Visual Studio for Mac – Where should we focus?

Hi!

My name is Jordan and I'm a product owner of Microsoft Visual Studio for Mac. If you've got a quick 5 minutes to spare, I'd like to get your suggestions on where our team should focus our efforts in the months ahead.

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* 1. What's the primary reason you’re using Visual Studio for Mac?

I am using it for projects at my full or part time job

I am using it for school projects

I am using it for personal/side projects

I am using it to learn a new technology (without guidance from a teacher)

Other (please specify)

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* 2. If you have used Visual Studio IDE on Windows, how long have you used it?

I've never used it before

Less than 6 months

Between 6 - 12 months

Between 1 - 5 years

Between 5 - 10 years

More than 10 years

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* 3. Select the types of projects you're working on in Visual Studio for Mac.

Developing with Azure Functions

Developing Web API projects

Developing Web applications with Razor

Developing Web applications with MVC

Developing Web applications with Blazor

Developing Web front-ends with javascript (e.g. Angular/React/Vue.js)

Developing Mobile applications with Xamarin

Developing Games with Unity

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* 4. If you were in charge of the Visual Studio for Mac roadmap, how would you rank the following items?
(with 1 being the most impactful to you and the last item being least impactful)

Peek definition (e.g. go to method definitions within a window embedded in the editor)

CodeLens support (showing references above method headers)

Performance analysis/diagnostic tools

Improving support when changing Git branches via external tools

Editing .resx files with a UI designer

Split view for a single file (viewing two parts of a code file at the same time)

Updating the UI to match more with Visual Studio on Windows (matching look and feel, instead of new features)

Matching the default keyboard shortcuts with Visual Studio on Windows

Visual Studio Live Share (Real-time collaborative editing & debugging)

Increase the number of extensions

Adding support for new Git tooling (e.g. Pull Requests, merge conflict management)

Visual Studio IntelliCode (AI-assisted code suggestions)

Other (specify below)

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* 5. Please tell us more about why you made your top few choices.

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* 6. (Optional) I'd love to chat and learn more about your experience so we can improve Visual Studio for Mac. Leave your contact info and I'll follow up to schedule some brief time for us to talk.

Your Name

Your Email

Your Company

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* 1. What's the primary reason you’re using Visual Studio for Mac?

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* 2. If you have used Visual Studio IDE on Windows, how long have you used it?

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* 3. Select the types of projects you're working on in Visual Studio for Mac.

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* 4. If you were in charge of the Visual Studio for Mac roadmap, how would you rank the following items?(with 1 being the most impactful to you and the last item being least impactful)

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* 5. Please tell us more about why you made your top few choices.

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* 6. (Optional) I'd love to chat and learn more about your experience so we can improve Visual Studio for Mac. Leave your contact info and I'll follow up to schedule some brief time for us to talk.

* 4. If you were in charge of the Visual Studio for Mac roadmap, how would you rank the following items?
(with 1 being the most impactful to you and the last item being least impactful)