![]() 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 application’s graphical interfaces.ĭesigning GUI is very similar as with Visual Studio Windows Forms or WPF designers – I simply drag and drop controls to the correct position, set up control properties and that’s it. To start designing GUI, I right click Main.storyboard and select Open With/Xcode Interface Builder, as shown below: Thanks to Visual Studio for Mac this is super simple and ultra productive! I am still amazed how quickly – with few clicks and entries – 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.Įverything 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 applicationįor 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. 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#.įor 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 Xamarin’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.īut with. NET developer so this post is (I guess) a bit out-of-my-course. Nonetheless, for certain tasks like editing the hosts file you’re still better off sticking to the command line and a text based editor, or using an app like BBEdit or TextWrangler.To be honest, I have never believed that I will write about developing Mac applications with C#. That issue can often be resolved by enabling the root user if you have’t done so yet, but not all apps will have that limitation. ![]() bash_profile to shorten the command string.ĭespite running as root, not all system files may be modifiable and some may be marked as “Locked” when opened in some apps like TextEdit. If you intend on running a particular app frequently as root, you might consider placing an alias in. You can confirm the the application is running as root by using the ps command with grep, again using TextEdit as an example:Īlternatively, you can look at the OS X process management app Activity Monitor and find the application running there as ‘root’ user, as demonstrated in the screenshot up top and the short video below: Sudo -b /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit To launch TextEdit as a background app, meaning it wont close if you close the terminal window, apply the -b flag to sudo: Sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit Sudo /Applications/ApplicationName.app/Contents/MacOS/ApplicationNameįor example, this command runs the familiar TextEdit app as root: In most cases, that will be applications stored in the /Applications/ directory, and the executable is almost always stored in Package/Contents/MacOS/ as whatever the applications name is: Sudo /Path/To/Application/ApplicationName.app/Path/To/Executable
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