I'm eager to start developing for WP7, but restarting my Mac to boot Windows seems pretty annoying. Is there any usable ways of WP7 development on Mac except virtual machines?
Thanks in regards.
VM is not an option, the Windows Phone emulator will not run from within a VM (here's an answer to an earlier SO question stating the reasons for that). The only option is to shutdown and boot Windows, however annoying that may be.
To develop WP7 using IDE such as Visual Studio .NET you have to work on Windows. So the only way is too install virtualisation such as VMWare Fusion or Parallel for MAC.
Hope this helps.
DCA
You might be able to use the open source .Net implementation Mono, but in order to actually test your applications and install them onto a WP7 device, you need Zune and that is not available on OS X.
The best option would be a VM to run Windows and Visual Studio.
Visual Studio 2017 is now available on Mac. I haven't play with it yet, but it should at least support developing mobile apps using Xamarin. Another good news is that there is free VS version (community edition):
https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/
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I recently bought an iMac in order to develop my App on Visual Studio for Mac in a better environment (lots of issues on Windows), but on the Visual Studio for mac, there is no UWP projects.
It is understood that I have to create a new .NET project, but what are exactly the steps to follow in order to achieve that correctly for the app to work on Windows with a peace of mind? Should I have gone with Visual Studio code, which support the .NET core framework completely?
I saw on other answers that I need the .NET SDK tool, and so forth, but further details are needed if you don't mind on the why (not the installation stuffs, only the tech savvy explanations for the app to build correctly at the end!
You will need to run a Windows installation (eg, via Parallels or Boot Camp) and then run the Windows version of Visual Studio to create UWP apps.
You can do a lot of the business-logic coding inside Visual Studio on MacOS, but you will need Visual Studio and the Windows SDK to use WinRT types (which are required to build a UWP app) and to correctly build / package the app for deployment.
.NET is a big ecosystem. As you cannot develop all kinds of .NET projects using Visual Studio on Windows (Xamarin.Mac for example), you cannot do the same using Visual Studio for Mac (like you found, WinForms/WPF/UWP and so on). Such limitation comes from vendor SDK availability or other underlying systems.
In your case, you can easily develop web apps, Mac apps, and iOS apps. If you do want to develop Windows specific apps, like the other answer shows, please use Windows.
You mentioned ".NET SDK", but I believe that should be ".NET Core SDK". .NET Core apps are cross platform. Thus, you can develop such apps in Visual Studio for Mac, and then deploy to Windows. However, so far only console apps and web apps can be developed. What might happen in the future is still to be determined.
Visual Studio Code, however, is just a code editor. It won't give you extra flexibility.
For those whom imperatively needs to develop their app on all platforms, here is what I did, and the pros and cons:
Buying an Imac, thinking that I could also develop UWP projects within it
After realizing that I couldn't, I bought a cheap Windows 7 pro License on ebay (around 5$), and installed it on VirtualBox.
From there, I upgraded to Windows 10 for free and installed everything. It worked like a charm.
Cons: Buying a brand new IMac while a Macbook pro would have been better. An old one even since YOU CAN'T upgrade the ram.
Working on 8go of ram computer when you must give 4go of RAM to your VM isn't quite great. 4go gets you a laggy environment! Really frustrating.
So, prefer something older, but up-gradable (a cheap Macbook pro with 16go of RAM would do).
Not to mention that you will have to install Ubuntu as another VM in order to setup a .Net core Server for the majority of you.
What environment to favor while developing, most importantly when you are a C# and Xamarin noob like me?
The best being to develop from Mac as you will have FAR LESS ERRORS AND BUGS than in VS for Windows.
Correcting mistakes is really daunting and the best is really to develop from Mac to mitigate the damages, but it won't be hurdles free as well!
It took me more time debugging than coding within VS Windows.
After developing chunk of your app within Visual Studio MAC, the best is to get the code on the windows machine and arrange it to work in UWP.
UWP apps compile fastly and like a charm, so better is to get rid of errors within macOS, IOS, Android, and then go and adapt to UWP. This is easier IF YOU THINK ABOUT CHOOSING THE CORRECT LIBRARIES (working on all platforms, hence check my last advice).
From VS Mac, compile using macOS as a host! It's the easiest way to develop fastly, and correct your bugs.
Here is an article on how to get started from Mac:
https://blog.xamarin.com/preview-bringing-macos-to-xamarin-forms/
Cons: Always having to commit the code for it's use within UWP. But that's also a good way to save your project as well, so that if you screw up (like it happened to me numerous time) you roll back.
Hope that helps others whom didn't know what to do and where to start.
ALSO:
Don't follow tutorials dating from before 2017. Use the .Netstandard/.NET Core framework to develop your App so that libraries are more portable (following the blog article above should do).
Otherwise, headaches ahead!
I'm new to programming, and still learning. Anyway, is it possible to use Visual Studio for Apache Cordova on OS X? Or do I have to use Virtual Machine for Windows?
If I want to make apps for both iOS and Android, do I need to write my code twice? (Hybrid Mobile App).
You can use Visual Studio on your mac by running Windows 8.1 or 10 in a virtual machine or using bootcamp to boot directly into windows 8.1 or 10.
I personally use the virtual machine approach for my development. Using a Mac with a Windows VM I can target iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. You can read my blog post here on how to setup your environment (you might also want to check out part 1 as well):
http://trunica.net/building-hybrid-mobile-apps-part-2.html
No you do not need to write your code twice. That's the beauty of Cordova! About 95% to close 100% of your code should be exactly the same across the platforms.
