C# on a Mac

[bob]

Is there a practical way for someone to learn and develop with C# on a Mac?

Or do you pretty much need Windows?

Thanks.

 

[Jeff Gaines]

On 23/08/2013 in message
<[email protected]>

Is there a practical way for someone to learn and develop with C# on a Mac?

Or do you pretty much need Windows?

Thanks.

You would need to use Mono:

http://www.mono-project.com/MonoMac

http://www.theevilboss.com/2009/06/using-mono-for-net-development-on-mac.html

Unfortunately you would also need to use the Mac development tool - XCode
- which is awful.

The man who developed the Borland development tools (at the time the best
in existence) moved to Microsoft to develop Visual Studio which has now
taken on the mantle of best in the world. The lack of Visual Studio is the
only thing that stops me using the beautiful dual processor Mac Pro I have
gathering dust here.

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Is there a practical way for someone to learn and develop with C# on a Mac?

Or do you pretty much need Windows?

You can install Mono on MacOS X and use MonoDevelop
as IDE.

http://www.mono-project.com/Start
http://monodevelop.com/

Note that MS .NET -> Mono can hit a few problems
as Mono does not implement everything

http://www.mono-project.com/Compatibility

Mono -> MS. NET should be much easier.

Arne