A month ago, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 6 and made a lot of bug fixes and improvements to the native UI. Now, Microsoft has rolled out Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 7, and like its predecessors, it includes a slew of bug fixes, UI improvements, and support for more tools.
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In Preview 7, Microsoft fixed some stability and crash issues, fixed shortcuts on Spanish keyboard layouts, also ensured that breakpoints work when debugging libraries, and many other things.
Moreover, Microsoft is continuing to use native macOS UI controls and design language in Visual Studio. Preview 7 extends this to cover Snippets, C# code formatting, external tools, and behavior screens for CSS, HTML, and JSON. This basically means that the entire preference UI has been migrated to the native macOS design.
Furthermore, Microsoft has also put a lot of work into the Xamarin mobile tools in this release, having previously stated that it would not accept feedback on Xamarin in Preview 6. The latest release packs over 50 bug fixes for mobile workloads.
Microsoft notes that once the Visual Studio 17.0 release reaches General Availability (GA), Xamarin will reach a stable state for developers. However, support for .NET MAUI will not meet this deadline, but Microsoft is continuing to work on it.
