27
May
Running Visual Studio 2010 on the Mac
Following a few recent presentations, I’ve had a couple of people ask how I run Visual Studio on the Mac.
You’ll be sad to hear that I don’t have a special version of Visual Studio for Mac OSX – instead I am using VMWare Fusion 3.1 to run a copy of Windows 7 in a virtual machine. Fusion has a mode called “Unity” which allows windows from the virtual machine to interact with windows on the host operating system (even to the point where I can put icons for Windows-based applications in the dock on the Mac). There is a little performance hit running applications in this way vs. a full screen virtual machine, but it’s certainly useful for presentations where you are flipping between both environments.
Thanks for the tip Simon. I’ve just installed VMWare Fusion 3.0 on my MacBook Pro and I am loving it! Not bad for $80 US. It’s really nice for presentations and very stable, as well.
Did you get the Windows Phone Emulator run with VMWare Fusion?
@Allen – it works, but it’s very slow. A side effect of a virtualized layer running on top of another virtualized stack I have a separate machine that I typically use for WP7 dev.
Are you able to test sites and debug? I am not able to and it might be because this was set up incorrectly, I’m not sure.
Yes, should work OK – my recommendation would be to setup a private, 2nd network between the VM and host machine. You can do this by adding a 2nd network adapter in VMWare Fusion.
Hi, can you please advise on performance issues when using Unity ? we loose around 20% perf. memory wise. thanks for this great post!