Chris Hamons

Ahead of Time Compilation with Xamarin.Mac

As you might know, .NET applications by default do not compile down to machine code when you build. They compile down to an intermediate layer, called IL, that looks something like this:

The standard .NET build system always does a complication pass when converting your C#/F# code from .cs files to binaries (.dll or .exe). It parses your code, converts it into IL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Intermediate_Language).

The “normal” .NET execution model then loads these binaries into memory and compiles…

How a default behavior change broke Mac App Store Submissions

In Xamarin.Mac 3.2 one of the focuses was improving general application performance. In additional to Ahead of Time complication and the partial static registrar smaller improvements were looked into to speed up launch time…

A history lesson on the Xamarin.Mac target frameworks and their new names

All .NET applications depend upon classes and methods from the Base Class Library (BCL) as part of their implementation — Strings, System.Console, System.IO.Path, System.Net.Http.HttpClient and so on.