#Visual studio community mac windows app for free#

Here is an article on how to get started from Mac:Ĭons: Always having to commit the code for it's use within UWP. This is easier IF YOU THINK ABOUT CHOOSING THE CORRECT LIBRARIES (working on all platforms, hence check my last advice).įrom VS Mac, compile using macOS as a host! It's the easiest way to develop fastly, and correct your bugs. 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. It took me more time debugging than coding within VS Windows.Īfter 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. The best being to develop from Mac as you will have FAR LESS ERRORS AND BUGS than in VS for Windows.Ĭorrecting 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! What environment to favor while developing, most importantly when you are a C# and Xamarin noob like me?.Not to mention that you will have to install Ubuntu as another VM in order to setup a. So, prefer something older, but up-gradable (a cheap Macbook pro with 16go of RAM would do). 4go gets you a laggy environment! Really frustrating.

Working on 8go of ram computer when you must give 4go of RAM to your VM isn't quite great. An old one even since YOU CAN'T upgrade the ram.

It worked like a charm.Ĭons: Buying a brand new IMac while a Macbook pro would have been better.

#Visual studio community mac windows app for free#

Buying an Imac, thinking that I could also develop UWP projects within itĪfter realizing that I couldn't, I bought a cheap Windows 7 pro License on ebay (around 5$), and installed it on VirtualBox.įrom there, I upgraded to Windows 10 for free and installed everything.For those whom imperatively needs to develop their app on all platforms, here is what I did, and the pros and cons: