Creating OS X applications with MS Visual Studio Express

This tutorial teaches you how to write a Mac OS X application with Microsoft Visual Studio Express (Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++ or Visual J# Express). This article is not to suggest replacing Apple's Xcode with Microsoft Visual Studio, but in hope to provide Visual Studio programmers a faster way to port Windows applications to Mac OS X.

Before we start
In order to write an OS X application from Windows environment, you will need following environment and tools:

.NET Framework
Microsoft Visual Studio Express (just one language will do)
Mono Framework for Mac OS X
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Microsoft .NET Framework
You will need Microsoft .NET Framework installed on the Windows machine you wish to create application with. If your Windows installation does not have .NET Framework installed, you should install it from Windows installation disc.

Microsoft Visual Studio Express
(Visual Basic Express, Visual C# Express, Visual C++ Express or Visual J# Express)
Microsoft offers Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition for free, you can get it from this MSDN page.
We use Visual C# 2005 Express for this tutorial.

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