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Development Tools Installation

Posted by malikbellamy
malikbellamy
104 Points

Is there a version of Visual Studio that can be used on a Mac OS?

I just watched video, and was wondering?

8 Answers

micram1001
micram1001
33,833 Points

If your programming in C#, you can use MonoDevelop on a Mac (http://www.monodevelop.com/).

William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

thanks for mentioning Mono :thumbsup:, I totally forgot about this cross-platform IDE for .NET :grinning:

William Li
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William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

VIsual Studio is WIndows only. Your best bet is to install a version of WIndow OS on Mac as virtual machine using VirtualBox or VMware.

Microsoft also released Visual Studio Code that runs cross-platform (Mac included), it's free, and open sourced code editor (NOT IDE) based on Visual Studio, more of less. I haven't tried it out yet, feel free to check it out if that interests you.

Cheers.

William Li
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William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Hi Shelley Hicklin

Like Sublime and Atom, Visual Studio Code is just a code editor, nothing more, whereas Visual Studio is a full-fledged IDE. I'd assume that you can get through the C# course using whatever tools you wish, so long as you figure out how to write the C# code and compile it for output. However, Visual Studio is the gold standard for working with C# codes, it's fair to say that it's the IDE of choice by nearly 100% of the professional C# programmers. I strongly recommend that you use Visual Studio to work through the courses at Treehouse, not just to learn the C# language, but learning how to use Visual Studio as a tool as well.

Shelley Hicklin
Shelley Hicklin
22,460 Points
Shelley Hicklin
Shelley Hicklin
22,460 Points

Can I get through the Visual Studio treehouse course using Visual Studio Code?

Shelley Hicklin
Shelley Hicklin
22,460 Points
Shelley Hicklin
Shelley Hicklin
22,460 Points

Thank You!

Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
10,323 Points
Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
10,323 Points

Do I need to uninstall the express version?