Update install docs for .NET 8 #38047
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Co-authored-by: Tom Dykstra <[email protected]>
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| | 8.0 | Visual Studio 2022 for Mac 17.8 or higher. | | |||
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Hello @gewarren ,
My client is looking to migrate a large scale Xamarin.Native app to .NET style. For IDE we are using Visual Studio for Mac 2022. Noticed that in this document, it mentioned .NET 8 will be supported by Visual Studio 2022 for Mac 17.8 or higher.
Currently Visual Studio for Mac 2022 is up to 17.6.8 (Release Notes https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/mac-release-notes#17.6.8)
Does it mean there will be a 17.8 for macOS version to be released before the it's retirement in Auguest 2024? (Visual Studio for Windows does have 17.8 released to support .NET 8)
Thanks
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@thomaschenato Sorry, you are correct. Based on https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/8.0, it looks like version 17.6 is enough for .NET 8. I'll update this page.
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@gewarren Thank you for the response.
It seems a Preview Feature in Visual Studio for Mac 2022 17.6.
From your end, do you know if there will ever be an Visual Studio for Mac 2022 update that will officially support .NET SDK 8?
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Adding @ghogen to help answer your question.
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Unfortunately I don't think so. What's happening to Visual Studio for Mac? clarifies this. Some key points I pulled from the article:
- Support ends this year on Aug 31st.
- Microsoft doesn't plan to add support for .NET 8 or C#12 to Visual Studio for Mac.
- VSCode is the replacement on Mac.
It seems someone on that team added .NET 8 as a "preview feature" simply because it's planned as not supported but wanted to give it people before VS on Mac died. 😢
I'll update this article to indicate this a Preview feature, and cross-link to this other article to indicate the future of VS for Mac.
Contributes to #34171.
@adegeo If you were planning to update these yourself, I can close the PR. Also, I didn't update the Linux install docs in this PR, but let me know if you want me to.
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