Visual Studio 2019 for Mac. Develop apps and games for iOS, Android and using.NET. Download Visual Studio for Mac. Create and deploy scalable, performant apps using.NET and C# on the Mac. Then you can develop the applications on either Windows, or MAC. On Windows, you can use.NET or Mono, Visual Studio, or SharpDevelop, or MonoDevelop IDE. On Mac, you can use MonoDevelop. In all cases you can use the same assemblies for.NET, Mono for Windows, or Mono for Mac, without recompilation. However, you will face some incompatibilities. Since it only runs on Widows machines a workaround would be to create a partition on your Mac using Boot Camp so you can install Windows to run Visual Basic. That's a lot of work to go through just to use one app.
Visual Studio Code is not Visual Basic Express, nor does it recreate the underlying Microsoft Windows system features and libraries that Visual Basic Express expects. If the school requires Visual Basic Express, then you need to provide your son with a Windows solution on his Mac. Depending on the school's business relationship with Microsoft, they may offer a less expensive, and even potentially, a free version of Windows 10. Inquire.
Your options for running Windows 10 on the 2015 MacBook Pro with El Capitan, are:
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- Apple's Boot Camp Assistant (included) with El Capitan in /Applications/Utilities.
- Creates a separate, bootable (not virtualized) partition on the Mac and installs Windows 10 into it
- One can choose to boot into OS X, or Windows 10.
- Apple provides specific drivers for Windows 10 for MacBook Pro hardware compatibility.
- Thoroughly read the above link before plunging into a Boot Camp installation.
- One of three virtual machines to run Windows 10 concurrently as a guest OS with OS X
- Free
- Expects a Windows 10 ISO (.iso) installer
- Parallel's Desktop
- Currently $79/year home/student
- Purchased from Parallels Site
- Parallel's Lite (free) in Mac App Store requires $60/yr in-App purchase to install Windows
- VMware Fusion
- Currently $79
- Purchased from VMware Fusion site
Your son can run any of these solutions on the 2015 MacBook Pro with El Capitan. If it is an 8GB RAM machine, you may want to caution about running any other applications while using the Virtual Machines, or your son may run out of memory. I currently run Windows 10 w/Fall Creator's update in VirtualBox 5.2.6 on a 2011 Mac mini with 16GB RAM.
If you go the VirtualMachine route, I would assign 50 GB - 75 GB of storage to the guest container because of the continuous inundation of bloated Microsoft updates, and additional software (development) installations. The Creators updates are close to 7 GB each. You might let Time Machine back this up the VM guest once, and then in Time Machine Preferences, add the VM directory to the exclusions. Each time you change something in the guest container, Time Machine will back it up, and it is a quick way to exhaust a Time Machine drive.
Microsoft Visual Basic For Mac
Feb 17, 2018 4:26 AM