locally. We do now have local debugging and my favorite with our newest release. We're super excited to announce that you can now publish your function.

B

ah Sure which and I'll show you just show you this in a couple of minutes. So it's it's pretty cool, so Visual Studio for Mac now allows you to create as your functions from start to finish. It allows you to go from file new, to publish it, publishing it on Azure and getting it up and running so yeah, pretty cool pretty go. So let me give you a little glimpse into the world of ru functions on Visual Studio for Mac.

B

Awesome so just open this I'm just gonna work with this same app that Dom had just introduced. So this this super cool web app allows you to upload a photo up into blob storage. This triggers the function and runs a tree cognitive services and basically analyzed.

B

So, like I was saying I kind of kind of run, wonderful into to show off my cat, so.

C

That the dog is one of my close friends, dogs, but the cat hair is as a meson cat.

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And I daresay the cat is cuter than the dog yeah.

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Yeah good night, it's not costume they're on this camp.

B

Okay, so I'm gonna submit that I go back to my function and it should just take a little little bit. I've done everything right.

B

It's running yeah, and so this is so. This function itself is actually just running locally, so this is just running on my machine.

B

The you know, the only connection to Azure is just to the blob, storage and Maya talking of services.

B

Yep, it looks like a cat looking at the camera awesome, that's exactly what it is: hello, coordinate, services, yeah yeah, so let me just go back to visual studio, so this this function was created from the blob trigger function.

B

It was created from the blob trigger function, template which you can find just through the new project, dialog and that's just located under Clyde general I just hit next, and you can just select your initial template from here.

B

We have some documentation as well online that describes these in a little bit more detail. If you want to try and figure out which one is the right one for you so call my function. Amy, because yeah Amy.

C

Is cool function now.

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This is just just showing the template, and so this connection string setting is you would just get it from the portal I'm. So you can just copy our connection string from there put it in here. It will have it all, set up and running for you as soon as you hit create.

B

So you know, debugging locally is cool, but you know what, if I want to use this like in my app like what, if I want to actually do something with with this? That's not just on my machine. So what I want to do is publish this function to Iser, so I'm going to show that to you guys tonight so to publish a share, we're just going to right click on the function, publish and publish to Azure.

B

So, whenever you published, as your it's going to take whatever your signed individual studio from Mac with and use that see, if there's this a as your subscription I kind of go through go through and it will display all the azure app services, that is, that is connected to any subscription that you've logged in with so I. Do have a couple here, but I want you know for the sake of demo.

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I just want to show you how to create a new app service, so we're just gonna hit than you button here, I'm going to call it something function.

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Don't go, and this has to be globally unique as well, so it will tell you if this has been taken before it won't. Actually, let you go ahead and create it if the names already taken, you want to select your subscription, and you want to select your resource group. So I want to make sure that I'm selecting the resource group that the storage account that my function is using and my duck neck or app is using.

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So I'm gonna make sure that I've got the the resource group that has that storage account. I'm gonna create a custom service plan. Obviously the pricing region is dependent on your personal circumstances, so I'm gonna try and go for a consumption.

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Gonna go for East us.

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Function really good at human stuff, okay, next and we want to eat. There's the storage effects that we want to create so I hit, create, should create my app service and publish everything to Azure. That's.

C

Where the magic happens, I.

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Doesn't feel on me.

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And this takes just a couple minutes, sometimes yeah.

B

Normally takes a couple of minutes. To do I mean it depends if you're using existing like app services or stuff. If it's an existing app service, it doesn't need to create everything. So it's a little bit shorter, obviously, depending on your internet speed and everything as well. I think you can just take a little bit of time.

B

But yeah cool it looks like psy adds in the channel answering all your questions thanks ed yeah.

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B

Awesome are there any other questions or anything while we're waiting, I.

C

B

Good because they're doing.

B

All right, so this is looking good. It's publishing to Azure, don't feel mommy. No I ain't do that.

C

So I think you know, maybe while we we wait for the second hair I'll, just give you a preview.

A

Of what I'll just jump into next I'd like to talk a little bit about version control, I know that's pretty important to a lot of people and we do have some semi support for 30sec. So I will definitely talk about that.

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So um you will be prompted for this right and I. This is just making sure that whenever you are uploading to the portal that the application settings of your function are using the the v2 runtime, so you're just gonna hit yes here and.

B

Boom there we go, it all worked and.

C

It's a happy face right.

B

It's good whatever yeah yeah.

C

It's good. It's a happy winky face.

B

But yeah, so that is as your functions in Visual Studio for Mac yeah.

C

So, let's pop back yeah there we are hi us hi, everyone out there. So, let's, let's chat a little bit about version control. There's.

A

Some version control options for you in Visual, Studio format, support for.

