They cant have just discontinued support for VS2017 so it SEEMS like an oversight, but who knows.

Visual Studio Vs Xcode Mac But This

VS 2017 gives me the option to override the Xamarin.iOS SDK on the Mac but this seems like a drastic solution.

My VS 2017 was suddenly looking for 5.18 and my Mac had 5.16 even though I have been coding on it all day.

So I updated Visual Studio on my Mac but did not realize it was updating VS for Mac to 2019.

Now I have the same Mono versions but now VS 2017 is expecting Xamarin.iOS SDK 12.4 but my Mac has 12.6.

I too also did not realize until too late that it was the 2019 update on the Mac side when I updated it all.

There were no issues, may be because I am not using any extraordinary Nuget Packages besides SQLite and JSON.

Visual Studio Vs Xcode Upgrade VS2017 To

I couldnt find a way to upgrade VS2017 to Xamarin.iOS 12.6 in a reasonable time.

CTurner: Downgrading the Mac to 12.4 let me get past this blocker.

You kept VS2019 on MAC, and downgraded Xamarin.iOS to 12.4, or you also had to downgrade VS2019 - 2017 on your MAC.

I was considering filing a bugissue report on the Xamarin.iOS Github page, but I wasnt sure if this was technically more of a VS issue.

I am also very discouraged that the VS on Mac update did not better convey that it would upgrade my VS version to 2019 IN PLACE especially given that there would be no way to connect to my Mac using VS 2017.

How can I do that on the Mac I could not find such option in MacVS2019.

I tried from WinVS2017 (that offered to install 12.4 on the Mac during connection), but it fails to install, and asks me to do on the Mac directly.

I cant post links yet, but the page on the Xamarin Releases pages indicates 15.9.11 includes this.

But as mentioned in other posts, if you upgrade VS for Mac, it will install Xamarin iOS 12.6.

Visual Studio For Mac Vs Xcode