#CREATING MAC OS FRAMEWORK HOW TO#
#CREATING MAC OS FRAMEWORK FOR MAC#
#CREATING MAC OS FRAMEWORK FULL#

#CREATING MAC OS FRAMEWORK HOW TO#

First, I open my Main.storyboard in Xcode (check previous section how to to this). Now, itвЂ™s time to wire-up controls with C# code. NET developers: EventHandlers and Properties Next thing IвЂ™ll do is to put some logic into my application. Here, I created simple and basic user interface, but you can imagine that very complex interfaces can be constructed with Apple AppKit controls. Long story short: I save storyboard, return to Visual Studio, compile and run. ДЇor the purpose of this experiment, I add one Button and one Label control. I can basically use all controls in the Apple AppKit framework. I do this by clicking Library button (menu: View->Show Library, shortcut: cmd+shift+L), selecting desired control and drag it to the View surface of selected ViewController. Xcode is opened with GUI designer where I can design my applicationвЂ™s graphical interfaces.Дesigning GUI is very similar as with Visual Studio Windows Forms or WPF designers вЂ“ I simply drag and drop controls to the correct position, set up control properties and thatвЂ™s it. To start designing GUI, I right click Main.storyboard and select Open With/Xcode Interface Builder, as shown below:

#CREATING MAC OS FRAMEWORK FOR MAC#

Thanks to Visual Studio for Mac this is super simple and ultra productive! I am still amazed how quickly вЂ“ with few clicks and entries вЂ“ application is up and running. My empty Mac app is started as shown below. Next step is entering application-related and basic data for newly created application.Д®verything is ready, I just build and run the project. Then, I configure Visual Studio project and solution names, location and if I will use git on my project. I open my Visual Studio for Mac 2019 and start new Mac/Cocoa App/C#, e.g.: I would like to show how easy this is with Visual Studio for Mac 2019 (version 8.4). Empty Mac applicationДЇor start, I will create empty Cocoa app with C#. At the end, I will show how to extend this basic approach to a more complex scenario. Then I will put some GUI elements and wire-up control properties and events with a C# logic. I will start with empty macOS Cocoa/C# application. Under the hood, accessing native macOS APIs is the same as with Objective-C or Swift development.

#CREATING MAC OS FRAMEWORK FULL#

NET developers to develop full native Mac applications with C#. I will show what is possible and how to start with macOS desktop development with C#.ДЇor me, writing C# application targeting macOS sounds like science fiction. In this blog, I will focus on macOS desktop development with C#.

NET desktop development stacks are available only for Windows. NET Core 3.0 was extended with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Widows Forms. NET Core and XamarinвЂ™s mobile-based applications enable cross platform development. We all know that console-based, web-based.

NET Core, Xamarin and related technologies, this changed. NET developers were limited to develop applications strictly for Windows environment.Д«ut with.

NET developer so this post is (I guess) a bit out-of-my-course. To be honest, I have never believed that I will write about developing Mac applications with C#.

Creating mac os framework