If you want to do manual signing, you need to create a provisioning Profile for your app. For detailed information about Xcode automatic signing, see automatic signing. Xcode provides automatic signing, where it creates signing certificates for you as needed. If you're using an iOS device for development, a provisioning Profile configured in Xcode for your device

See Add your Apple ID account for detailed instructions.įor detailed information on signing requirements, see What is app signing. Select Accounts and choose your Apple ID, and then choose the View Details button. To see or set your signing identity in Xcode, open the Xcode menu and choose Preferences. To install the Xcode command-line tools, open the Terminal app on your Mac and enter the following command:Īn Apple ID account configured in Xcode as a signing identity to sign apps Xcode can be downloaded from the App Store. You can get a free account that allows sideloading apps to an iOS device for testing only but not for distribution. To install and use the vcremote remote agent to develop code for iOS, you must first have these prerequisites:Ī Mac computer running macOS Mojave version 10.14 or laterĪn active Apple Developer Program account It describes ways to quickly configure and update vcremote for iOS development in Visual Studio and on your Mac. Once you've installed the tools to build using iOS, refer to this article again. To use the instructions to build using C++, substitute vcremote for remotebuild.

The instructions are for building using Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova. For information on using cloud-hosted Mac services instead of a Mac, see Configure Visual Studio to connect to your cloud hosted Mac.

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