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I'm using my Mac most time at work. At home there's my Windows computer, where I program with Visual Studio my .NET/C# stuff.
Because I want to program outside, it would be great to have an equivalent IDE for my Mac.
Which software are the best solution in my case to have a similar workplace with the same functionality?
I prefer open source, but commercial software is okay too.
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Visual Studio 2022 for Mac brings a new, fully native macOS UI built on .NET 6, plus native support for the Apple M1 chip. It all adds up to faster, more fluid daily coding time for you.
Net Core 5.0 has been deployed on Window, MacOs and Linux.
Xcode is the built-in IDE for macOS. Though it's not installed by default, you can download it for free from Apple through the Terminal or from Apple's website. Xcode is a bit more limited than Visual Studio since it has a more singular purpose. It's for developing apps for Apple products, not apps at large.
No, you can't run a VB.Net program on mac with creating windows form.
MonoDevelop from: http://monodevelop.com/
There is no equivalent to Visual Studio. However, for writing C# on Mac or Linux, you can't get better than MonoDevelop.
The Mac build is pre beta. From the MonoDevelop site on Mac:
The Mac OS X port of MonoDevelop is under active development and has not seen a stable release yet. Recent work described by Michael Hutchinson has focussed on improving the usability and stability of Monodevelop on the Mac. This work will be released in MonoDevelop 2.2. Right now it's not finished, and is very much an alpha.
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The question is quite old so I feel like I need to give a more up to date response to this question.
Based on MonoDevelop, the best IDE for building C# applications on the Mac, for pretty much any platform is http://xamarin.com/
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