You can use Cordova directly on your Mac if you want and develop for both iOS and Android without using Visual Studio. I do however recommend using Visual Studio since it adds a lot of nice features for development (additional emulators, easier configuration, etc...).
as Brad said, you can't use Visual Studio without a Windows. But, the Visual Studio Development Team built a CLI called TACO (Tools for Apache Cordova)
With that cli, you have some features very cool for beginners. Take a look http://taco.tools/docs/getting-started.html
A windows applicatio is developed in Visual Studio 2010 and teh database used was MS Access. Can i run it directly in MAC. i.e. using the EXE or do i have to do some setting or is it not possible at all.
You cannot run windows application directly in MAC OS at all! But there is such a enviropment like - mono, which allows to compile the C# and .NET platform solutions for other OS. Feel free to use google with query - Mono develop.
From my experience - Mono isn't stable and didn't work as fine as Visual studio.
No you can not.
EXE is a windows executable file format and thus don't work on OS X, linux or any other Unix based OS. As mentioned you can use parallels wich cost money. There is a free alternative called VirtualBox. This does not provide the same features, but you have to decide for yourself.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
http://www.parallels.com/eu/
Here is a guide to how you set up VirtualBox on your MAC -> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/virtualbox-running-windows-on-a-mac-for-free-sort-of/
I'm developing applications for iPhone and Android on my Mac, but now I want to port them to Windows Mobile. I know that it requires Visual Studio, but that's just if you want to make .Net applications. Then I want to know if there is any alternative, something like Mono...
Windows Phone 7 (unlike Windows Mobile) is quite a closed system with one development environment supported. I.e. you are stuck with Visual Studio and, consequently, Windows.
Update: Windows Mobile 6.x is not much better for MacOS developer. For .NET CF you use Visuaal Studio 2005 or 2008. For native code development you could use Visual Studio 2005 (if memory serves) or, before it, there existed eMbedded Visual Studio 4 (and embedded visual tools 3 earlier), both being similar to Visual Studio 6 (and probably built using the same code base).
Alternatives included FreePascal (Pascal language, native code compilation) and NSBasic (interpreted BASIC language, if memory serves).
But all those tools were for Windows only.
You'll need Visual Studio for both managed and native Windows Mobile applications. I don't think Mono supports .NETCF and I don't think SharpDevelop does either.
You might need to install a Windows virtual machine to run on your Mac. Or... get a PC for Windows development. I have both a PC and Mac workstation on my desk since I do iPhone, Android, and .NET all together.
I am actually looking at starting a project to do this using Mono and Moonlight. Granted, I am in the very early stages of research but I think that it can be done and I am hoping to start getting some people together to help in the near future. I will post the github repo back here when I get something going.
PLease have a look into this
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/12/21/how-to-develop-for-windows-phone-8-on-your-mac.aspx
there is this Visual studio code which can be leveraged to initiate and test some basic wiMo app development
Folks,
I need to maintain a C#/.Net desktop application. So, I need to set myself up with Windows(7?) and Visual Studio.
My current development machine is a Macbook Pro and I would like to continue using it. Overall, I am considering the following recipe:
Install VMWare Fusion or Parallels or VirtualBox for running the Windows OS
Buy a version of Windows to develop on
Buy Windows Developer tools
Having been in the open source universe all this time, I am utterly unfamiliar with the options/packages in the Windows world. I could use some help on the following:
Does the recipe above look fine, or do I need to change something?
What is a good VM environment to buy/use? VirtualBox is free, but Parallels/VMWare promise Windows app that blend in with my Mac windows. Could use some help on this topic
Does MSFT sell a package deal which has bare bones Windows 7 and the necessary dev tools, or do I need to buy the OS and dev tools separately?
Since I only need Windows to churn this C# desktop application, What is the OS version and flavor or Visual Studio I should get?
Thanks in advance for any pointers.
-Raj
* Does the recipe above look fine, or do I need to change something?
Looks fine to me, it is what I do too.
* What is a good VM environment to buy/use? VirtualBox is free, but
Parallels/VMWare promise Windows app that blend in with my Mac windows.
Could use some help on this topic
I've used parallels and VMware fusion and I prefer VMware because I can move machines to other VMware hosts relatively easily. They seem to flip-flop when it comes to performance, but I think this week, Parallels is a little faster (of course this might change with the next fusion update, or the next parallels update).
* Does MSFT sell a package deal which has bare bones Windows 7 and the
necessary dev tools, or do I need to buy the OS and dev tools separately?
I think that this depends on what you are doing. If you purchase an MSDN subscription, you get software that you can use for development (including all windows versions). But if you just purchase Visual Studio, then you need to buy the OS too.
* Since I only need Windows to churn this C# desktop application,
What is the OS version and flavor or
Visual Studio I should get?
You should get whichever OS versions you intend to support your application on.
Good luck,
--jed
Doesn't a Mac have Boot Camp? If so, use that.
It looks fine though. You must buy the OS then the Dev tools (There's Visual C# Express for free though). I would get Windows 7 and either the newest Visual Studio (2008, but 2010 is being released on April 12).
I've used both Bootcamp and VMWare Fusion with 15" MacBook Pro for quite a while (2013 and 2018 models). Bootcamp is better in terms of battery life. Though in terms of performance, Windows VM under macOS can be a better dev box due to significant difference in SSD performance - it's way faster in VM rather than in Bootcamp, especially in random reads/writes (which is crucial for project build time).