I recently installed Visual studio on my mac using parallels, and I love it! The only thing windows has better than mac is visual studios. Anyway Im wondering if theres a better way to sync projects. Because this works good but every time I sync a visual studio project I have to manually add the references to the UnityEditor.dll and UnityEngine.dll.
Anyone have an update on how to properly use V.S., Parallels, OS X and Unity3D together? It would be wonderful 
i think the only way is to have unity running in a parallels window and visual studio also. You can get it to work but you have to manually add the two dlls every time to not get errors. I ended up going back to monodevelop. Visual Studios the only thing windows has over mac in my books
I just bought the new Parallels 7 and I have VS 2010. I’ve tried to synch the project file. VS migrated the sly file to a new version. All works fine except VS can’t find Unity’s dll files.
Yeah that was my problem. You can manually add the references and it works great, except you have to do that each time you reopen VS. Wasnt worth it for me
It should possible to add the .dll via script on start up, no?
why do you want to use visual studio instead of mono developer?
probably i just didnt want to spend to much time getting it to work. And visual studio is 100 times better than mono develop
VS2010+CodeExpress/Resharper/VisualAssist blows away any other IDE on any other platform. Period. You are free to hate on VS all you like, but as a programmer’s tool, it is beyond compare. SlickEdit comes a distant second in terms of functionality and versatility but it also lacks the third-party support.
Using VS 2013 and Unity 4.6 Beta:
- In Unity preferences, browse for “Microsoft Visual Studio 2013.app” (under “Applications (Parallels)/Windows 7 Applications/” where “Windows 7” is the name of your Virtual Machine. Visual Studio 2013 should now be selected as the external editor.
- In Unity, select “Assets → Sync MonoDevelop Project” and Visual Studio should now open in your Parallels desktop.
- In Visual Studio, for each of the projects in the solution explorer, right click and select properties. Select “Reference Paths”
- Add the following reference paths where Z:\ is your shared drive in Parallels
a. Z:\Applications\Unity\Unity.app\Contents\Frameworks\Managed
b. Z:\Applications\Unity\Unity.app\Contents\Frameworks\Mono\lib\mono\unity
c. Z:\Applications\Unity\Unity.app\Contents\UnityExtensions\Unity\GUISystem\4.6.0\
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Did this actually work for you to run VS2013 as the Unity Mono editor with no problems?
Ok i did this its running … and i followed all the steps u mentioned above… some of the errors are gone
but im using
using Holoville.HOTween; it shows red in visual studio and henve everything related to it.
moreover if i have an error in unity console and i double click on that error it doesnt takes me to the line like it normally behaves in mono ?
Is there any auto solution or update to this? Since even adding those 3 dlls is not enough for some cases