AI-Powered macOS App Development with .NET 10 and C# 14: Build Intelligent Mac Applications with Generative AI, RAG, MCP, Local Models, Tool Calling,

By: Cole, Ryan

Build Intelligent macOS Applications with .NET 10 and C# 14

What if your next Mac application could understand conversations, search private documents, use AI tools, work with local models, and perform real actions? AI-Powered macOS App Development with .NET 10 and C# 14 provides a practical, project-driven guide to building intelligent macOS applications with .NET 10, C# 14, .NET MAUI, Mac Catalyst, and modern AI technologies.

Throughout the book, you will build IntelliMac, an evolving intelligent Mac application that grows from a basic .NET MAUI project into a production-ready AI application. You will establish a professional architecture using XAML, MVVM, dependency injection, services, persistence, configuration, and logging before progressively adding conversational AI, streaming responses, structured outputs, document processing, embeddings, vector search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

The book also explores local AI with Ollama, allowing you to work with local language models and switch between cloud and local providers. You will learn how to give AI applications real capabilities through C# tool and function calling, file and workspace tools, validation, and human approval. You will then integrate the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and build controlled agentic workflows capable of performing multi-step tasks while maintaining appropriate boundaries.

Beyond AI functionality, the book focuses on the engineering required to ship real software. You will work with macOS Keychain, App Sandbox, security-scoped bookmarks, testing, logging, performance monitoring, error handling, code signing, notarization, packaging, and distribution for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

This book is written for .NET developers, C# programmers, software engineers, desktop developers, and developers interested in AI application development on macOS. If you already understand the fundamentals of C# and want to move beyond simple AI demos into RAG, local LLMs, tool calling, MCP, and agentic applications, this book provides a practical path from your first Mac Catalyst project to a production-ready intelligent application.

Build it. Connect it. Give it intelligence. Ship it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJ8V22SK
• ISBN13: 9798172984549
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"