Hot Restart is a Visual Studio feature, which is currently in preview, to make developers more productive. It also gives us a way of running and debugging iOS apps on an iPhone without having to use a Mac connected to Visual Studio. Microsoft describes Hot Restart as follows:
"Xamarin Hot Restart enables you to quickly test changes to your app during development, including multi-file code edits, resources, and references. It pushes the new changes to the existing app bundle on the debug target which results in a much faster build and deploy cycle.
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To use Hot Restart, you need the following:
- Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 or later
- iTunes (64 bit)
- An Apple Developer account and paid Apple Developer Program (https://developer.apple.com/programs/) enrollment
Hot Restart can currently only be used with Xamarin.Forms apps.
To activate Hot Restart, go to Tools | Options | Environment | Preview Features | Enable Xamarin Hot Restart.
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