Visual Studio for Mac support has reached end-of-life

Visual Studio for Mac has been retired as of August 31, 2024. As a result, Wilderness Labs is no longer supporting the Visual Studio for Mac Meadow extension.

However, this repo will remain open and pull requests from the community will be reviewed and merged.

For Meadow development on Mac OS, Wilderness Labs recommends JetBrains Rider or Visual Studio Code.

Build Status

Installation

To install the add-in:

Install the latest version of Visual Studio for Mac.

Install the add-in from the extensions/add-ins manager:

1. open VS Mac, open the Visual Studio > Extensions menu and select the Gallery tab.
2. Select All repositories and Search for Meadow (you may have to click the Refresh button).
3. Select the Meadow extension and then click install on the right.
4. Follow any additional installation instructions.

Deploying the Add-in from Source

1. Install the latest version of Visual Studio for Mac.
2. Install the AddinMaker maker from the extensions/add-ins manager (follow installation instructions above and search for AddinMaker instead).
3. Clone the Meadow.CLI project from GitHub.
4. Clone the VS_Mac_Meadow_Extension project from GitHub
5. Open VS4Mac_Meadow_Extension.sln solution with VS Mac.
6. Make sure all the nuget packages are restored and then start debugging, which will open a new instance of VS Mac that has the Add-in that just built enabled.

Creating an Add-in Package

To create an addin package (.mpack), first, build the add-in in release mode, and then run the CreateAddinPackage.sh script from terminal.

To change or update the version number, edit the Verion in /Properties/AddinInfo.cs.

Publishing

(for Wilderness Labs publishing team)

To publish:

1. Go to https://addins.monodevelop.com
2. Sign in
3. Select WildernessLabs.Meadow project under My Projects (upper right)
4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Upload Package button
5. Click the Choose File button and select the new .mpack file on your local machine
6. Set the Target version to the current stable release of Visual Studio for Mac (e.g. 8.8.4)
7. Click the Upload button
8. Find the package you just uploaded by searching for the VS4Mac version number you chose
9. Cick the Publish button

Nugets (For creating Meadow Applications)

License

Released under the Apache 2 license.

Authors

Bryan Costanich, Adrian Stevens, Brian Kim, Dominique Louis