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Posted by Scott Laughead
Scott Laughead
12,750 Points

System requirements for future courses

I noticed that the MVC course that is due to be released this month uses Visual Studio Community. Looking at their website (https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/visual-studio-2015-system-requirements-vs#1), it doesn't appear to be supported on the OSX platform. Is there an alternative IDE for us Mac users? Would Visual Studio Code be an acceptable substitute?

3 Answers

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

MonoDevelop is the usual alternative to Visual Studio if you want a general non-Windows C# IDE. It can do .NET and ASP, so if should be good for the upcoming MVC course. (It's from the same people that do Xamarin, btw.)

Paul Willis
Paul Willis
4,082 Points

MonoDevelop is the same thing as Xamarin Studio, right?

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

From what I understand Xamarin Studio is built on top of MonoDevelop with extra features specific to Xamarin (like a UI builder, etc.)

Paul Willis
Paul Willis
4,082 Points

Interesting, when I went to the MonoDevelop site and clicked download it only showed an option for Xamarin Studio.

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

Huh, interesting indeed. Looks like there's a merge/renaming happening recently.

jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points
jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points

Or you can install VM windows on your mac.

Paul Willis
Paul Willis
4,082 Points
Paul Willis
Paul Willis
4,082 Points

Hi Scott! I haven't used visual studio code, so I don't know if it's what you're looking for. You can't make asp.net websites with it, but I would HIGHLY recommend using the Xamarin IDE (now a Microsoft product!). https://www.xamarin.com/platform It is an awesome way to make apps for windows, android, and iOS, all with the same piece of C# code!