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Team Team Foundation version control.

A

There we go I'm, gonna, say T FEC from now on, so avoid tongue twisters, but but support for that is currently in preview and Visual Studio for Mac. It's a it's actually available via an extension, so you can add it into. You can add it into Visual Studio for Mac, via the extension manager and via the gallery, tab in the extension manager, and you can access the extension manager from the extension menu item in that Visual Studio menu bar item, which Amy pulled from the Preferences open from once.

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You've installed that extension 40sec make sure you restart Visual Studio for Mac, just to make sure everything is nice and smooth, and then, as that extensions in preview, we're actually actually updating that fairly regularly. So you know keep it up to date by going back to that place, that extension manager going to the Updates tab and you know, checking for updates on a periodic basis. Yeah.

B

And please try it out on file bugs oh yeah,.

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And we showed the other file bugs to we'll show you a little bit more of that later too.

A

So with that extension installed, you can connect the TFS. You can connect a V STS create connected repositories there. You can create workspaces, navigate projects to perform all the things that you know that you used to doing with version control and now, let's move over to get and subversion. Those are both actually built into Visual Studio for Mac the support there. So so the version control menu item in the menu bar is going to be a best friend when you're working with these.

A

It's important to know that actually get is installed by default on your Mac, so max come with get installed. It's not usually the most recent version of get so you'll probably want to go and update it. You know, make sure you're on a recent version, but you know that advice aside now that that's taken care of you know you can you can hook up to get repositories? You can polish, you can pull. You can do everything else that you can normally do with git and then, similarly with subversion.

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A same same similar story, you can, you know, check out, update, check back in commit something important, though on the Mac subversion is not pre-installed like it is so you're going to have to install subversion and one of the really easy ways to do that on the Mac is by installing the Xcode command-line tools, so I definitely recommend doing that. If you'd like to use subversion now you may be familiar with the ability that that you have on Windows and PS 2017 to to clone git repos to vs 2017 from VSDs.

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We're actually working right now on enabling that for vs for Mac, so stay tuned for more information on that and then I think Amy actually has a few few little bits of information that she wants to share with you before we close up yeah.

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So, there's just another little bit of information that I I just want to wrap up with important things to know just to make sure that you're really getting the best out of the IDE, so that is making sure that your IDE is getting is being kept up to date or, if you'd like to live on the wild side, to check out our previews or even better, our our weekly bills.

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So we have three, maybe four channels in the in the updater dialog that is stable, which is you know which it's your release, bill, content that we want to be that we're pretty happy.

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We have the beta Channel, which is our preview, so you can say up there for all the like juicy goodness and the Alpha channel is our weekly build, which is literally the latest and greatest content. We also have dynamic channels, which you know we will add them for specific purposes such as X cotangent,.

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Do I OS developers yeah.

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For if you were trying to keep your summer an iOS app up-to-date for iOS 12, we were sending Xcode 10 updates through the that dynamic tunnel. It just meant it was much easier if you rather have to go to the web and dynode everything from there. You'll also get notified ether through the toolbar or just by a pop-up. Whenever there are notifications, so I highly recommend that you stay on top it up.

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You know to update you just bring up the updater dialog select the channel that you want and you can fix it that channel download, install everything. You know how to do and like I was saying earlier. We have this new report, a problem dialog that Kim I, this new feature I think literally just the start of this week, maybe right. So this is in the seven six four release of Visual Studio for Mac from this dialog.

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It makes it really easy for you to be able to browse any followed issues that you have search for any issues to do with Visual Studio for Mac or to actually report a new problem just from right within the IDE. So it just makes it really easier easy for you to you know to give us that feedback, which you know. We always really appreciate everybody that takes the time to feedback.

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We absolutely love to get the feedback. It helps us make a better product for you and the more details that you can give us in these issues that you're filing the better it allows us to. You know to address them a little bit more quickly with a little less that back and forth. So if you're going to be filing issues- and you want to see if you can beat Amy and the filing bugs Department I'll feel free and thank you yeah.

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So, thank you guys so much for taking the time to listen to us. We.

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Appreciate it, if you want some more information, I can always go to aka.ms/offweb Mac. If you have never used Visual Studio for Mac before and now you're interested, you can download it from that page. If you want to get up to scratch on Visual Studio, we've got the awesome.

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Awesome content written by our docs team, AKMs ford, slash, vs, Mac dots, so it's really good keep up with all the content there, and if you have questions that either be kind uncertain, I or you just want to talk to us or you want to just listen to what we have to say. You can follow us on twitter. I'm time you take it.

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These days, I'll.

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Update that but not right now, but thank you for listening today.

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You so much I really appreciate it. Yeah thanks everyone.