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How to install a missing Xamarin SDK for an existing installation of Visual Studio for Mac?


I want to develop a Mac app using Xamarin. However, when I open the New Project wizard, the Mac templates are nowhere to be found.

I saw "Missing Project Templates for Mac Apps" on the Xamarin forum, but I could not find much else about this topic online, although the answer in that thread did clear up that I don't have the SDK, but (thankfully) my Xcode path is valid.

How can I install Xamarin.Mac (or any other Xamarin SDK) for an existing installation of Visual Studio for Mac?


Solution

  • After some more searching online, I found Install Visual Studio 2017 for Mac in the Visual Studio docs, which finally cleared everything up:

    Note

    If you chose not to install a platform or tool during the original installation [...] you must run the installer again if you wish to add the components later.

    (The installer itself is around 30 MB, so, not too bad.)