Beginning Visual Studio for Mac

PART 1 - Preparing for development Chapter 1 - Configuring the Mac development machine This chapter explains how to configure the Mac machine and how to setup a developer profile. Also, this explains what tools readers must install before they can start with Visual Studio Chapter 2 - Getting started with the IDE and with projects This chapter describes the most common tools and tasks a developer needs when working with VS for Mac. This includes available project types, how to create a project, concepts related to projects, how to take the most out of the code editor and how to build and run a project. Chapter 3 - Debugging Applications This chapter explains how to leverage the powerful integrated instrumentation for debugging Xamarin and .NET Core apps. PART 2 - Building Mobile Apps with Xamarin Chapter 4 - Introducing Xamarin This chapter talks about the Xamarin platform and how it fits into the VS for Mac development. Chapter 5 - Building Android applications This chapter introduces Xamarin.Android and the most important concepts about Android development with C# with practical examples Chapter 6 - Building iOS applications This chapter introduces Xamarin.iOS and the most important concepts about iOS development with C# with practical examples Chapter 7 - Builiding cross-platform apps with Xamarin.Forms This chapter introduces Xamarin.Forms and showing how to create apps that run on iOS and Android by sharing the user interface and a single C# code base Chapter 8 - Platform-specific code in Xamarin.Forms This chapter explains how to invoke platform-specific APIs that are not covered by Xamarin.Forms and that is often necessary to reach the full APIs from a given system PART 3 - Building cross-platform Applications with .NET Core Chapter 9 - Introducing .NET Core This chapter provides a brief introduction about .NET Core and how it provides Mac developers to write and run C# code. Chapter 10 - Creating ASP.NET Core Web applications This chapter explains how to create an ASP.NET MVC application that runs on multiple operating systems Chapter 11 - Creating RESTful Web API services This chapter explains how to create REST services with Web API on top of .NET Core PART 4 - COLLABORATION AND PRODUCTIVITY Chapter 12 - Source Control with Git This chapter explains how to collaborate with other developers using the Git source control engine and the integrated tools in VS for Mac Chapter 13 - A deeper look at the IDE This chapter explains how to leverage additional, non-basic IDE features that will make the development experience more productive and that require the reader to be familiar in working with projects and source control. This includes IDE customizations, advanced settings, code snippets.