Hello Friends,
Can we run Visual Studio on Mac OS X. Actually, I have planned to buy apple mac book pro, but am not sure is Visual Studio IDE work on it or not.
Thanks...
Nirajan
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Visual Studio only runs on Windows, so you would need virtualisation software (VMWare Fusion or Parallels) or Boot Camp. There is WINE which allows some Windows programs to run on OS X, but I doubt you'd want to use it for Visual Studio even if it did work.
Adam Ruth
2010-02-07 07:24:10
And it looks like people are successfully doing it: http://blog.1530technologies.com/2006/08/visual_studione.html http://weblogs.asp.net/jeff/archive/2006/07/20/Anyone-using-Visual-Studio-in-Parallels-on-a-MacBook-Pro_3F00_.aspx http://forum.parallels.com/thread1788.html
T.J. Crowder
2010-02-07 07:27:11
Run Windows in VMWare Fusion. That's what I do!
snicker
2010-02-07 07:27:13
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Use virtualization software to install windows on MAC and than install visual studio. Another option is monodevelop IDE.
Adeel
2010-02-07 07:33:08
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Subjective: I have the latest version of Parallels (that's 5.0) running Windows 7, and I think Visual Studio works fine under this setup. YMMV.
What's NOT subjective is that you WILL need virtualization software of some sort or another to attempt this. It doesn't work under WINE.
If you just want to develop .NET framework apps, though, you can install the Mono compilers and use a different IDE (like Eclipse, or MonoDevelop).
Arkaaito
2010-02-07 07:34:30