In August 2023, Microsoft made an official announcement regarding the retirement of Visual Studio for Mac, scheduled to take place by August 31, 2024 (in another 6 months), as stated in a blog post here. In the same blog post, Visual Studio Code along with the C# Dev Kit is projected as a viable alternative…

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Microsoft announces the retirement of Visual Studio for Mac and suggests Visual Studio Code as an alternative for cross-platform .NET development. The post provides instructions on installing the .NET MAUI extension in Visual Studio Code and creating a new .NET MAUI project.

Using Visual Studio Code for .NET MAUI Development