So far when you run the project it will show a main window.
But this is because we created the kind of project we did with a main storyboard and an entry in the Info.plist that told macOS what should be the main window.
It isn’t one we created in our new framework.
Lets rectify that.… Read the rest
Of course to follow along you’ll need to download and install VS for macOS
Once you have it you can easily start a new “solution”
This is MS’ term for what might roughly be the equivalent of a Xojo project (although its a bit more than that) But for now “Xojo project” is close enough.
Select “New”
Select Mac app in the left hand pane send select “Cocoa app” and make sure the language elector is set to C# (you can use others supported by C# but I’m going to focus on C#)
Press Continue
Give your project a name – I used getting_started
Note that in this pane you can select which version of macOS you want to deploy backwards to.… Read the rest
Yeah after all these years I’ve started writing some code in C#
Mostly as a way to work in something else
But also as a way to learn another language that I _might_ end up needing to use for client work. Thats a whole different story.
So I started just using a framework put together by Björn Eiríksson
Any first it was just learning how to write code, add event handlers, and generally just getting used to how this all worked, C# syntax (some very handy things there) and poking about.… Read the rest