There has no option to create C++ project in this version and some other community members reported this suggestion to the Visual Studio Product Team, please check this: Support C++ in Visual Studio for Mac and you can vote it, then waiting for the feedback from the Visual Studio Product Team. VS for Mac Product Manager Rajen Kishna replied: 'Our goal with Visual Studio for Mac is to create a native IDE for Mac users with workloads that make sense on macOS. That means 'desktop app' development will target macOS and Visual Studio (on Windows) can be used to target Windows.
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- 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.
Today we are announcing the release of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6.Our focus with this release has been to improve product reliability in various areas, with a special focus on the code editing experience. Mac OS users can build apps for mobile, web, and cloud with Xamarin and.NET Core, and games with Unity using Visual Studio. In this article, I will share how to create new Xamarin.Forms application using Visual Studio for Mac.
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It seems like I'm not able to create a C++ console application using Visual Studio on macOS.
I did a little bit of research and seems that this isn't possible on macOS yet.
Is there some package I can install to make it possible?
1 Answer
Visual Studio for Mac is basically a re-branded Xamarin Studio. it currently only supports C# and F# from the looks of it. (Silly, I know)