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Hello good day everyone,
I would just like to ask if it is possible to run C# windows form applications in mac, developed using microsoft visual studio in a microsoft operating system? :D what would be needed? https://waytree198.weebly.com/sony-studio-platinum-11-render-for-mac.html. is it free or do i have to purchase it?
thank you. :D
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closed as too broad by JK., MethodMan, Rob♦, Mi-Creativity, sujith karivelilFeb 23 '16 at 4:03
While Windows Forms applications will run on any supported platform, you'll still have to use Microsoft Visual Studio for the actual design and coding if you want to use a visual designer. We'll discuss the Mono Visual Studio add-in a little later. Well, a cool new feature for Visual Studio is the Visual Studio iOS Simulator. This add-in for Visual Studio allows us to debug our iOS version of the app right on our computer. So, you don’t need to be near your Mac to do the debugging.
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Visual studio community for mac offline installer. Yes, it is possible. For example, you can use Mono.
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The .Net Core is cross platform though it doesn't include winform (maybe it will in the future) or Wpf (definitely won't be cross platform in future).
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You can use Xamarin Studio and Mono to make a winform app for mac, though if you want to to use Visual Studio buy Xamarin business license for VS support or make a XNA or a web app. See my answer here .net core for linux and mac for more info.
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I've used Xamarin and GTK#, as well as Xamarin for code-behind and XCode for forms design. They both work pretty decently with C# for code-behind stuff.
Just keep in mind that GTK# looks quite clunky and dated when you put it next to a native Mac application. https://waytree198.weebly.com/uninstalling-visual-studio-for-mac.html.
On the other hand, the object framework for XCode forms (yeah, I know I'm not using the 'correct' terminology..) presents a bit of a learning curve, but isn't terribly hard, and Xamarin did a sweet job of integrating the object model into C#, so between the Apple documentation and what Xamarin provides, and er. from StackOverflow itself, you should be able to produce some neat-looking apps.
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Wine is capable of running some winforms-based Windows applications on Mac OSX. When it works as intended, all you have to do is install Wine on the Mac, and then it can run your exe. Of course this won't always work perfectly, and it won't have the polish of a native Mac app, but for simpler Winforms apps it should work.
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You might be able to cross-compile using Mono. http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/winforms/
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This is not possible. C# winform applications can only run on Windows.
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