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Getting ready

After downloading Visual Studio for Mac, start the installation process. This is very similar to the process outlined in the first recipe. It can take a while to complete, so once again, go get yourself a cup of coffee. Creating applications with Visual Studio for Mac is a familiar experience for .NET developers coming from Visual Studio for Windows.

At the heart of Visual Studio for Mac is the Roslyn compiler that is used for refactoring and IntelliSense. The build engine is MSBuild and the debugger engine is the same for Xamarin and .NET Core applications. The software requirements for Xamarin development and Visual Studio for Mac are as follows:

You will need a Mac running OS X El Capitan (10.11) or macOS Sierra.
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