I am trying to find a solution for installing Visual Studio 2010 (VMWARE) and connecting to it remotely so that both i can use the pc and the receiver can monitor what i am doing.
There seems to be so many different solutions for VMWARE and i am little of which will work.
It would be ideal if it was free of charge, i notice the "VMWARE PLAYER" is - but i think is only to run virtual machines???
If anybody has had any success of running VMWARE with visual studio 2010 i would look to hear your comments or any advice
Thanks
EDIT
TO clarify, i am looking to run visual studio 2010 in VM.
In order to run VS2010 in VM you will need:
VMWare Server 2.0
Licenced operating system
VS2010
Follow those steps:
Install VMWare server on the physical host
Create a new virtual machine
Install operating system on your virtual machine
Install VS2010 + any other software you need for development
Connect your VM to internet so it can be connected to from internet (open necessary firewall ports)
On a side note: why do you want the receiver to have access to your development environment in the first place? Won't it suffice to give him access to your deliverables only? If you are developing a web site - publish it and give him access. For desktop apps give him the link to a site where you can dump your nightly builds...
I agree with Jakub, but you could also use ESXi on a system do the same thing and have for a few trade shows I would do the following
1) VMware ESXi, use 4.01 located at VMware vSPhere Hypervisor ESXi
2) Use Microsoft Windows 2008, you can be granted a 60 day license for testing.
3) Install Microsoft VS2010 (in my case it was Microsoft VS2008, its all our group uses.
The only issues I have found are when installing Visual Studio 2008, the OS detection might cause a few issues. VS2010 should be able to correctly detect the OS you are using.
The other testing bed the developers I support use are based around the same thing, but use Xen for the hypervisor. We have found on long haul networks using tunnels, VMware ESXi's remote console sessions can be crazy and produced odd graphical draws and even latency.
Good luck with Visual Studio 2010. And I hope your teams work out.
Folks,
I need to maintain a C#/.Net desktop application. So, I need to set myself up with Windows(7?) and Visual Studio.
My current development machine is a Macbook Pro and I would like to continue using it. Overall, I am considering the following recipe:
Install VMWare Fusion or Parallels or VirtualBox for running the Windows OS
Buy a version of Windows to develop on
Buy Windows Developer tools
Having been in the open source universe all this time, I am utterly unfamiliar with the options/packages in the Windows world. I could use some help on the following:
Does the recipe above look fine, or do I need to change something?
What is a good VM environment to buy/use? VirtualBox is free, but Parallels/VMWare promise Windows app that blend in with my Mac windows. Could use some help on this topic
Does MSFT sell a package deal which has bare bones Windows 7 and the necessary dev tools, or do I need to buy the OS and dev tools separately?
Since I only need Windows to churn this C# desktop application, What is the OS version and flavor or Visual Studio I should get?
Thanks in advance for any pointers.
-Raj
* Does the recipe above look fine, or do I need to change something?
Looks fine to me, it is what I do too.
* What is a good VM environment to buy/use? VirtualBox is free, but
Parallels/VMWare promise Windows app that blend in with my Mac windows.
Could use some help on this topic
I've used parallels and VMware fusion and I prefer VMware because I can move machines to other VMware hosts relatively easily. They seem to flip-flop when it comes to performance, but I think this week, Parallels is a little faster (of course this might change with the next fusion update, or the next parallels update).
* Does MSFT sell a package deal which has bare bones Windows 7 and the
necessary dev tools, or do I need to buy the OS and dev tools separately?
I think that this depends on what you are doing. If you purchase an MSDN subscription, you get software that you can use for development (including all windows versions). But if you just purchase Visual Studio, then you need to buy the OS too.
* Since I only need Windows to churn this C# desktop application,
What is the OS version and flavor or
Visual Studio I should get?
You should get whichever OS versions you intend to support your application on.
Good luck,
--jed
Doesn't a Mac have Boot Camp? If so, use that.
It looks fine though. You must buy the OS then the Dev tools (There's Visual C# Express for free though). I would get Windows 7 and either the newest Visual Studio (2008, but 2010 is being released on April 12).
