COMP 170 – Introduction to Object Oriented Programming Dr. Robert Yacobellis Instructor, Department of Computer Science 1

Installing COMP 170 Software Installing and Verifying Mono Project and Xamarin Studio on Mac OS X and Windows Using provided installers from LUC Box Verifying that the software installed properly Using the examples folder in Xamarin Studio Opening as a “Solution” in Xamarin Studio

Installing Mono Project and Xamarin Studio All required installers for COMP 170 are in a shared LUC Box folder at this URL: https://luc.box.com/s/zu76yo7uao5yfijmjch1 There are zip files for Mac OS X and Windows with numbered installer files – execute them in that order You should be using OS X Mountain Lion or later on a Mac If you have Win 7 or later you may not need to install .NET The installers install the Mono Project “software development kit” (SDK) and the Xamarin Studio “integrated development environment” (IDE) See the next slides for how to verify that they installed properly

Verifying Mono Project On Mac OS X, open a Terminal window*; on Windows press the Windows key and start typing Mono, then select Mono Command Prompt First type mono and press enter – you should see a usage message Then type mcs and enter – you should see an error message saying No files to compile were specified Last, type csharp and enter – you should see a few lines of text and csharp>; type quit; and enter to exit If all of these work, the Mono SDK is properly installed * Use Spotlight to find the OS X Terminal App

Verifying Xamarin Studio On Mac OS X, Xamarin Studio is in Applications; on Windows press the Windows key and start typing Xamarin, then select Xamarin Studio Click New Solution in the Xamarin window, then select C# on the left and Console Project on the right Enter hello as the Name, test as the Solution; click OK You will now see a window with a Solution “Pad” on the left and a file Program.cs open in an editor window; you can now close Xamarin Studio When you open Xamarin Studio again you will see the test Solution as a choice on the Welcome page

Using the examples Folder in Xamarin Studio Opening the examples folder as a “Solution” Run Xamarin Studio On Windows, press the Windows key, start typing Xamarin, and select Xamarin Studio when that name appears; on a Mac, select Xamarin Studio in the Applications directory Click Open and navigate to your examples folder / directory, scroll down, and select examples.sln by double-clicking it or clicking it and pressing Enter You should now see all of the “Project” folders within that examples “Solution”, available to experiment with If you select View  Welcome Page or open Xamarin Studio again, the examples “Solution” will appear there from now on

Installing COMP 170 Software Installing and Verifying Mono Project and Xamarin Studio on Mac OS X and Windows Using provided installers from LUC Box Verifying that the software installed properly Using the examples folder in Xamarin Studio Opening as a “Solution” in Xamarin Studio