Choosing useful Visual Studio 2019 for Mac extensions

Unlike VS Code and Visual Studio 2019 for Windows, Visual Studio 2019 for Mac is a newer offering and hasn't really had time to build the following that the other two flavors have. As such, the number of extensions available pale in comparison. That isn't to say that there aren't any available, and there are a number of them that you should definitely install, but they tend to fill a very specific purpose. Here are a few of our favorites.

LiveXAML for Xamarin.Forms

Developing Xamarin apps and constantly editing, pushing to the emulator, loading the app, looking at the rendered output, stopping the app, changing the XAML, and repeating the process can get very tedious quickly. LiveXAML activates when you start the debugger and automatically updates the view in the app as you make changes to the XAML in Visual Studio:

Figure 16.13 – Editing XAML with live results in the debugger

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