--- title: Getting Started with Visual Studio & Uno Platform + AI description: A walkthrough of setting up Uno Platform for cross-platform .NET development in Visual Studio 2022/2026, covering the Uno Platform extension, the uno-check CLI... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-started-with-visual-studio-uno-platform-ai-y7kofimgx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Getting Started with Visual Studio & Uno Platform + AI | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of setting up Uno Platform for cross-platform .NET development in Visual Studio 2022/2026, covering the Uno Platform extension, the uno-check CLI... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/getting-started-with-visual-studio-uno-platform-ai-y7kofimgx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Y7KofiMGX.png og:image:alt: Getting Started with Visual Studio & Uno Platform + AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Getting Started with Visual Studio & Uno Platform + AI **[We Are .NET](https://daily.dev/sources/wearedotnet)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of setting up Uno Platform for cross-platform .NET development in Visual Studio 2022/2026, covering the Uno Platform extension, the uno-check CLI tool, project scaffolding wizard, hot reload and hot design features, and AI-assisted development using GitHub Copilot in agent mode with two MCP servers: one for documentation context and one for live app interactivity. 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