Visual Studio For Mac Preview

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Features

This extension provide preview of HTML which execute on web server.When you save files, this extension automatically reload browser or side panel (live preview feature).You can call these features from the context menu or editor menu.The main features are as follows.

Preview on side panel (ctrl+shift+v): Open preview of HTML on side panel. With this feature, you can easely check the operation of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Launch on browser (ctrl+shift+l): Open Web Page on default browser. You can check all operation with web page.
Stop the web server (ctrl+shift+s): Stop the web server. This feature can be used only from command palette.
Resume the web server (ctrl+shift+r): Resume the web server. This feature can be used only from command palette.
show UI Page (ctrl+shift+u): Show UI Page. You can change options at UI page.

Extension Settings

Description

This extension contributes the following settings: Nielsen and chuang solutions manual.

previewServer.browsers: Browsers to launch. Even if you do not set this option, default browser launch if the ignoreDefaultBrowser is false. Default setting is null.
previewServer.ignoreDefaultBrowser: Controls whether launch default browser or not. Default setting is false.
previewServer.isWatchConfiguration: Controls whether resume the Web Server or not, when change settings. Default setting is true.
previewServer.port: Port number of the Web Server. If you set null, vscode-preview-server generate random number, and set port as random number. Default setting is 8080.
previewServer.proxy: Set proxy. This is usefull when execute web app on another web server. Default setting is '.
previewServer.sync: Controls whether synchronized or not. Default setting is true.
previewServer.ui: Port number of UI Page. Default setting is 3001.
startupProject: Name of startup project. This setting is meaningful only when in the workspace. This value is the name of the folder. When using this workspace and omitting this value, the first folder becomes the startup project Default setting is null.

Simple example

Settings with workspace

How to build locally

Ensure that you have gulp-cli installed globally using npm i -g gulp-cli.
Run npm install to bring in the dependencies.
Run gulp build to produce i18n files.
Press F5 key to launch extension.

Known Issues

Preview on side panel somethimes don't work with CDN, Link etc.

Acknowledgements

This extension use browsersync.I would like to thank browsersync team for useful work.

Lisence

Visual Studio 2017, the latest version of Microsoft’s integrated development environment is generally available today. On this occasion, the company announced some updates to other products in the Visual Studio family, such as the release of Visual Studio for Mac Preview 4.

For those unfamiliar, the Mac version of the IDE uses the same MSBuild solution and project format as Visual Studio 2017 for Windows, which means that developers can easily develop native, web and server apps on both platforms. In a separate blog post, former Xamarin CTO Miguel de Icaza shared the following details about the new release:

Visual Studio For Mac Preview Windows 10

Visual Studio for Mac Preview 4 brings lots of new features, including updates to the Xamarin and .NET Core workloads. Preview 4 brings expanded project templates for .NET Core, as well as support for the beautiful new MSBuild .NET Core project format. The Xamarin workload has been updated to include a new iOS Audio Unit wizard, Android binding project operations, and other mobile tooling improvements. This preview also includes NuGet 4.0 support and tons of other bug fixes and performance improvements.

Visual Studio for Mac Preview 4 can be downloaded here, and we also remind you that Microsoft is holding today a live online event with Q&A sessions to help you get started with the new IDE.

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