I want to install Visual Studio on macOS. Is this possible?
In November 2016, we introduced Visual Studio for Mac, the newest member of the Visual Studio family. Visual Studio for Mac is a developer environment optimized for building mobile and cloud apps with Xamarin. Visual Studio Express is a very popular Integrated Development Environment (IDE) package from Microsoft built to be a lightweight alternative to the full package of Visual Studio. The toolset of the Visual Studio Express is little smaller than the full IDE packages, but all the necessary features are present in it to create both native Windows applications and Windows 8 Metro-Style applications.
In November 2016, we introduced Visual Studio for Mac, the newest member of the Visual Studio family. Visual Studio for Mac is a developer environment optimized for building mobile and cloud apps with Xamarin. Is it possible to use Visual Studio on macOS? Ask Question. Visual Studio 6 and visual studio 2005 express edition have gold ratings on Wine's application database. 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. In this video i try to show you how to register Visual Studio Express 2012 for Desktop. Do this way too if you want register Visual Studio Express 2010, Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web. 'Express 2012 for Windows 8' allows you to build Windows 8 Metro Apps,while 'Express 2012 for Windows Desktop' allows you to build traditional Windows Form Applications, WPF,Win32 Console applications (languages:Visual Basic 2012, Visual C++, C#). Visual Studio Express is a stripped-down version of Visual Studio for students and hobbyists, first introduced with Visual Studio 2005 and discontinued with Visual Studio 2015. Originally, it consisted of several editions, each of which targeted a single programming language.
dayanruben7 Answers
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.
aevankoaevankoI 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.
GelatinGelatinThere 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.
Delan AzabaniDelan AzabaniWhile 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.
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| Name | Support Status(as at latest NCrunch version) | Notes |
| Visual Studio | ||
| Visual Studio Express(2008-2013) | no | Older versions of Visual Studio Express do not support 3rd party VS packages such as NCrunch. |
| Visual Studio Express/Community(2015+) | yes | |
| Visual Studio 2008 | yes | The corner status spinner and coverage marker customisations are not supported under VS2008. |
| Visual Studio 2010 | yes | |
| Visual Studio 2012 | yes | |
| Visual Studio 2013 | yes | |
| Visual Studio 2015 | yes | |
| Visual Studio 2017 | yes | |
| Visual Studio 2019 | yes | |
| Visual Studio for Mac (All versions) | no | |
| Core Frameworks | ||
| .NET Framework v1.1 | no | No planned support |
| .NET Framework v2.0-v4.8 | yes | |
| DNX/.xproj/project.json | no | Microsoft have deprecated this framework and NCrunch does not support it. Please upgrade to .NET Core under VS2017+ instead. |
| .NET Standard | yes | Can be tested from .NET Core test projects |
| .NET Core / .NET Standard | yes | VS2017 or above required. |
| Windows Universal Apps | no | No planned support |
| Windows Store Apps | partial | Sandboxing support withdrawn with the release of VS2015 and Windows 10 (details) |
| Windows Phone Apps | partial | Projects will build, but the Windows Phone environment is not emulated by NCrunch, so tests requiring emulation will fail to run. |
| Silverlight(all versions) | partial | Projects will build, but SL based test environments are not supported. Code can be tested via project references from non-SL test projects |
| Azure Projects | no | Azure projects are currently not supported by NCrunch. |
| Xamarin | no | Not currently supported. |
| Languages | ||
| C# | yes | |
| VB.NET | yes | |
| F# | yes | |
| C++(CLR and Native) | no | Many projects will build, but code coverage and C++ based testing frameworks are not supported. |
| Javascript | no | JS and JS-based testing frameworks are currently not supported by NCrunch. |
| Testing Frameworks | ||
| NUnit | yes | |
| MS Test | yes | |
| Xunit | yes | Direct integration from Xunit V2+. Xunit V1 integration works through Gallio. |
| MSpec | yes | |
| MbUnit | yes | |
| SpecFlow | yes | Supported through MSTest/NUnit/xUnit integration (SpecRun currently not supported) |
| Mocking Frameworks | ||
| Non-profiler based frameworks(i.e. Moq, RhinoMocks, etc) | yes | |
| TypeMock Isolator | yes | Early versions of Isolator 7 have reported issues with NCrunch. Ensure you use the latest version |
| Telerik JustMock | yes | |
| Microsoft Moles | no | Moles requires a proprietary profiler to be loaded which is not supported by NCrunch. Future support is not planned in NCrunch because Microsoft Fakes has replaced Moles |
| Microsoft Fakes | yes | Supported from NCrunch V2 onwards |
Visual Studio Express 2012 For Mac
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