To validate your Xamarin installation on a Mac, we will use Visual Studio for Mac to create a new Xamarin.Forms application and then run it on both iOS and Android to check both environments. Start by creating a new Xamarin.Forms project. Download Visual Studio Code for macOS. Double-click on the downloaded archive to expand the contents. Drag Visual Studio Code.app to the Applications folder, making it available in the Launchpad. I recently installed Visual Studio for mac right after the day it was launched. It consumed 20 gb of my disc space, so I decided to remove it. I went in to the applications folder and moved recently.
- Uninstall Visual Studio for Mac The first step in uninstalling Visual Studio from a Mac is to locate Visual Studio.app in the /Applications directory and drag it to the Trash Can. Alternatively, right-click and select Move to Trash as illustrated in the following image.
- Uninstall Visual Studio App for Mac. The first rung on the ladder in uninstalling Aesthetic Studio from a Macintosh is to find Visual Studio.app in the /Applications website directory and pull it to the Garbage Can. Otherwise, right-click and choose Move to Garbage as illustrated in the next image.
This executable is designed to clean up and delete Preview, RC and final releases of Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2015. It is designed to be used as a final resort to clean up a system of remaining artifacts from a non-successful installation, instead of having to reimage the machine.
WARNING: running this application may stop earlier remaining installations of Visual Studio 2012 and earlier from working, because Visual Studio 2012 and below share MSI upgrade code with Visual Studio 2013 and above.
Download: https://github.com/Microsoft/VisualStudioUninstaller/releases
This app finds and uninstall every Preview/RC/RTM release of Visual Studio 2013 and 2015. It will first execute uninstall command on the bundle, and then it will uninstall any stale MSIs. The application contains a master list of Bundle IDs and upgrade codes for every MSI ever chained in by Visual Studio 2013-2015. It will not uninstall MSU or MSIs that marked as ReallyPermanent.
Shipped
See CONTRIBUTING.md
Our goal is to provide a way to thoroughly and reliably remove Visual Studio. This program first attempts to force uninstall Visual Studio from top down, and then remove any remaining MSIs and MSUs. This program will work on any BURN based Visual Studio; that means this program is only capable of removing Visual Studio 2012 - 2015.
How to debug Total Uninstaller remotely?
IMPORTANT: Do not run this on your development machine without setting the
DoNotExecuteProcess
flag. This will prevent the application from uninstalling the very development environment you are working from.To get the most out of the debug experience, I recommend the following:
- Create a VM with Dev14 installed.
- Start the 64-bit remote debugger with administrative privileges.
- Copy the debug Bin directory to the VM.
- Run the application with Administrative privileges.
- Create a snapshot of the machine using Hyper-V.
- Start a remote debugging session to your VM and attach.
- Step through to your hearts delight.
- If you find something you don’t like, restore the snapshot and recopy the Bin directory and go to step 6 again.
Using Total Uninstall:
- Download and unzip the zip file to a folder.
- Open cmd.exe with Administrative privileges
- Execute Setup.ForcedUninstall.exe
- Press Y and hit enter to run the application.
- If the application ask to reboot the system, please reboot the system, and rerun this application again.
Commands:
- help or /help or /? : Print usage.
- break : run the application and pause until the user hit any key.
- noprocess : run the application but does not uninstall anything.
- Periodically update of the Total Uninstaller to ensure the data used for uninstallation is up to date with the most recent Visual Studio releases.
Please file an issue request as necessary.
These are general guidelines for source code within this solution:
Native code
- Parameters should be declared with SAL annotation.
- Input string parameters should be declared as LPCWSTR.
- Output string parameters should be declared as CStringW& references.
- Class members should not be references or pointers, but be created and destroyed with the owning class.
Managed code
Please follow these coding standards:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Ff926074.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
-->You can use this guide to uninstall each component in Visual Studio for Mac individually by navigating to the relevant section, or you can use the scripts provided in the Uninstall Script section to uninstall everything.
If you have previously had Xamarin Studio installed on your machine, you may also need to follow the instructions in Xamarin's uninstall guide, in addition to the following steps.
Note
This information will only remove Visual Studio 2019 or 2017 for Mac from your machine. to uninstall Visual Studio Code, see this issue for details.
Uninstall Script
There are two scripts that can be used to uninstall Visual Studio for Mac and all components for your machine:
The following sections provide information on downloading and using the scripts.
Visual Studio for Mac and Xamarin script
You can uninstall Visual Studio and Xamarin components in one go by using the uninstall script.
