Running multiple instances of Xamarin Studio on a Mac

I love developing software on my MacBook air! I got the latest version with the maximum possible specifications (i7, 8GB internal mem, 512GB SSD disk) so it works Bette R than anything I ever had!

One of the things I was missing (a lot) while developing is that I cannot start 2 instances of the same application on a Mac. In Windows I normally has 2 or 3 instances of Visual Studio open so I can work on several projects/solutions at the SAM E time.

This-the-a-working is not-as easy on a Mac as it's in Windows. If you want to does this you should use the Terminal command open using the-n switch. The description of The-n switch for the Open command is

Open-n  Open A new instance of the application (s) even if one is already running.

Now every time opening a terminal windows and typing this command was a bit irritating but for this you can use the Auto Mator application that comes with the MAC OSx operating system.

First need to create a new document in Automator and choose Application as the type of document:

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Then choose as Action, Run Shell Script. After this you enter the open-n command as the script command, with the Xamarin Studio application as the Applic ation that want to start. So this would is:

Open-n "/applications/xamarin Studio.app"

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Save This document and afterwards double clicking on it would open another instance of Xamarin studio!

Easy, once-know how-to-do this!

Running multiple instances of Xamarin Studio on a Mac