Finally decided to get one of these now with parallels support for times I need C#. Going to be offloading a PowerBook/early Intel collection locally to free up some space/pay for it so it’s a win-win! Will be a big upgrade from my 5,1 Mac Pro I use! Anyone here using parallels for C# related dev? I posted a similar question on this sub forum I think back in November but at the time understandably so there weren’t really any options out there for this yet. About to graduate from college again so want to get the base model one with the student discount while I can to use swift and such for newer OSes since I’m limited to iOS 13 dev on the Mac Pro with Mojave.
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How has parallels been for C#/Windows Dev?
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Support isn’t quite there yet and is quite buggy/un-functional. But “Before the end of the year” We’ve been promised better support for ARM with Visual Studio on Windows which is currently the issue.
You can develop dot net and C# in macOS itself though, of course it’s not the .NET Framework, but .NET Core and Mono are there and should work well
You can develop dot net and C# in macOS itself though, of course it’s not the .NET Framework, but .NET Core and Mono are there and should work well
.NET Core and .NET have been merged into .NET 5. The next major .NET release, .NET 6, will have native support for Apple Silicon.
My preferred development environment for .NET is JetBrains Rider on MacOS. This obviously won't work for WinForms or WPF projects but is great for server side web development.
My preferred development environment for .NET is JetBrains Rider on MacOS. This obviously won't work for WinForms or WPF projects but is great for server side web development.