I am a wanna-be programmer aka computer science student and I have a lecture in C#. But I only have a Mac and a Linux computer.
I need to be able to program an app with interface and logic (XAML/C#). And I don't know how I can do that on Linux. Please help me! I don't have Windows on any computer. I know that I can program the "backend" in C# on Linux but I can't use the visual tool.
Avalonia is an open source cross-platform XAML Framework for .NET Framework, .NET Core and Mono.
Avalonia uses a XAML dialect that should feel immediately familiar to anyone coming from WPF, UWP and Xamarin Forms. Avalonia supports binding, MVVM, lookless controls and data templates, just as you'd expect from a XAML framework.
XML Complete extension for Visual Studio Code helps with editing XML files by providing hints. Sample schema files are provided for XAML file types (WPF, Avalonia) and for csproj files.
Visual Studio Code is much less full-featured than Visual Studio, but it has the capability of running GUI applications. If that's not enough functionality for your coursework try Visual Studio 2019 for Mac. Be aware before you install anything that you'll probably have to install some extra packages to go with either Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio.
