1. Visual Studio In Mac
2. Xamarin Studio Download
3. Visual Studio For Mac Os
4. Visual Studio Xamarin Forms Tutorial
5. Xamarin Studio Vs Visual Studio For Mac
6. Microsoft Visual Studio For Mac
7. Visual Studio Xamarin Sample Applications

I've a Mac ( with Windows in BootCamp ).Now I am using Android Studio for Android dev. and XCode for iOS dev. both in OSX. I'd like to get started with Xamarin development.What are the most important differences between Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio?How should I decide which IDE to choose?

The Visual Studio’s Mac Remote Agent needs a running session on the Mac, and it can be quite erratic (this was especially true some months back on VS2015) Remote access with VNC is not optimal. There could be some delay for the screen to refresh.

LuZaLuZa

closed as primarily opinion-based by GSerg, Konrad Morawski, Jason, matthewrdev, Wai Ha LeeApr 18 '16 at 23:24

Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise. If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.

2 Answers

I'm not sure if your question isn't out of place on this site. At any rate, Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio can hardly be compared. The former one is a full-fledged, mature juggernaut of an IDE. Unsurprisingly, a bit of a resource hog along with it, still one of the best IDEs in the world.

I used Xamarin Studio on OSX for about a month (just last March). My experience was abysmal. I mean no disrespect for its creators, but I found it:

• extremely unstable (crashing a lot),

• with lots of irritating visual quirks (eg. the drop-down filenames list for file search popping up beyond the screen edge in full-screen mode, or the text cursor going missing),

• user-unfriendly (for instance the ridiculous exception details dialog, in which you need to click your way deep into the inheritance tree only to see the actual exception message)

• and far behind Visual Studio in terms of pretty much every functionality I could think of, starting with poor refactoring capabilities.

With latest acquisition, I'd expect things to turn around, but Xamarin Studio isn't there yet. I recommend Visual Studio.

Konrad MorawskiKonrad Morawski

Visual Studio is probably your best IDE for .Net development in general, plus you have the ability to install 3rd party extensions such as Resharper that can boost productivity and code quality in general.

Visual Studio In Mac

Choosing Xamarin Studio on Mac would allow you to open your storyboard in Xcode and edit it, run your app on iOS Simulators which you wouldn't be able to do on Windows. ( you could build your iOS app from Visual Studio using a remote mac: link)

Personally I prefer to develop on Mac with Xamarin Studio.

Xamarin Studio Download

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged c#visual-studioxamarinvisual-studio-2015xamarin-studio or ask your own question.

Introduction

Ever since I commercialised MFractor in June 2017, I've been pulled to the idea of using XAML and Xamarin.Forms to build user interfaces for Visual Studio Mac extensions.

For MFractor, developing tools like the Image Wizard or Localisation Wizard cost days to weeks of engineering effort. As a bootstrapped business, this time-cost makes it prohibitively expensive to develop tools that are UI-centric.

Visual Studio For Mac Os

Therefore, there are compelling reasons to use Xamarin.Forms to build Visual Studio Mac extensions:

Visual Studio Xamarin Forms Tutorial

• XAML is much, much easier to work with than XWT, Visual Studio Macs UI framework. This dramatically lowers the barrier to entry for developing Visual Studio Mac extensions.
• We can use code and can also make use of value converters, triggers and behaviours.
• With a Xamarin.Forms WPF backend available, user interfaces are reusable in both Visual Studio MacandVisual Studio Windows.
• By using XAML to build MFractors UIs, I can use MFractor to build itself; an awesome process of dogfooding to accelerate product development.

Xamarin Studio Vs Visual Studio For Mac

There are huge productivity gains here!

Microsoft Visual Studio For Mac

To prove that this technique is valid for production-ready tooling and is not just a toy, we'll be building an image asset browser you can use to visually explore images inside a solution:

Visual Studio Xamarin Sample Applications

So, read on to learn how to use Xamarin.Forms inside Visual Studio Mac to build rich user interfaces for your tooling.