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Two approaches that spring to mind would be to run VSCode on the Mac rather than Visual Studio - you might find it's decent enough and does what you need.

If you need the full Visual Studio experience, then another option would be the Windows/Arm64 build of Visual Studio, and run that on a virtual box.

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> the Windows/Arm64 build of Visual Studio

There is no such thing. "Visual Studio for Mac" is a re-spin of MonoDevelop, and doesn't compare to the actual VS in any way, shape or form.

The closest you can get to VS-on-ARM-Mac right now is using a JetBrains IDE, but, as useful as these are, it's really no competition...

No. The full-fat Visual Studio is native arm64 nowadays!

Do need to have Parallels and Windows installation on macOS. But other than that, can run a native version of Visual Studio on ARM64.

As they say on Wikipedia: [Citation needed]

Where can I get this 'full fat' ARM build of VS? I'll settle for a Win64-ARM release, but I'll personally provision a botnet to upvote you to Mars in case you point me to an Apple-Silicon-on-MacOS DMG...

The same place you download the x86 build: visualstudio.com

See: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/arm64-visual-stu...

Right. And I run Windows for ARM64 (WoA64) in Parallels on my M3 Mac, and install VS in it (ARM64 version) and runs fine.

Thank you so much, as you can see, I truly didn't know that. Maybe tuning out Microsoft messaging to the max wasn't the best decision after all...

Actually it started like that, but eventually they started sharing code with VS, not that it matters any longer, as VS4Mac has been killed.

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