Is there any way of working with viewmodel templates on a Mac, running MacOS

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Hans Ravnsfjall

Posted on 06/09/2018 10:36:56

Have asked about this topic earlier, but I am hoping maybe there is some news on this?

Is this possible somehow in a Mac Enviroment - utilizing intelisense, without running paralel desktops?

/Hans

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Nicolai Pedersen

Posted on 06/09/2018 13:58:20

Hi Hans

I am affraid there is nothing new for this. See https://doc.dynamicweb.com/forum/development/razor-view-models-intellisense-on-mac

The latest development is this: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2018/05/07/visual-studio-for-mac-version-7-5-and-beyond/

But I am affraid you will not see intellisense with Dynamicweb.dlls (or any .net dlls not on the .net Core) before we move Dynamicweb to .NET core.

Sorry about the inconvenience.

Nicolai

Jimmy Hartington

Posted on 02/02/2021 22:43:37

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I am using the latetst Visual Studio for Mac (not Visual Studio Code) https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/ and have got it to work.

We use Azure DevOps for version control. So from DevOps I copy the clone link.

Clone the repository in Visual Studio for Mac.

The bin folder is not downloaded, so I download the contents of that to my local repository.

Also download the .vs folder from solution.

Now when I open the .sln file in Visual Studio for Mac, I have Intellisense working.

See this video: https://d.pr/v/J7VWLB

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Nicolai Pedersen

Posted on 03/02/2021 09:44:08

Nice! Thanks for sharing. Looks promising.

Dynamicweb 9.10 released just last week has all its core packages as .net standard compatible and we are moving onto .net 5/core. So in a not too far a distance you might even be able to run Dynamicweb on your mac as well!

BR Nicolai

Hans Ravnsfjall

Posted on 03/02/2021 09:57:47

Very Cool Jimmy 👍🏻

Have a few questions that I hope you don´t mind answering.

Does it have to be a Custom solution, or do you just get the bin folder from the doc portal?

What is the .vs folder?

/Hans

Hans Ravnsfjall

Posted on 03/02/2021 10:00:54

@Nicolai, that is great news. Any timeframe on that one? Are we talking 6 months, a year - or more?

Any timeframe on Dynamicweb 10?

/Hans

Jimmy Hartington

Posted on 03/02/2021 11:34:09

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I do not know enough to know if it has to be a custom solution.
If the bin folder contains the right files to enable Intellisense from the doc portal, then perhaps this is enough.

It seems the .vs folder is settings from Visual Studio. And since some of my colleguaes are on Windows maybe it was created there, when they use Visual Studio and then it is synced to Azure DevOps.
Maybe this is folder is not relevant.

What I got working now is just for one project to test if it works. And it is more trial and error then concrete knowledge about where the Intellisence for the Dynamicweb is read from

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Nicolai Pedersen

Posted on 03/02/2021 11:42:53

I think this Microsoft documentation can also help: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/csharp

Hans Ravnsfjall

Posted on 03/02/2021 11:42:57

Ok, thank you very mutch :)

/Hans

Hans Ravnsfjall

Posted on 03/02/2021 13:03:05

@Nicolai, can you clarify what is needed?

I assume you have to have the bin folder on your local project, for the references and there by - the intellisence so work?

Does it have to be a custom solution you are working on, or is it "enough" to copy the bin folder from the same version, to your local folder?

We use GitHub for version control, and typically we just copy the relevant designfolder to the repository, and put everything in that - and work from there.

/Hans

Nicolai Pedersen

Posted on 03/02/2021 15:19:53

I do not know anything that is not in the MS docs. It is a very precise description, so try to follow that and see what happens.

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