This uninstall script contains most of the commands that you will find in the article. There are three main omissions from the script and are not included due to possible external dependencies. To remove this, jump to the relevant section below and remove them manually:
To run the script, do the following steps:
- Right-click on the script and select Save As to save the file on your Mac.
- Open Terminal and change the working directory to where the script was downloaded:
- Make the script executable and the run it with sudo:
- Finally, delete the uninstall script and remove Visual Studio for Mac from the dock (if it's there).
.NET Core script
The uninstall script for .NET Core is located in the dotnet cli repo
To run the script, do the following steps:
- Right-click on the script and select Save As to save the file on your Mac.
- Open Terminal and change the working directory to where the script was downloaded:
- Make the script executable and the run it with sudo:
- Finally, delete the .NET Core uninstall script.
Uninstall Visual Studio for Mac
The first step in uninstalling Visual Studio from a Mac is to locate Visual Studio.app in the /Applications directory and drag it to the Trash Can. Alternatively, right-click and select Move to Trash as illustrated in the following image:
Deleting this app bundle removes Visual Studio for Mac, even though there may be other files related to Xamarin still on the file system.
To remove all traces of Visual Studio for Mac, run the following commands in Terminal:
You may also want to remove the following directory containing various Xamarin files and folders. However, before you do you should be aware that this directory contains the Android signing keys. For more information refer to the section Uninstalling Android SDK and Java SDK:
Uninstall Mono SDK (MDK)
Mono is an open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework and is used by all Xamarin Products—Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Mac to allow development of these platforms in C#.
Warning
![Uninstall Visual Studio For Mac Uninstall Visual Studio For Mac](/uploads/1/2/4/8/124816705/363941433.png)
Uninstall Visual Studio Code Mac Os
There are other applications outside of Visual Studio for Mac that also use Mono, such as Unity.Be sure that there are no other dependencies on Mono before uninstalling it.
To remove the Mono Framework from a machine, run the following commands in Terminal:
Uninstall Xamarin.Android
Uninstall Vscode Mac
There are a number of items required for the installation and use of Xamarin.Android, such as the Android SDK and Java SDK.
Use the following commands to remove Xamarin.Android:
Uninstall Android SDK and Java SDK
The Android SDK is required for development of Android applications. To completely remove all parts of the Android SDK, locate the file at ~/Library/Developer/Xamarin/ and move it to Trash.
Warning
You should be aware that Android signing keys that are generated by Visual Studio for Mac are located in
~/Library/Developer/Xamarin/Keystore
. Make sure to back these up appropriately, or avoid removing this directory if you wish to keep your keystore.The Java SDK (JDK) does not need to be uninstalled, as it is already pre-packaged as part of Mac OS X / macOS.
Uninstall Android AVD
Uninstall Visual Studio 2017 Mac
Warning
There are other applications outside of Visual Studio for Mac that also use Android AVD and these additional android components, such as Android Studio.Removing this directory may cause projects to break in Android Studio.
To remove any Android AVDs and additional Android components use the following command:
To remove only the Android AVDs use the following command:
Uninstall Xamarin.iOS
Xamarin.iOS allows iOS application development using C# or F# with Visual Studio for Mac.
Use the following commands in Terminal to remove all Xamarin.iOS files from a file system:
Uninstall Xamarin.Mac
Xamarin.Mac can be removed from your machine using the following two commands to eradicate the product and license from your Mac respectively:
Uninstall Workbooks and Inspector
Starting with 1.2.2, Xamarin Workbooks & Inspector can be uninstalled from a terminal by running:
For older versions, you need to manually remove the following artifacts:
- Delete the Workbooks app at
'/Applications/Xamarin Workbooks.app'
- Delete the Inspector app at
'Applications/Xamarin Inspector.app'
- Delete the add-ins:
'~/Library/Application Support/XamarinStudio-6.0/LocalInstall/Addins/Xamarin.Interactive'
and'~/Library/Application Support/XamarinStudio-6.0/LocalInstall/Addins/Xamarin.Inspector'
- Delete Inspector and supporting files here:
/Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.Interactive.framework
and/Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.Inspector.framework
Uninstall the Xamarin Profiler
Uninstall the Visual Studio Installer
Use the following commands to remove all traces of the Xamarin Universal Installer:
Uninstall Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview was launched as a separate preview, allowing you to continue to work with your Visual Studio 2017 for Mac install side-by-side.
Now that Visual Studio 2019 for Mac has been released, you can now safely remove the Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview application.
To uninstall the preview application bundle, select Visual Studio (Preview) from your Applications folder and click Move to Trash, as depicted in the following image:
You can also remove the Preview plist file with the following command: