Hold down the Ctrl key and select the solution.
Select Open to open the second solution in the Solution Window.Īlternatively, if you've recently opened the solution, you can use the following steps: With your first solution already open, select File > Open.īrowse the file system to find the existing solution. To open a second solution alongside your first solution, use the following steps: Open a second solution inside a single instance To open a second instance of the integrated development environment (IDE), right-click on the Visual Studio icon in your dock or Applications folder, and select New Instance. Open a second instance of Visual Studio for Mac You can override this default behavior by keeping the current workspace open, as described in the Open a second solution section. In addition, when you open a solution, the default behavior is to open the solution in a new workspace and close the current workspace (if necessary). If you require additional instances of the application, you can prompt the system to open it for you, as described in the next section.
This means that if the application you want to use is already open (illustrated by a dot under the icon in the dock), selecting the icon again opens the running instance, rather than a new one. By default, all applications on a Mac, including Visual Studio for Mac, are single-instance apps.
