Hi Nicholas12, Thanks for posting here. As we known,.NET is pretty much Windows based. If you want to develop VB.net in Visual Studio for Mac Preview, you could potentially purchase say virtual PC for Mac, install Windows on it and develop on the virtual machine computer on your Mac.
Getting Started. Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. However, some of my students have a Mac and they report me that they are unable to find 'Empty Project' or Visual C++ in the Visual Studio Community version The VS for Mac not support the C++ development, it defaults support development in C# and F#. Please check this doc: Introducing Visual.
MSDN Community Support Please remember to click 'Mark as Answer' the responses that resolved your issue, and to click 'Unmark as Answer' if not. This can be beneficial to other community members reading this thread. If you have any compliments or complaints to MSDN Support, feel free to contact [email protected]. @Nicholas12, Thanks for Albert reply. Since c# and visual studio is NOW supported on the Mac, but VB.NET is not the first batch of languages to be supported on VS Code. You should use C# or F# instead. These are supported programming languages for Visual Studio Code at the moment: JavaScript, JSON, HTML, CSS, Sass, Less, TypeScript, Markdown, PHP, Python, Go, Dockerfile, T-SQL, C#, C Perhaps MonoDevelop is right up your alley.
It claims to have support for Visual Basic.Net and is available for OS X. You can get those info from: MSDN Community Support Please remember to click 'Mark as Answer' the responses that resolved your issue, and to click 'Unmark as Answer' if not. This can be beneficial to other community members reading this thread. If you have any compliments or complaints to MSDN Support, feel free to contact [email protected]. Alas sometimes we don't get to choose what language you can use. My kids are doing GCSE computer science in the UK, and their school in its wisdom has decided that rather than use a modern relevant language, they have to use VB.net on windows forms.
My current choices are to go through the hoops and complexity of setting up a local VM and windows etc but macbook air doesn't exactly have the luxury of large storage for 2 OSes etc, or go through all the massive hoops and cost of setting up an Azure account with a VS VM (there doesn't seem to be student pricing for that that I can tell - but with the masses of web pages I need to read to set everything up it's hard to tell, and not exactly parent friendly in setting it up either) or buying an extra windows computer. VS as a native mac app is great, but we really need VB.net to either be killed or fully supported. (I'd prefer killed but I know others have a vested interest in keeping it).