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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens for the twinkling clue delivery! CTOnews.com August 31, Microsoft announced that it will stop supporting Visual Studio for Mac IDE. According to reports, Visual Studio for Mac 17.6 will be available until August 31, 2024, including security patches and service updates for Apple's Mac platform.

Of course, you can still use Visual Studio for Mac after August 31, 2024, but Microsoft no longer provides maintenance.

It is worth mentioning that although Microsoft has decided to stop supporting Visual Studio for Mac, the company is still offering other alternatives to developers on Mac, such as C# Dev Kit for VS Code and other extensions, as previously reported by CTOnews.com.

So what is the impact of this decision on existing users?

Microsoft said that with today's announcement, it has begun to refocus resources and priorities to enhance cross-platform development of Visual Studio and VS Code, but will not add new framework, runtime or language support to Visual Studio for Mac.

In addition, Microsoft will continue to provide runtime and workload updates so that users can continue to develop and publish applications built on .NET 6,. NET 7, and the Mono framework.

Microsoft also mentioned that although it has no official support, it has also enabled basic support for. NET 8 in Visual Studio for Mac so that users can develop and debug applications.

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