There are a couple of steps to jump through the first time you want to use Hot Restart. Click the play button, which will kick off the Setup Hot Restart experience. Make sure in the toolbar the option next to the play button says Local Device. Next, set your iOS project to be the startup project by right-clicking the iOS project in Solution Explorer, followed by the Set as Startup Project menu item. I’m working in the latest preview of Visual Studio 2019 and as of now, to use Xamarin Hot Restart (the feature that powers the no Mac development experience), you need to check the Enable Xamarin Hot Restart option under Preview Features in the Tools, Options dialog.Īfter enabling Xamarin Hot Restart, make sure you restart Visual Studio. In this post I’ll walk you through how to enable this feature. That’s right for development, you no longer need to invest, or carry around, a Mac. If you’re a die-hard Windows user, like me, you’ll be excited to know that you can now build iOS application using Xamarin (and Xamarin.Forms) and Visual Studio, without having to buy or use a Mac. If you get “myProject.iOS is not configured to deploy”, go to Build –> Configuration Manager and click “deploy”.It will make you setup a few other things first. Go to and setup a provisioning profile.Right-click iOS project –> Properties –> iOS Bundle Signing –> Manage accounts –> View Details –> Create Certificate –> Create development certificate.If you get stuck at “Running automatic provisioning” in Step 3 of the wizard, you need to.Instead the project type needs to be either “iOS XAML App (Xamarin Forms)” or “Mobile App (Xamarin Forms) If you create the iOS project using Add –> New Project –> “iOS App (Xamarin)”, you won’t see “Local Device” in the dropdown.They say it takes up to 48 hours, but I had to wait 1.5 weeks to become accepted -_. You need to sign up for Apple development program AND wait to be accepted.And a bug related to Hot Restart was recently fixed in VS 2022. You NEED the latest version of VS 2022.You MUST have the Microsoft Store version in order for it to work. The non-Microsoft-store version of iTunes does NOT work anymore.Thanks to BlueRaja who was prepared to document their experience, here are a bunch of updates/changes/fixes that need to be applied when following this post:

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