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Visual Studio for Mac distributes updates for the IDE and supported frameworks on a regular basis. These updates can be in the form of new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
Visual Studio for Mac provides two channels to get these latest versions:
Stable - Provides thoroughly tested updates. This channel is recommended for the best development experience.
Preview - Provides early access to updates that are candidates for release in the Stable Channel. These releases may not be reliable for everyday use.
Checking for updates
You can use the Visual Studio Updater box to check for new updates, change channels, and download and install updates.
To open the Visual Studio Updater, browse to Visual Studio > Check for Updates:
This displays the updater box:
Changing the Updater channel
To change the channel select it from the channel drop down and press the Switch Channel button:
Downloading and installing updates
Switching channels automatically starts the download process of new updates.
If you have selected the option to Check Automatically, the updater box will pop up when Visual Studio for Mac is open to let you know that new updates are available. New downloads will start downloading automatically to your machine when this box appears.
To start installing updates, select the Restart and Install Updates button:
Depending on the components that need to be installed, you may need to accept additional licenses or enter your machine's administrator username and password.
Troubleshooting
If you have issues with the updater, try following the steps in the Updater Troubleshooting guide.
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With the introduction of the latest MacOS version (Catalina), this system requires all applications to be notarized by apple. So the current installation of VSCode still needs to be updated by Microsoft, however until that happens and unfortunately you are testing the new os and need to run VSCode, the solution for this problem though, is quite simple.
In this article we will show you how to bypass this issue using 3 options.
A. Move VSCode to Applications and open it through the context menu
As first option, you can simply move the VSCode application to the Applications directory of your Mac and then, simply do right click on the app and click on open:
This will open the same exception window, however you should now see the option to open the application anyway. After that, the application should start without inconvenients:
B. Remove quarantine attribute from application using xattr
If through the easy way it didn't work, you can easily force the application to open normally removing the quarantine attribute that is added to file after the system tries to open it using xattr in the command line. Open the terminal and run the following command:
After removing the attribute, you should be able to open the application.
C. Open from Security & Preferences
Alternatively, you can open the app from the Security & Privacy window. To do this, go to your System Preferences and select Security & Privacy, the following window will appear:
Visual Studio Code For Updated Macos 2017
In the general tab, you should see the Visual Studio Code application listed with the message that it's blocked. You can simply click on Open Anyway: