There are some plans to align Visual Studio for Mac more closely with Visual Studio for availability of older downloads in the future. For the moment, the easiest option in general might be to create a support incident to request the version you'd like. But for this exact case, I've just messaged you some links for the previous versions. To install the preview of Visual Studio for Mac, use the following steps: Go to Visual Studio Check for Updates. In the Update channel combo box, select Preview. Select the Switch channel button to switch to the selected channel and start downloading any new updates. Select the Restart and Install Updates button to start installing the updates.
We'll be using Visual Studio Code, or VS Code for short, as our IDE for this course. VS Code is a great cross-platform editor, as it's fast, easy to customize, and has a friendly user interface. How to Run Visual Studio on a Mac. Visual Studio doesn't run natively on OS X, so my first step was to get Windows running on my MacBook Pro. (If you want an editor that does run natively, Xamarin Studio or Visual Studio Code might fit the bill). There are multiple options for running Windows on a Mac. Every Mac comes with Apple's Boot Camp software, which helps you install Windows into a separate partition. To switch between OSes, you need to restart.
Microsoft .NET Framework programmers can install Visual Studio on Mac and build applications using Visual Studio 2017 for Mac.Microsoft provides free Visual Studio IDE for programmers which is the Visual Studio Community 2017.We will see installation steps including Xcode setup as a prerequisite for the free Visual Studio edition in this guide.
Install Xcode as prerequisite for Visual Studio for Mac
Before programmers start downloading and installing Visual Studio 2017 for Mac on their computers, I would suggest to install Xcode at firt.Since some features of Visual Studio for Mac require Xcode, installing Xcode before will not interrupt Visual Studio setup process.
If you plan to develop applications for macOS, iOS, tvOS or watchOS platforms you will need Xcode installed before on your Mac.
To get more information on Xcode, please visit Apple Developer portal.
On main page, you will see the Download button. Click to continue for available versions of Xcode download for Mac.
Click download to get the target Xcode version for your Mac.You see the Xcode Developer Tool on Mac App Store as follows.
After you complete Xcode setup you can continue with Visual Studio 2017 for Mac installation.
Download and Install Visual Studio for Max
Developers can start to download Visual Studio for Mac by downloading the Visual Studio for Mac Installer first.Visit following URL as the first step for VS for Mac
Click Download Visual Studio for Mac
Visual Studio for Mac installer will be automatically downloaded to your Mac.
Launch the installer.
Give the required permission to run the application that you have downloaded from internet address www.visualstudio.com
Before starting setup process, developers can check the Microsoft Privacy Statement and License Terms.
If you have not yet installed Xcode, you will see followning warning informing you to get Xcode and install on your Mac for some of the Visual Studio features.
Visual Studio provides following tools and platforms for your Mac:
Platforms
Android + Xamarin.Forms
iOS + Xamarin.Forms
macOS
.NET Core + ASP.NET Core
Tools
Xamarin Workbooks & Inspector
Android + Xamarin.Forms includes two SDKs as seen below.
One of them is Java SDK (227 MB) and the other is the Android SDK (1.86 GB)
Using Android components, programmers can create applications for Android, Android Wear and Android TV.
iOS + Xamarin.Forms component has a total size of 495 MB and requires Xcode.
Developers can build applications for iOS, tvOS and watchOS by installing this component.
Visual Studio Express For Mac
Similarly, macOS component of Visual Studio requires Xcode as well.
The total setup size of this feature is 122 MB.
By installing this feature, Visual Studio provides required development environment to buld macOS applications for programmers.
Visual Studio C++ For Mac
.NET Core + ASP.NET Core component size is 175 MB.
Xamarin Workbooks & Inspector tool size is 199 MB.
Xamarin Workbooks is for training and trial. Inspector is for debugging your applications.
After you choose the required features and tools to install on your Mac, you are ready to start installing Visual Studio for Mac on your computer.
When the setup process for Visual Studio is completed you can start using the Visual Studio for Mac IDE
Here is the initial screen when you launch free Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition on your Mac
