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- How Can I Run Visual Studio 2017 On Mac
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Probably the most widely used developer tool is Visual Studio, and for that reason Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition includes some special integration with Visual Studio. In this blog post I will describe and demo this integration.
Use your current Mac computer to develop apps for Windows.
Run Windows on your Mac and use Visual Studio
Are you ready to start developing Universal Windows apps, but you don't have a PC handy? That's okay — you can use your Mac! With popular third-party solutions like Apple Boot Camp, Oracle VirtualBox, VMware Fusion, and Parallels Desktop, you can install Windows 10 and Microsoft Visual Studio on your Apple computer.
Note You will need a Windows 10 bootable image on disk or USB flash drive. If you are a MSDN Subscriber, you can download the install image from the MSDN Subscriber Downloads center. If you aren't a subscriber, the installer can be purchased from the Microsoft Store. You can also download it from this location, which is useful if you are already running Windows and wish to upgrade.
Once you have Windows running, you can then install the latest release of Visual Studio from Developer downloads for Windows 10 and start writing apps!
How Can I Run Visual Studio 2017 On Mac
Note If you plan to use the Visual Studio device emulators, you must install a 64-bit (x64) version of Windows 10 Pro or better. Unfortunately, some older Macs cannot run 64-bit Windows. Please check with Apple if your hardware is compatible on thisApple support page.
- Parallels 6 runs extremely fast for me, and my Mac Mini doesn't even get warm with VS 2010 and several other Mac apps open. I also heard about using DropBox and/or Windows Live Mesh.
- “Parallels allows me to run a full development environment on Windows, including SQL Server, Analysis Services Server, Visual Studio, and SQL Management console simultaneously with El Capitan. I am running this on an 11-inch MacBook Air with 8 GB of RAM and a two-core i7 processor.”.
- Also, you can even use the TouchBar with Visual Studio: just get that app 'BetterTouchTool', and you can create custom touch bars for Parallels with customized macros. It is really quite a nice feature to have custom 'keys' when programming.
Apple Boot Camp
The Boot Camp Assistant app is pre-installed on every recent Mac, and launching it will walk you through the process of installing Windows 10. All you need is a copy of Windows (from the sources listed above) and at least 30 Gb of free disk space. Once installed, you can choose to boot into Mac OSX or Windows 10. For more info, see Apple's Boot Camp instructions page.
Parallels Desktop
Using Parallels Desktop 11, you can run Windows apps side-by-side with existing Mac applications, including Visual Studio and Cortana. A pro version is available that includes extra features for developers, including improved debugging, and support for Docker and Jenkins. For more info, and a free trial version, see Parallels Desktop.
VMWare Fusion
Fusion 8 from VMWare will let you run Visual Studio right on your Mac desktop. A pro version is available to offer developers some more advanced features such as vSphere support. For more info, and a free trial version, see VMware Fusion.
Oracle VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a free application for running virtual machines on your computer, and it supports running Windows on Mac. It is a no-frills option, but the price is appealing. For more info, see VirtualBox.
I really need your help. I'm new to learn C#. I've followed each steps of Head First C#. In the book, the Visual Studio version is 2012, and the project type it tells me to create is Blank App (XAML) Visual C#, which I can't find in my Visual Studio 2017, so I choose the type described below.
About my computer/system:
Software: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017.
The project type is: Blank App (Universal Windows) Visual C#.
Computer: Using Parallels Desktop to run Windows10 on Mac OSX.
The Parallels Desktop, which is a virtual machine software used for running Windows 10 on my Mac. I create my project in this virtual machine, and after I finished the project follow the steps from book, there is no error in editor. But after I pressed the green-play-button, I got some error I posted below.
3 Answers
Check your project is stored in the C: drive of Windows10 running in the Parallels Desktop.
If you can't find where you store your project:
- Back to your Mac OSX > Finder > iCloud Drive > Documents > Visual Studio 2017 > Projects >Check that whether your project is stored in here, if it does, I will solve your problem.
- If your project is already stored in the C: of Windows10 in Parallels Desktop, go search other solution, I can't solve your problem, sorry.
You stored your project in the wrong place.
Don't copy and paste your project directly to Windows10 in the Parallels Desktop.
Create the project again. Yes, create it again... But this time, make sure your project is stored in the C: in the Parallels Desktop(I mean that the location of your project start with C: ).
Explain about the error message in the picture:
First I want to say, I'm new to Visual Studio 2017, and I don't know why the language displayed in the Output contains Chinese, I've already changed it to English in the environment settings. Sorry about that if you can't read Chinese.
But what it means in English is :
Windows can't deploy/debug your project because your project is stored in the file system of type PrlSF.
Since the default path of my project is:
In Windows on Parallels Desktop > iCloud on 'Mac'(X:) > Documents > Visual Studio 2017 > ...
If you right click the iCloud on 'Mac'(X:), you will find that it is of type PrlSF. Yes, as the error message shown, you've stored your project in the wrong place.
I had the same problem and found the following solution in the Parallels forum:https://forum.parallels.com/threads/prlsf-permissions-issue-when-developing-an-uwp-app-in-visual-studio.342549/
So the credit goes to the user JakubZ in the forum:
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For further reference, the steps to resolve this issue are as follows:
- Unload the UWP project (R-click on project and then select 'Unload Project'
- Edit the project file in VS (R-click on unloaded project and then select 'Edit ...')
- Find an XML entry for the OutputPath. For instance the entry for OutputPath when building for Debug|x86 should look like bin/x86/Debug. Notice that the entry contains relative path.
- Edit the path to an absolute path on one of VMs drives. For instance, to set the path to the %TEMP%UWPBuildsx86Debug directory for the user write $(TEMP)Debug
- Close the project file
- Reload the project (R-click on unloaded project and then select 'Reload Project').
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As an addition: As I had multiple run configurations, I also had multiple OutputPath entries. I had to change all of them accordingly.
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Are you sure next to green button 'Debug' mode is selected and NOT 'Release'?Probably you are trying to deploy application instead od running it in Visual studio - Debug mode..