I will start with empty macOS Cocoa/C# application. Under the hood, accessing native macOS APIs is the same as with Objective-C or Swift development. NET developers to develop full native Mac applications with C#. I will show what is possible and how to start with macOS desktop development with C#.įor me, writing C# application targeting macOS sounds like science fiction.

In this blog, I will focus on macOS desktop development with C#.

NET desktop development stacks are available only for Windows. NET Core 3.0 was extended with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Widows Forms. NET Core and Xamarin’s mobile-based applications enable cross platform development. We all know that console-based, web-based. NET Core, Xamarin and related technologies, this changed. NET developers were limited to develop applications strictly for Windows environment.īut with. NET developer so this post is (I guess) a bit out-of-my-course. This can be beneficial to other community members reading this thread.To be honest, I have never believed that I will write about developing Mac applications with C#. Please remember to click 'Mark as Answer' the responses that resolved your issue, and to click 'Unmark as Answer' if not. Or debugging on Windows, we recommend you use a version of Visual Studio such as Visual Studio Community. If you just want a lightweight tool to edit your C++ files, VS Code has you covered but if you want the best possible experience for your existing Visual C++ projects Create a VM that OS is windows, then install theĪnd choose the option C++ to install during the VS installation.Visual Studio Code and C/C++ build tools, please have a look at blog:īuilding your C++ application with Visual Studio Code > So, how can I write and run c++ programs on Visual Studio on a Mac?Īs far as I know, there have two options as below: Support C++ in Visual Studio for Mac and you can vote it, then waiting for the feedback from the Visual Studio Product Team.

Visual Studio Product Team, please check this:

There has no option to create C++ project in this version and some other community members reported this suggestion to the The Visual Studio for Mac, it is a developer environment optimized for building mobile and cloud apps with Xamarin and. Now we have two Visual Studio versions (Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Code) that can directly install on the Mac (macOS), refer to your description, it looks like you installed

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