I'm studying Informatics Engineering, and my teacher uses a Windows PC to teach us Windows Forms. My question is: Can I do my Windows Forms homework on my mac? I'll install Visual Studio of course.
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Can you do the Windows Forms homework on your Mac? Maybe.
- As mentioned, Mono has an implementation of Windows Forms. There has been recent activity in this area (early 2018).
- Visual Studio for Mac is not actually regular Visual Studio. It's a re-branding of MonoDevelop.
Should you try to do the Windows Forms homework on your Mac? Probably not.
- The Mono version is a different implementation of Forms and you're going to run into bugs, missing features, etc.
- You're going to end up debugging environment differences. Mono/OSX vs Windows, VS for Mac vs VS proper, etc.
- You'll end up in more trouble if they provide bat/powershell scripts, require another Windows-only library, etc.
The end result being either you'll spend a lot of time trying to use things you receive from someone else, or (even worse) they won't be able to run what you turn in.
Alternatives:
- As has also been mentioned, you can run Windows in a VM like virtualbox, Parallels, or VMWare Fusion. Visual Studio Community is free.
- Use a computer lab at your school with Windows machines
- Work remotely via: Microsoft Remote Desktop, Apple Remote Desktop, VNC, etc.
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