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Install Xamarin for Visual Studio 2013 Express
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I'm running Windows 7 professional, installed Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013. Now, I got to work with development of android applications in c# and I want to do it in Visual studio Express edition. I found Xamarin would integrate android and iOS application development with c# and Visual Studio. I installed xamarin for visual studio here
I tried to integrate Xamarin in Visual Studio, but couldn't succeed with it.
I followed the developer.Xamarin instructions, couldn't find xamarin panel in tools -> options (in the BUILD host settings).
Instructions here, shows the integration of xamarin through migration from visual studio 12 to visual studio 13. I think it's out of my point from my concern.
I find some of the questions in stackoverflow are quite similar, though they were marked as answered but I'm sure there might be some other best solutions.
monotouch, visual studio - Xamarin IDE are some of the posts that I found uninformative. I couldn't get any conclusion from those posts. I'm truly disappointed with the posts(spent lot of time, but my issue was not solved). Any help is really appreciated.
Visual Studio Express does not support plug-ins and cannot be used with Xamarin.
What are the minimum system requirements?
Xamarin requires the platform SDKs from Apple and Google to target iOS
or Android, and our system requirements match theirs. To build for
iOS, you'll need the latest iOS SDK (currently iOS 7), which requires
an Intel-based Mac running OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). Our Visual
Studio Extensions for iOS and Android support any non-Express editions
of Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013.
Visual Studio Express --> Free but no plug-ins, so no Xamarin
Visual Studio --> expensive but plug-in support
these look the same but are very different products.
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I am new user of mac . I was learning asp.net and implementing on visual studio 2019 window version. Now I switched on mac . And here its asp.net core but i want windows version of asp.net . can get window like visual studio through docker on mac ?
Unfortunately Visual Studio is a Windows only product. You always have the option of running Visual Studio in something like Parallels you also have some native Mac options:
Visual Studio Code: This is a lightweight IDE that's really popular and used by a lot of people. It's cross platform and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. I would definitely recommend checking this out.
Visual Studio for Mac: This is a more fully featured IDE. As you can see in the comparison on the VS for Mac site, it allows you to develop for web, desktop, mobile and more.
JetBrains Rider: A very powerful IDE, not developed by Microsoft but by JetBrains focused on .NET development fully cross platform and loved by many.
I would encourage you to explore them all and see for yourself what you like. I see myself using a combination of tools (mostly Visual Studio, Code and Rider) and switch between them during my day.
I installed visual studio 2015 and Xamarin. But i didnt see Blank App (Xamarin form potable) under cross platform menu. How to make it work?
At this time, maybe it could be cool if you use the newest version of Visual Studio (VS 2017). Have more issue solving than VS 2015.
With 2015 I solved that issue by downloading and installing the Xamarin Tools from Xamarin.com/download website.
I am try use Xamarin Studio for Android. But, when i click File->New->Project... i don't see C#: Android application.
How to fix it? Thanks!!
As said here: The Cycle 7 version of Xamarin Studio on Windows requires both Microsoft Build Tools 2013 (or Visual Studio 2013) and Microsoft Build Tools 2015 (or Visual Studio 2015) to be installed.
You will need to update yours.
As a personal suggestion. Since you are using Windows I recommend to use Visual Studio Community. Its free and recommended by Xamarin.
To complement the answer I will quote what #MattWard said in the comments:
Xamarin.Android is included in Xamarin's universal installer but it is
also included in the Xamarin.VisualStudio.msi (note that even though
it says Visual Studio it does not require it to be installed). These
are available from your account page
Have you installed the Android SDK?
I have scoured the Internet for this but I cannot simply find the instructions.
I am trying to install DirectX and Direct3D in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate. How do I install it? What do I need to download?
According to this link, I think DirectX hasn't released for VS 2013. Am I wrong?
I am learning DirectX for the first time, so please forgive me if my questions seems very basic.
If you're using at least Windows 7, you'll want to download the Windows SDK for Windows 8.1. It includes DirectX, and supports Visual Studio 2013.
Visual Studio 2013 may (depending on your install) include parts of the Windows SDK already, so you may want to make sure you don't already have DirectX headers/libraries installed.
I got an issue with Visual Studio, Silverlight 5 Beta SDK and XNA.
I did a fresh install of all Visual Studio components I need to create the application I have in mind:
Visual C# 2010 Express
XNA Game Studio 4.0
Visual Web Developer 2010 Express
Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Silverlight 5 Beta Tools
However, when I start VS 2010 Express for Windows Phone and go to create a new project these are the templates I have:
Missing Templates
But there are a few templates missing.
How can I make appear the following templates:
Full list of templates
So what am I missing in this? I believe I installed everything and still nothing appears.
Is it because I'm using the express edition of visual studio? it doesn't make much sense though.
You installed that SDK correctly (uninstalled a previous installed SDK version correctly too)?
You could try and reset your vs2010 settings. This sometimes helps to restore missing project templates. You can do so like this:
Go to Tools / Import Export Settings
Choose to "Reset all Settings"
Restart Visual Studio
No guarantees but that helped me once before, so it is probably worth a try.
Just for others to know, you must have Visual Studio 2010 service pack 1(download link) before that.