I want to install Visual Studio on macOS. Is this possible?
Yes! You can use the new Visual Studio for Mac, which Microsoft launched in November.
Read about it here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/mt790182
Download a preview version here: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/
I recently purchased a MacBook Air (mid-2011 model) and was really happy to find that Apple officially supports Windows 7. If you purchase Windows 7 (I got DSP), you can use the Boot Camp assistant in OSX to designate part of your hard drive to Windows. Then you can install and run Windows 7 natively as if it were as Windows notebook.
I use Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7 on my MacBook Air (I kept OSX as well) and I could not be happier. Heck, the initial start-up of the program only takes 3 seconds thanks to the SSD.
As others have mentions, you can run it on OSX using Parallels, etc. but I prefer to run it natively.
I guess you can install it via Parallel or in any other Virtual machine with windows in it
No. Neither Visual Studio or the .NET framework will run on Mac OSX (although the latter is changing). However, if you want to write an application in a similar framework, you could use Mono and MonoDevelop.
There is no native version of Visual Studio for Mac OS X.
Almost all versions of Visual Studio have a Garbage rating on Wine's application database, so Wine isn't an option either, sadly.
While Parallels is technically a VM it is capable of running games in high resolution at a high frame rate. If you run Parallels in Coherence mode it completely integrates Windows 7 into OS X and .Net framework is fully supported. So yes you can install Visual Studio on your Mac however the Apps you created would only run of windows computers unless they were web based.
Yes, you can! There's a Visual Studio for macs and there's Visual Studio Code if you only need a text editor like Sublime Text.
Current Visual Studio versions (2019, 2022) are targeted specifically for Mac as well.
I found Microsoft’s Visual Studio for Mac getting complete overhaul with native UI and more pretty enligthing
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I'm getting started with Xamarin. I have VisualStudio 2017 installed on a Windows 10 machine. I need to develop for both Android and iOS so I'm drafting requirements for the Mac I'm going to ask my boss to buy. If I ask for a Mac running VisualStudio 2019 for Mac (so it will more easily scale when we get around to upgrading to VisualStudio 2019 in Windows), will that pair with a Windows machine running VisualStudio 2017?
Yes and no. Strictly speaking only versions of the .Net framework need to match. Technically you don't even need to have a complete VS for the Mac for the connection to work.
But as the easiest way to connect is to have VS for the Mac you probably do want to match the versions.
I have been a seasoned .Net + Azure developer with master over all short-cuts & popular extensions available. I use Visual Studio even for Node Js development. I am trying to make a switch to MAC which seems impossible :-(
Quite surprised that even basic options like Open WebSite has been
missing in Visual Studio For MAC.
Has any of expert community member here, tried switching to VS for MAC and
found a way to open website written in Angular or React?
As Microsoft's website states, Visual Studio for Mac is a completely new IDE which needs a lot of development before you should use it for your real projects.
I would highly recommend to run a virtual Windows machine (or even Windows itself) on your Mac.
You could try though, to use Visual Studio Code with AngularJS on your Mac.
Edit 08.03.2018: by now Microsoft has done a lot for Visual Studio Mac. What you want will probably work.
Today is 2020 dec, I still cannot find the website feature in vs Mac. But it's reasonable because .net based website is run in Windows server. It doesn’t make sense to build in mac but execute in windows.
I installed Xamarin with Visual studio 2015, they worked well until I installed visual studio emulator for android, every time when I install it, windows couldn't start and stuck at windows logo for hours, Windows couldn't boot unless I restore system..
Do you have any suggestion to solve this problem ? or are there any emulator compatible with visual studio instead ?
p.s. my OS is windows 8.1 x64
I have only ever been able to get one VS Android emulator to work, but that is mainly because I use VM for Windows and only have 4GB ram assigned to it, and many of the emulator images need almost all of that.
That said, Google's Android emulators have gotten pretty good, especially if you install the Intel HAXM Accelerator included in the Android SDK. Instructions to install the HAXM Accelerator:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/android/articles/installation-instructions-for-intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager-windows
And also make sure you update your Android SDK in the SdK Manager to get all of the latest stuff (with the exception of Preview N packages as Xamarin does not fully support N yet, and also do not install Build Tools version 24. there are issues with those build tools and Xamarin at this point. See https://releases.xamarin.com/technical-bulletin-android-sdk-build-tools-24/
Most probably this happens due to the Hyper-V. Microsoft emulator requires Hyper-V but if your computer doesn't support it for a reason or another that might very well happen.
To check this theory, enable Hyper-V by yourself (Programs and Features/Turn Windows features on or off, Hyper-V/Hyper-V Platform).
Other emulators don't require Hyper-V, so, if that's a problem you can still pick among Google's (free), Xamarin's (free) and Genymotion (commercial).
My team uses .Net and I need to work them though I would like to do it from my Mac. Is VS Code useful or should I use online Visual Studio? What's the best way to work with fellow .Net developers on my Mac.
Before Microsoft ships a full VS in OS X, you will have to run a desktop virtualization stack such as VMware Fusion to run Windows VM there or use Bootcamp to dual boot.
Visual Studio Code or Xamarin Studio might help in a few cases, but none of them claims to replace VS.
I was wondering if Microsoft has Visual Studio available for MAC?
If yes, where can I get it?
If you are looking for full fledged Visual Studio IDE for Mac, it is not possible for now. But you may try Visual Studio Code, which is not really there yet. Else, worst case scenario is that you use Bootcamp or Parallels Desktop to have a Windows VM followed by installation of Visual Studio.
As far as I am aware, Visual Studio is not available on OS X. Apple offers its own free IDE, however, called Xcode. You can download it for free, though you may need to register with the Apple developer network (at no cost). I'm not much of a fanboy of either Microsoft or Apple, but if you want an IDE for developing for OS X (or iOS) then Xcode would be the most conventional choice.