Visual Studio for Mac mini

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Visual Studio for Mac mini

I am wondering if others in this community have been able to download and install Microsoft Visual Studio Community version that includes C++ in the IDE?

Posted on Jun 22, 2023 2:36 PM

Answer 1

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woodmeister50

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Jun 24, 2023 5:24 AM in response to lazaro181

Visual Studio for Mac only supports .NET development and therefore only supports C#.

See at the bottom of this page:

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/

You will find only support for C# console apps and Mac Apps with C# and Xamarin.

While I have never done it, you should be able to configure Visual Studio Code to work with third party C++ compilers as it is highly configurable. I know there are ways to configure it for embedded C and C++ development so I would think that console or GUI apps (with appropriate frameworks) should be possible (note: I have only used it for HTML and Javascript web page development).

Answer 2

Jun 22, 2023 8:07 PM in response to lazaro181

I don't know, but here's the Microsoft site:

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/

It says that Visual Studio 2022 for Mac has native support for the Apple M1 chip.

Answer 3

lazaro181 Author

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Jun 23, 2023 10:33 AM in response to lazaro181

Were you able to code C++ with either versions of Visual Studio for Mac Mini? When I reviewed them, I could not see any documentation that one code code C++ programs with this version. I could on my old PC using Visual Studio Community version.