how to create ios application in vs?

Question

there is Android Application in VS. but no ios Application right?

how to create ios? not MAUI just .net ios.

Answer 1

Hello,

There are .NET iOS project templates in VS.

Since you can find Android project template, it means that the .NET MAUI workload has been installed.

If not, you can open Visual Studio Installer, click "Modify" button, and then check .NET Multi-platform App UI development under Workloads tab.

how to create ios? not MAUI just .net ios.

Open Visual Studio 2022 (Windows), create a new project (choose a project template), search for .NET iOS, then you can find two templates written by C#, one is iOS Tabbed Application (with tabs), the other is iOS Application (single iOS app).

If you are using VS for Mac, please follow the steps blow:

Open VS for Mac->New->iOS->App->.NET->iOS Application/iOS Tabbed Application.

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there is not ios template

Please run dotnet workload install maui-ios to install.

Best Regards,

Wenyan Zhang

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Answer 2

as Xamarin support ended 5/1/2024, only Maui iOS apps are supported. in VS just create a Maui App. then setup pair to Mac, pick an iOS simulator, and click run.

note: if you want native iOS app without Maui, there is no template. probably easiest to create a Maui app, and remove the Maui forms references. while not documented, storyboard files are still supported at build, but there is no VS support.