We will take a look at how to create an application on Windows using Visual Studio 2017 and then running that application on a Mac. This kind of application development was previously impossible as you could not run code compiled for Windows on a Mac. .NET Core changes all this.
Creating a simple .NET Core application and running it on a Mac
Getting ready
You will need access to a Mac in order to run the application you created. I'm using a Mac mini (late 2012) with a 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU running macOS Sierra with 4GB of memory.
In order to use your .NET Core apps on a Mac, there are a few things you need to do:
- We need to install Homebrew, which is used to get the latest version of OpenSSL. Open the Terminal on your Mac by typing Terminal into your Spotlight...