Visual Studio for Mac — Workspaces

Some short notes about using Workspaces in Visual Studio for Mac / Xamarin Studio/ Mono Develop IDE.

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Build workspace

To build workspace, you need to use mdtool (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/mdtool.1.html), which was renamed to vstool.

1. Use alias:

alias vstool="/Applications/Visual\ Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/vstool"

2. Build workspace:

vstool build XToolkit.mdw

2.1. Build with options:

mdtool build -c:Release XToolkit.mdw

mdtool build -c:"Release|AnyCPU" XToolkit.mdw

mdtool build -c:"Release|AnyCPU" -t:Clean XToolkit.mdw

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