Visual Studio For Mac How To Open Two Solutions

What types of applications can I develop with Visual Studio for Mac? How do I open multiple solutions or instances of Visual Studio for Mac? Download and Installation (6). Opening two solutions from the same sandbox in different Visual Studio instances should work. This might not have be cause of the sandbox corruption, but even after repair, if you repeatedly see this problem while working with multiple solutions, looking at the trace might tell us what went wrong.

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The only two options I can see are git and subversion. I tried entering the url using the subversion option and it did ask me for credentials but the correct credentials never worked.

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TFS can use either TFVC (Team Foundation Version Control) or Git for the source control part. You don't have to use an external Git server, it has an internal one - with the data stored in the TFS SQL database. You create your first repo when you create the Team Project, but you can add repos later and you can mix TFVC and Git repos in the same Team Project - since 2015.2 I think.

Microsoft is still in the denial and marketing speak phase but TFVC is basically dead, even Microsoft is using Git for all their new repos. I'm ready to bet Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio for Mac will never connect to TFVC.

Edit: I lost my bet for Visual Studio Code, it can connect to TFVC using the Visual Studio Team Services extension since version 1.116.0 (2017/04/12).

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By default, all applications on a Mac, including Visual Studio for Mac, are single-instance apps. This means that if the application you want to use is already open (illustrated by a dot under the icon in the dock), selecting the icon again opens the running instance, rather than a new one. If you require additional instances of the application, you can prompt the system to open it for you, as described in the next section.

In addition, when you open a solution, the default behavior is to open the solution in a new workspace and close the current workspace (if necessary). You can override this default behavior by keeping the current workspace open, as described in the Open a second solution section.

Open a second instance of Visual Studio for Mac

Multiple Instances Of Visual Studio

To open a second instance of the integrated development environment (IDE), right-click on the Visual Studio icon in your dock or Applications folder, and select New Instance.

Open a second solution inside a single instance

To open a second solution alongside your first solution, use the following steps:

  1. With your first solution already open, select File > Open.

  2. Browse the file system to find the existing solution.

  3. Select the .sln file, and select Options:

  4. Clear the Close current workspace box:

  5. Select Open to open the second solution in the Solution Pad.

Alternatively, if you've recently opened the solution, you can use the following steps:

Visual Studio Open Two Solutions

  1. Go to File > Recent Solutions.

  2. Hold down the Ctrl key and select the solution. This combination opens the second solution in the Solution Pad.

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