Visual Studio on Mac Book Pro - macos

I just bought a MacBookPro (13", 250HD, and 4GB Ram) because, among other things, I would like to write iPhone Apps.
I need, anyway, to use VS2010 so I think about installing Sun Virtual Box (I've used and I like it) to run Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2010 and SqlExpress2008.
Have you tried it? How many RAM GBs should I reserve for Windows? If I assign 2GB to Windows, will my Mac run fine with the remaining 2GB?
Thanks!

I run Windows 7 and VS 2010 in VMWare Fusion on my Macbook. It has 2GB of RAM, and I've allocated 1GB to the virtual machine. It can be a bit slow at times, but not massively

I've been running Windows XP and Visual Studio in a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro for about a year. I've found that allocating 2GB to Windows and 2 to OS X seems to work well. Everything runs smoothly as long as you don't try to run too much in the host OS (don't try running Mail, iTunes, Firefox, etc all at the same time). I've not run into any trouble running a slew of apps in the VM.
All that being said, I've not tried it running Windows 7 and with it's higher RAM requirements I wouldn't be surprised if you ran into issues.

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Appcelerator studio won't start (no loading screen)

I'm trying to run appcelerator studio in my Desktop.
AMD Athlon II x4 640 3.00 GHz
Ram 4gb
64bit win 8.1
120Gb SSD Samsung 840 EVO
so, in my laptop i7 8gb ram etc.. run smoothly.
When I'm trying to start the studio doesn't respond, not even in task manager.
I'm using CLI and work fine..
I can't find any log file. Which appc studio keep in workspace which one I have no create yet because I can't open the studio.
I run the command appc platform to start the studio from the CMD but nothing happens and this message appears:
{"success":false,"description":"platform command usage: appcelerator platform <api> <method/arguments>"}
I uninstalled AVAST and check first the blocked programs, but nothing..
I disabled Windows firewall too.
Reinstalled the studio many times using different versions of node. But nothing.
And of course I tried to come in contact with the appc team but I can't....
I'm thinking about 4Gb ram limitation; if that blocks the program from starting.
I also try to open the program logged in and logout from CLI.
Any idea? any one with the same problem?
I am not stuck in loading screen the studio try to verify my account and communicate with server.
Studio just won't start at all.
I'm sorry for my bad English.
sorry for your issue.
First - I am assuming your running Windows (Linux is no longer supported)
The CLI command your using appc platform does not launch studio. That is used for accessing platform APIs and thus requires you to provide an API to use.
To launch studio from the CMD line on Windows you would need to cd into your Appcelerator Studio directory and run the associated program. When installing studio, we do put an icon on the desktop, which is by far the easiest way to start it up.
Your right about your RAM limitation. While you'll find that studio does "run" it will be extremely slow, especially once you start using the Android / Windows emulators etc. Windows takes up 1-2GB of Ram on its own, leaving very little for any development tools.
Our recommended configuration for Windows machines is:
* Windows 8.1 or higher
* 16GB of RAM
I would also think about a faster proc as well.
We are in the process of updating our documentation on the pre-reqs' as its a bit misleading. While we say 4GB of RAM is suitable, what we are talking about is 4GB of 'free memory' on top of everything else you have running, not 4GB of total system memory.

Delphi slow compiling on Windows 10

Somedays ago i have updated from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.
I use Delphi 2007 and Delphi XE in a daily basis, and i've noticed that in both IDEs the normal use seems to be a lot slower than it was in Windows 8.1. Compiling a project seems to take more time than it took previously.
I don't know if it could be the cause but i use Windows in a virtual environment with Parallels. But everything in Win 8 seems to be more fluid.
I don't have any anti-virus and Windows Defender is disabled.
I also noticed that when i compile a project, the CPU never goes higher than 40%, so it seems maybe Delphi is not using all available CPU power for some reason.
My machine is a Macbook Pro with 16GB RAM / Core i7 / SSD. The virtual machine has 3GB of RAM because i use the machine only to Delphi, no more programs opened at the same time. Used memory never reaches more than 2GB.
Does anyone noticed this problem ? Anything i could do to improve ?
Thanks in advance !

Windows Phone 8 SDK crash, mainboard issue

Today i tryed to install wp8 sdk and it installed successfully. but when i'm trying to open visual studio my pc going crash and restart every time. I think its mainboard v-hiper problem or something else. my pc informations
Packard Bell TJ75
CPU : I5 430M
Ram : 3 GB
Graphics : HD 5650 1 GB
BIOS : Phoenix Tec. LTD
how can i fix that problem ?
-Thanks,
Sorry for my english.
What is the crash? A bluescreen? And what codes? Does system event log say anything interesting?
I don't think Visual Studio will try to start the phone emulator until you actually try to debug a phone project in it, so I don't see the immediate connection to Hyper-V.
Does your system crash when you open Visual Studio with no active project? That might absolve Hyper-V.
Alternatively, can you create some other virtual machine image (e.g, from Ubuntu or another Windows), and try booting that one? If your host machine crashes when you do that, then it would implicate Hyper-V.
Windows can crash if it gets too tight on system RAM, and 3G of RAM is not very generous. Both Visual Studio and Hyper-V use a lot of RAM, so you might indeed have problems running them both at the same time.

Windows Phone 7 emulator - won't run in a virtual machine, workarounds?

Macbook Pro 2011 i7 13". Mac OSX 10.6.7, bootcamp partition running Windows 7. Am running a 240GB SSD and 8GB ram, the computer is more than fast enough to run Visual Studio 2010 in a VM.
If I run Visual Studio from Bootcamp it works fine and develop my apps. Reboot into OSX and fire up the same partition using Parallels in either window or coherence mode I get the message:
Windows Phone Emulator is doing a complete OS boot...."
and the emulator, closes. I've found a few threads and posts about this:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/593422/windows-phone-emulator-shuts-down-computer
http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/68634/481915.aspx#481915
Windows phone 7 takes forever to deploy
I understand it's not officially supported but if there is a workaround it would be amazing as I'd prefer to "live" in Mac OSX and just use Windows for Office and Visual Studio. I like this working model.
Any workarounds, any advice?
Windows Phone Emulator is a virtual machine, and you can't run a virtual machine inside another one...
Its not likely that you can do this as inside the emulator is Virtual PC, another virtual machine. It would be quite taxing to run a VM inside a VM.

Minimum Bootcamp partition size for Windows development

I am hoping for some advice in partitioning my new MacBook Pro's 500GB drive. If possible I would like to create two partitions with one (the smaller) being used for Windows development, occasionally. I am not sure which Windows OS I will be installing (probably Windows 7). I will also be installing Visual Studio, and several browsers: IE, Safari, Firefox, etc.
So, the question is how small can I make this partition? Would 100GB be enough?
I am also getting a Mac mini for Windows development but I want to have an on-the-road option just in case.
100GB would be more than enough. I have virtualbox running Windows XP with 15 GB and I have had Visual Studio 2008 installed with comfortable amounts of space left.
Windows 7 though, eats disk space. I'd say for 32-bit 25GB-30GB should be enough. For 64-bit though, I'd recommend at least 40GB.

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