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Visual Studio for Mac is available to install
Visual Studio for Mac builds on top of MonoDevelop, adding open sourced internals from Visual Studio and many new extensions to support new workloads. To get the latest available version, switch to the Stable updater channel after installing.
Supported on macOS 10.11 and later.
In our previous release, we had Xamarin project templates available for Visual Studio for Windows machines. Now, we have extended this support to Visual Studio for Mac, too. Download and install the Essential Studio for Xamarin Mac build by following the steps in this guideline. Then: Open Visual Studio 2019 for Mac.
Download Xamarin Android Player (64-bit) for Windows to simulate, debug, demo or run Android apps in a fast and hassle-free environment.
MonoDevelop for macOS is available from source
Please refer to the building guide for more information about how to install and configure your MonoDevelop.
Ubuntu
Debian
Raspbian
CentOS
1 Add the Mono repository to your system
Vs For Mac Xamarin
The package repository hosts the packages you need, add it with the following commands.
Note: the packages should work on newer Ubuntu versions too but we only test the ones listed below.
Ubuntu 18.04 (i386, amd64, armhf)
Ubuntu 16.04 (i386, amd64, armhf)
Ubuntu 14.04 (i386, amd64, armhf)
2 Install MonoDevelop
The package monodevelop should be installed for the MonoDevelop IDE.
3 Verify Installation
After the installation completed successfully, it's a good idea to run through the basic hello world examples on this page to verify MonoDevelop is working correctly.
1 Add the Mono repository to your system
The package repository hosts the packages you need, add it with the following commands.
Note: the packages should work on newer Debian versions too but we only test the ones listed below.
Debian 10 (i386, amd64, armhf, armel)
Debian 9 (i386, amd64, armhf, armel)
Debian 8 (i386, amd64, armhf, armel)
2 Install MonoDevelop
The package monodevelop should be installed for the MonoDevelop IDE.
3 Verify Installation
After the installation completed successfully, it's a good idea to run through the basic hello world examples on this page to verify MonoDevelop is working correctly.
1 Add the Mono repository to your system
The package repository hosts the packages you need, add it with the following commands.
Note: the packages should work on newer Raspbian versions too but we only test the ones listed below.
Raspbian 9 (armhf)
Raspbian 8 (armhf)
2 Install MonoDevelop
The package monodevelop should be installed for the MonoDevelop IDE.
3 Verify Installation
After the installation completed successfully, it's a good idea to run through the basic hello world examples on this page to verify MonoDevelop is working correctly.
1 Add the Mono repository to your system
The package repository hosts the packages you need, add it with the following commands in a root shell.
Note: the packages should work on newer CentOS versions too but we only test the ones listed below.
CentOS 7 (x86_64)
CentOS 6 (x86_64, i686)
2 Install MonoDevelop
The package monodevelop should be installed for the MonoDevelop IDE.
3 Verify Installation
After the installation completed successfully, it's a good idea to run through the basic hello world examples on this page to verify MonoDevelop is working correctly.
MonoDevelop for Windows is available from source only
Visual Studio Xamarin Mac
Please refer to the building guide for more information about how to install and configure your MonoDevelop.
GTK# for .NET
Xamarin Mac Setup
Installer for running Gtk#-based applications on Microsoft .NET: