Hello, Mac – Walkthrough • • 24 minutes to read • Contributors • • • • In this article Xamarin.Mac allows for the development of fully native Mac apps in C# and.NET using the same macOS APIs that are used when developing in Objective-C or Swift. Because Xamarin.Mac integrates directly with Xcode, the developer can use Xcode's Interface Builder to create an app's user interfaces (or optionally create them directly in C# code). Additionally, since Xamarin.Mac applications are written in C# and.NET, code can be shared with Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android mobile apps; all while delivering a native experience on each platform. This article will introduce the key concepts needed to create a Mac app using Xamarin.Mac, Visual Studio for Mac and Xcode's Interface Builder by walking through the process of building a simple Hello, Mac app that counts the number of times a button has been clicked: The following concepts will be covered: • Visual Studio for Mac – Introduction to the Visual Studio for Mac and how to create Xamarin.Mac applications with it. • Anatomy of a Xamarin.Mac Application – What a Xamarin.Mac application consists of.

And in the course Visual Studio Development on a Mac, you'll witness the impact a virtual machine running Windows and Visual Studio has on its host, the Mac OS X. This smooth performance is in the details of Apple's hardware and the cleverness of the virtual machine software.

• Xcode’s Interface Builder – How to use Xcode’s Interface Builder to define an app’s user interface. • Outlets and Actions – How to use Outlets and Actions to wire up controls in the user interface. • Deployment/Testing – How to run and test a Xamarin.Mac app. Requirements Xamarin.Mac application development requires: • A Mac computer running macOS High Sierra (10.13) or higher. • The latest version of. To run an application built with Xamarin.Mac, you will need: • A Mac computer running macOS 10.7 or greater.

In a word, yes. I use a Mac Mini 1.67 GHz machine with 2GB of RAM.

That's not an impressive box, but performance under WinXP is excellent. I have used VS2005, VS2008, MySQL Server, Sql Server Express, and dozens of little utilities. The only issues I've ever had were when I used a hotkey (ex: F10) that was assigned to something like Expose in the mac.

So I would hit F10 and instead of stepping over, it would bring up the weather widget. Workaround was to reassign those keys on the Mac (i.e., reassign to Shift+F10).

Edit: I see others report having sluggish performance. You may want to get an extra drive and keep your Virtual Drive there. I've been doing that for a long time, and that may be the reason for good performance under XP. Lots of people are talking about Parallels and VMWare Fusion, but I didn't see any mention of the other methods I've used to good effect. • Visual Studio via Remote Desktop - I have a laptop running Windows/Visual Studio with a static IP and use the Microsoft Remote Desktop client to connect from my Mac.

This has the advantage of minimal overhead on the Mac, so is more responsive than a VM. However, it has the obvious disadvantage of requiring a second machine running Windows and Visual Studio.

If you're running Windows Server 2008, as a bonus you can run to share just Visual Studio to your mac - very convenient. • Virtual machine using - All the major features of a VM, except VirtualBox is free. I've used VMs with VMWare Fusion, Parallels and VirtualBox and I have to say I find performance to be pretty much even across all three. Parallels tended to drive my CPU harder than the other two but the actual VM responsiveness was fine.

Word for Mac 2011 changes all that. The Intel-only Word 2011 is a significant and substantive update to Microsoft’s flagship Mac word processing and page-layout application. Question: Q: My Microsoft Word 2011 looks weird. How do I restore back to normal? Basically my Microsoft Word Document looks like this: I don't really understand why it looks like this. If you don't have customizations stored in Normal (like macros or autotext), the simplest way to correct this is to delete Normal.dotm and allow Word to re-create it. This way, you get the default Word formatting back: Close Word. Hold down the Alt key while clicking on the Go menu and choosing Library. Word 2011 for mac formatting is all weirdest. Formatting problems for emails in Outlook 2011. Discussion in 'Mac Apps and Mac App Store' started by ianwasafiri, Oct 25, 2011.

VirtualBox also has Seamless mode, essentially similar to Parallel's Coherence mode, but less integrated into the Desktop. I use this every day to run a Windows-only application on my Mac and it works great, sharing only the window for that application instead of running a full Windows desktop. • Boot Camp - depending on your needs, running Boot Camp with Windows installed as a dual-boot OS will of course offer the best performance but with the downside of running Windows;).