Getting started with Xamarin.iOS

Get Started in Visual Studio

1. Browse to File > New > Project to bring you up the New Project dialog.

Navigate to Visual C# > iOS > iPhone and select Single View App: [](http://i.stack.imgur.com/FLWsn.png)

1. Give your app a **Name** and press **OK** to create your project.

Select the Mac Agent icon from the toolbar, as illustrated below: [](http://i.stack.imgur.com/nH2rm.png)

Select the Mac that will build your application from the list (make sure you Mac is set up to receive the connection!), and press **Connect**: [](http://i.stack.imgur.com/EeLxo.png)

1. To run your application, select the **Debug | iPhoneSimulator** configuration, and press the Play button:[](http://i.stack.imgur.com/DPD9M.png)

This will launch the iOS Simulator on the Mac, and will display your empty application: [](http://i.stack.imgur.com/j6cAT.png)

Get Started in Xamarin Studio

Browse to **File > New > Solution** to bring you up the new project dialog

1. Select **Single View App** and press **Next** 1. Configure your app by setting your app name and organization ID, and press **Next**: [](http://i.stack.imgur.com/fpEWw.png)

1. Set your Project name and Solution name, or leave as the default name. Click Create to create your project.

To run your application, select the Debug | iPhone 6s iOS 9.x configuration, and press the **Play** button: [](http://i.stack.imgur.com/vACh6.png)

This will launch the iOS Simulator, and will display your empty application: [](http://i.stack.imgur.com/g0XIw.png)

Hello, World

1. Double click on the Main.Storyboard file.
2. Set View As to iPhone 6:
3. Drag a label and a button from the Toolbox to the design surface so that it looks like the image below:
4. In the Properties pad, give the label and button the following properties:

|nothing|Name|Title |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|--- |Label|lblClicks|[blank] |Button|clickMe|Click Me!

1. Add the following code to the ViewDidLoad method inside the ViewController class:

clickMe.TouchUpInside += (sender, e) =>
{
    totalClicks++;
    if (totalClicks == 1)
    {
        lblClicks.Text = totalClicks + " Click";
    }

   else {
       lblClicks.Text = totalClicks + " Clicks";
   }
};

1. Run the application

Remarks

Xamarin.iOS allows you to create native iOS applications using the same UI controls you would in Objective-C and Xcode, but with the flexibility and elegance of a modern language (C#), the power of the .NET Base Class Library (BCL), and two first-class IDEs - Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio - at your fingertips.

For more information on installing Xamarin.iOS on your Mac or Windows machine, refer to the Getting Started guides on the Xamarin developer center