Similar Software for Mac. Install tee-clc on Mac OSX; Install Perforce Visual Client on Mac OSX; Install Apache Directory Studio on Mac OSX; Install WireTap Studio on Mac OSX. The great thing is that you can install it side-by-side with your current Visual Studio for Mac installation. But note, you can only run the Visual Studio instance side-by-side. To also run a Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Mono, and XCode separately from the rest are a bit trickier.
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How to set up Visual Studio and Xamarin to start building mobile apps with .NET.
Installing Xamarin on Windows
Step-by-step instructions
Xamarin can be installed as part of a new Visual Studio 2019 installation, with the following steps:
Download Visual Studio 2019 Community, Visual Studio Professional, orVisual Studio Enterprise from theVisual Studio page (downloadlinks are provided at the bottom).
Double-click the downloaded package to start installation.
Select the Mobile development with .NET workload from theinstallation screen:
When you are ready to begin Visual Studio 2019 installation, click theInstall button in the lower right-hand corner:
Use the progress bars to monitor the installation:
When Visual Studio 2019 installation has completed, click the Launchbutton to start Visual Studio:
Adding Xamarin to Visual Studio 2019
If Visual Studio 2019 is already installed, add Xamarin byre-running the Visual Studio 2019 installer to modify workloads (seeModify Visual Studiofor details). Next, follow the steps listed above to install Xamarin.
For more information about downloading and installing Visual Studio2019, see Install Visual Studio 2019.
Installing Xamarin on Windows
Step-by-step instructions
Xamarin can be installed as part of a new Visual Studio 2017 installation, with the following steps:
Download Visual Studio 2017 Community, Visual Studio Professional, orVisual Studio Enterprise from theVisual Studio page (downloadlinks are provided at the bottom).
Double-click the downloaded package to start installation.
Select the Mobile development with .NET workload from theinstallation screen:
While Mobile development with .NET is selected, have a look atthe Installation details panel on the right. Here, you can deselectmobile development options that you do not want to install.
When you are ready to begin Visual Studio 2017 installation, click theInstall button in the lower right-hand corner:
Depending on which edition of Visual Studio 2017 you are installing, theinstallation process can take a long time to complete. You can usethe progress bars to monitor the installation:
When Visual Studio 2017 installation has completed, click the Launchbutton to start Visual Studio:
Adding Xamarin to Visual Studio 2017
If Visual Studio 2017 is already installed, add Xamarin byre-running the Visual Studio 2017 installer to modify workloads (seeModify Visual Studiofor details). Next, follow the steps listed above to install Xamarin.
For more information about downloading and installing Visual Studio2017, see Install Visual Studio 2017.
Installing Xamarin on macOS
Step-by-step instructions
In addition to this video, there is a step-by-step installation guidethat covers Visual Studio for Mac and Xamarin.
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When you open up Xamarin Studio on the Mac it should prompt to update, or you can tap the Xamarin Studio in the toolbar up top and go to check for updates: https://developer.xamarin.com/recipes/cross-platform/ide/change_updates_channel/
You will also need to update Xcode to 8.0 from the app store.
Hi James, Thank you for the response. Xcode is already updated on my Mac and there are no other pending updates.
I opened Xamarin Studio on my Mac and it picked up several updates which were then downloaded and installed - and I'm back up and running. Thank you very much
One thing I still don't understand though - and I don't need this right now, but I would imagine I will - my iPhone is now running IOS 10 so I cna carry on developing and testing on that. Next week, when hopefully I'll be ready to submit my app tp the app store, how can I select an older IOS version and debug / test for that?
Thanks,
Emily
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Hi @JamesMontemagno Updating Xamarin for Visual Studio 2015 on PC and Xamarin Studio for Mac on Mac Build Host went well and everything thing works fine for Android and iOS. Thanks Couple of queries though:
Xamarin Studio is upgraded to Community Version 6.3 (build 864). I was curious, why community? Isn't it full edition? Do I need to do some kind of activation to have full edition or its ok.
Xamarin.iOS for Visual Studio on PC has version is 10.10.0.35 where as on Mac it is 10.10.0.36.
Please advise.
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i'm using visual studio 2017 , i click on visual studio up and then click on check updates , i noticed that xamarin.ios 11.0.0 already downloaded but it seems need to be installed because i'm still facing the error on windows machine : The installed Xamarin.iOS (version 10.12) on the Mac Unnamed Server is not compatible with the local Xamarin.iOS (version 11.0).
@joesleiman You may already have figured this out but XCode 9 requires a separate download from the app store, it doesn't seem to update from 8. That is what you need. I had same issue tonight