In this recipe, we will be looking at how to get Visual Studio for Mac and install it. We will also be looking at setting up a few other things.
Make sure you have a Mac to complete this recipe. Currently, I am using macOS High Sierra version 10.13.3. Also make sure you have already installed the latest version of XCode. XCode is required, alongside Visual Studio, for Mac to build iOS applications.
- Let's open up your favorite browser.
- Type https://www.xamarin.com/download in the address bar and press Enter.
- You should see a screen similar to this:
- Now, fill in your details and press the
Download VS for Mac Community
button. - This will download a file to the
Downloads
directory by default, namedVisualStudioForMacInstaller__215259590.1517557727.dmg
or something similar (the end numbers might change when you download it.) - Double-click on that file.
- You should see a window similar to this:
- Double-click on the down arrow. In the next screen...