The latest version of Visual Studio 2022 for Mac is now supported on MacinCloud Managed Servers with macOS Ventura or later. This version of Visual Studio currently supports the latest version of Xamarin.iOS. Try a Mac Server with Visual Studio for Mac pre-installed by obtaining a Managed Server Plan to quickly get started! 


If you do not see the latest version of Visual Studio 2022 for Mac installed on your server, please contact our Support Help Desk to request a software update.



What's New?

  • Updated .NET SDKs to 7.0.307 and 6.0.413
  • Fixed a problem where, after installing the.NET 7.0.400 SDK,.NET workload project templates were missing.
  • Fixed a problem where installing the.NET 8 Preview 7 SDK prevented the restoration or building of.NET 8 projects.
  • The "Report a Problem" dialog's ability to cause the application to hang has been fixed.
  • When aiming for Android 14 / API Level 34, a problem was fixed where the user would see erroneous times regardless of their time zone (UTC for everyone).



Xamarin.iOS Remote Build with Microsoft Visual Studio for Mac:

If you wish to utilize Xamarin's Build Host feature with MacinCloud Managed Server Plans, please select the "enable remote build port" add-on at checkout. This enables the SSH port on the Mac server account and allows Visual Studio for Windows work with the Mac account to provide remote build features. 



System Requirements:

Visual Studio 2022 is supported on macOS Ventura or later.



External Resources:

Official Visual Studio for Mac 2022 Release Notes

Visual Studio for Mac Support



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