- Visual Studio for Mac builds on top of MonoDevelop, adding open sourced internals from Visual Studio and many new extensions to support new workloads. To get the latest available version, switch to the Stable updater channel after installing. Install Visual Studio for Mac.
- Visual Studio 2019 for Mac. Develop apps and games for iOS, Android and using.NET. Download Visual Studio for Mac. Create and deploy scalable, performant apps using.NET and C# on the Mac.
Visual Studio for Mac is available to install
Open-source and free. Xamarin is part of the open-source.NET platform that has a strong community of over 60,000 contributors from more than 3,700 companies.NET is free, and that includes Xamarin. There are no fees or licensing costs, including for commercial use. Visit Xamarin on GitHub.
Visual Studio for Mac builds on top of MonoDevelop, adding open sourced internals from Visual Studio and many new extensions to support new workloads. To get the latest available version, switch to the Stable updater channel after installing.
Supported on macOS 10.11 and later.
MonoDevelop for macOS is available from source
Please refer to the building guide for more information about how to install and configure your MonoDevelop.
- Ubuntu
- Debian
- Raspbian
- CentOS
1 Add the Mono repository to your system
The package repository hosts the packages you need, add it with the following commands.
Note: the packages should work on newer Ubuntu versions too but we only test the ones listed below.
Ubuntu 18.04 (i386, amd64, armhf)
Ubuntu 16.04 (i386, amd64, armhf)
Ubuntu 14.04 (i386, amd64, armhf)
2 Install MonoDevelop
The package monodevelop should be installed for the MonoDevelop IDE.
3 Verify Installation
After the installation completed successfully, it's a good idea to run through the basic hello world examples on this page to verify MonoDevelop is working correctly.
1 Add the Mono repository to your system
The package repository hosts the packages you need, add it with the following commands.
Note: the packages should work on newer Debian versions too but we only test the ones listed below.
Debian 10 (i386, amd64, armhf, armel)
Debian 9 (i386, amd64, armhf, armel)
Debian 8 (i386, amd64, armhf, armel)
2 Install MonoDevelop
The package monodevelop should be installed for the MonoDevelop IDE.
3 Verify Installation
After the installation completed successfully, it's a good idea to run through the basic hello world examples on this page to verify MonoDevelop is working correctly.
1 Add the Mono repository to your system
The package repository hosts the packages you need, add it with the following commands.
Note: the packages should work on newer Raspbian versions too but we only test the ones listed below.
Raspbian 9 (armhf)
Raspbian 8 (armhf)
2 Install MonoDevelop
The package monodevelop should be installed for the MonoDevelop IDE.
3 Verify Installation
After the installation completed successfully, it's a good idea to run through the basic hello world examples on this page to verify MonoDevelop is working correctly.
1 Add the Mono repository to your system
The package repository hosts the packages you need, add it with the following commands in a root shell.
Note: the packages should work on newer CentOS versions too but we only test the ones listed below.
CentOS 7 (x86_64)
CentOS 6 (x86_64, i686)
Xamarin Studio Mac
2 Install MonoDevelop
The package monodevelop should be installed for the MonoDevelop IDE.
Xamarin Mac Setup
3 Verify Installation
After the installation completed successfully, it's a good idea to run through the basic hello world examples on this page to verify MonoDevelop is working correctly.
MonoDevelop for Windows is available from source only
Please refer to the building guide for more information about how to install and configure your MonoDevelop.
GTK# for .NET
Visual Studio Xamarin Mac
Installer for running Gtk#-based applications on Microsoft .NET: