Visual Studio Mac - Console Application - Hello world How to develop c# application on Mac. Visual Studio for Mac is super important for increased Xamarin and.NET adoption on Mac. Most cross platform developers are either on Mac or Linux. As mentioned by someone else in the comments here, if Visual Studio could extend to Linux that would be fantastic for increased adoption of Xamarin.
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Visual studio for mac Knarik Gasparyan reported yesterday I am trying to write a C# program as part of the Software Development Fundamentals exam preparation, and it asks me to start the Visual Studio, and then elect File>New Project>Visual C# Console Application.
Thank you for downloading Visual Studio and starting your first C++ journey!
- First, understand the layout and views once you launch Visual Studio 2017:
- Next, review the standard build process for a Visual Studio project:
- If C++ is not an already installed language in Visual Studio, you need to install Desktop development with C++ through the Visual Studio Installer:
- After installing the Desktop development with C++ workload, you can choose the Win32 Console Application template and create your HelloWorld project:
- Click Finish to exit the Win32 Application Wizard
- You can see your first C++ project:
- Replace the code with the following:
- Next, add a breakpoint by clicking the grey area in front of line 12:
- Compile and run your project by clicking the green triangle in the tool bar (Local Windows Debugger) or press F5. Visual Studio allows single-click for build and debugging.
Click Yes to build the project:
- You can see “Hello World!” in the console window.

Troubleshooting:
If the console window closes immediately, you need to set the breakpoint in step 8.
If you are on Windows 8.1, you need to re-run the installer for Visual Studio, click modify, select languages, and choose C++.
Congratulations on your first C++ project!
Last updated on April 5, 2019
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