Debugging and Building for MacOS

I looked into it some more- turns out that Visual Studio on a Mac isn’t that great for creating Wisej applications. The Wisej.NET designer uses the Winforms designer as a base, so the designer only works on Windows. (Side note: This is part of why Winforms projects can be migrated into Wisej so easily). So, you can use alternatives to Visual Studio on Mac such as IntelliJ Rider or VS Code- in all of these cases, you’ll be able to edit the code but not open the designer. So if you are developing on a Mac, the best solution is to use a Virtual Machine (VM) with Windows, and run Visual Studio for Windows on the VM.

The workflow for building and testing a Wisej Hybrid project for MacOS would be: 1.Use a VM to edit the project in Visual Studio 2.build the Wisej Hybrid project (publish it) 3.move the published files (.app or .pkg) to a mac and test it We don’t have a video that shows specifically building and debugging hybrid apps for MacOS. I can work on making one! In the meantime, here are some resources you may find to be helpful: -WIsej Hybrid is based on .NET MAUI, so the .NET MAUI documentation for MacOS apps may be helpful: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/mac-catalyst/deployment/?view=net-maui-8.0 -Here’s a video showing how to build an Online Wisej Hybrid application for Windows. This will help you with step 1, Use a VM to edit the project in Visual Studio https://docs.wisej.com/hybrid/development/remote-application