Visual Studio Mac problem

[Wick Wrangler]

I've been using Visual Studio for editing Ninjascript for the last month or so.

I do my debugging in VS for Windows.

But discovered I can us VS Mac for editing, and the Intellisense has been working fine. I share my Windows drive, and mount it on the Mac side to get to the NT VS project.

Yesterday the Mac version suddenly can't seem to see any Ninja libraries, and I get the error you can see in images below. The Windows version is working fine.

Still fairly new to C# and VS (not to programming).

I know this isn't an NT issue, but if anyone has any idea how to get it working again I'd appreciate it; it would suck to lose the capability to edit on the Mac side.

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hello, thanks for your post.

Visual Studio for Macintosh supports .NET Core. Unfortunately, it will not recognize NinjaTrader DLLs because NinjaTrader 8 uses standard .NET 4, and that is only available on Windows machines. To edit through Visual Studio you should install VS community on your Windows machine.

Best regards,
-ChrisL

[Wick Wrangler]

As I said, it was working fine for a month on the Mac version, until yesterday.

Maybe it shouldn't have, but it did, regardless of the .NET version.

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hello Wick Wrangler, Thanks for your reply.

I wouldn't expect the Mac version to work since it can not load the same debug symbols as a standard Windows 10 installation. If .NET standard does not exist on the machine, it probably will not work.

[Wick Wrangler]

Interesting, it can't see these:

using NinjaTrader.Cbi;
using NinjaTrader.Gui;
using NinjaTrader.Gui.Chart;
using NinjaTrader.Gui.SuperDom;
using NinjaTrader.Gui.Tools;
using NinjaTrader.Data;
using NinjaTrader.Core.FloatingPoint;

But does see these:

using NinjaTrader.NinjaScript.Indicators;
using NinjaTrader.NinjaScript.DrawingTools;
using NinjaTrader.NinjaScript;

So, I'm getting Intellisense completions on Indicators and Drawing Tools.

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hello Wick Wrangler, thanks for your reply.

We do not have any mac machines to test on, and since it is the mac version that would go outside of the scope of support I can provide, regrettably.