XAML is much, much easier to work with than XWT, Visual Studio Macs UI framework.Therefore, there are compelling reasons to use Xamarin.Forms to build Visual Studio Mac extensions: As a bootstrapped business, this time-cost makes it prohibitively expensive to develop tools that are UI-centric. Ever since I commercialised MFractor in June 2017, I've been pulled to the idea of using XAML and Xamarin.Forms to build user interfaces for Visual Studio Mac extensions.įor MFractor, developing tools like the Image Wizard or Localisation Wizard cost days to weeks of engineering effort.