I've used both Bootcamp and VMWare Fusion with 15" MacBook Pro for quite a while (2013 and 2018 models). Bootcamp is better in terms of battery life. Though in terms of performance, Windows VM under macOS can be a better dev box due to significant difference in SSD performance - it's way faster in VM rather than in Bootcamp, especially in random reads/writes (which is crucial for project build time).
I just downloaded the VS 2010 Beta1 Pro and I want to setup a vm to try the new devenv.
Which os and which emulator software should I try for the best performaces? (currently I've XP sp3, Win 7 RC, Win 2008).
hmm....Win 7 or 2008. Though I'd say Win 7 as that better reflects Microsoft's latest dev environment....you wouldn't really do dev on 2008....though you could.
Personally I'd dual boot, especially as Win 7 RC is free, and run it natively.
Otherwise I'd definitely make sure you can virtualize with full hardware acceleration.
this bit of software by gibson will help you identify whether your hardware supports full hardware accelaration.
If it does, obviously you'll need a VM solution which can make use of that, such as VMWare or MS HyperV
As the release date for the public beta of SharePoint 2010 is coming closer and closer, I'm wondering how to set up a developer machine for it. I've heard that for developing on SharePoint a 64 bit system is needed and that Microsoft advises to use Windows 7 64 bit and install SharePoint 2010 on it.
I think that won't be an option for me as I only have one computer here at work and I don't like to install SharePoint on the same machine that I use for my normal office work (email stuff, writing concept papers, ...).
Am I right that I only have two other options? Using Server 2008 as a desktop operating system and install SharePoint 2010 on a virtual machine or using Windows 7 64 and use VMWare to host the SharePoitn 2010.
So I'm wondering if there are any other options and which one you chose? What experiences have you already made?
If you decide to install 2010 on your Vista/Windows 7 machine, make sure you have at least 4GB of RAM (I'd personally want at least 6, if not 8), and follow the instructions from MSDN: "Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Server"
Yes, you are right there are only three options:
Install SharePoint onto the OS natively (new for 2010 and aimed at developers)
Install SharePoint into a VM you run on your machine
Get a second machine and install SharePoint on it.
In addition you will need Visual Studio 2010 for the developer experience to be complete.
I would highly recommend trying the install native route as it will provide a great development experience and will run fairly light. Also at worst you can have two batch files, one of which starts and the other stops the services so there will be zero impact except disk.
I am doing some SP2010 development at the moment. I have:
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard with Sharepoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 installed, running on Hyper-V. I just connect to it via Remote Desktop. Works a treat. I do all my dev in the VS2010 instance running on the VM, leaving my physical work computer free for everything else. I back up my work using TFS, so if I mess up the Sharepoint install (somehow), I can just roll back to a previous snapshot.
hope that helps. :D
Sharepoint 2010 development takes a lot of hardware resources. You can't use Hyper-V on Windows 7 but if you have the Enterprise version of the OS, you can build and boot directly from VHD, taking normal advantage of hardware resources. To learn how, you can visit this post: http://rambletech.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/boot-windows-7-directly-from-virtual-hard-disk-image/
HTH.
Curious to know how people set up their personal and/or work development environment, in terms of:
Do you just have all of your developer tools (for example Visual Studio, SSMS, etc.) installed on your main operating system;
Do you use Virtual Machines to have a separate "clean" dev environment that consists only of the OS and one compiler you're working with;
Do you have multiple OS's in a multi-boot system;
Do you remote connect to a separate machine with your developer tools installed on there
It all depends on the type of the job i guess. Here is how my setup is:
The main PC. The one on my desk. Has everything on it.
The secondary machine. Runs Vista.
A bunch of "Clean" VMs for testing. Typically 2 machines of each OS we support.
A build machine. VM with no installed product. Just source code and some compilers.
A dedicated "Server" to host the server app and the DB. [Our product is a client-server thingy]
[On top of that, my primary and sec machines have the server and DB running too.]
EDIT: By "clean" i mean that they only have a freshly installed OS on them, nothing else. These are non-persistent and go back to clean state on shutdown.
I am running what I think is a fairly standard Agile C# development environment. Vista SP1, Visual Studio 2008 with Resharper 4.1, SQL Express 2008, Subversion server, command line svn client and Cruise Enterprise (unbelievable product) with 1 server and 1 agent for continuous integration.
I am running on a Dell XPS core 2 duo 2.4Ghz laptop with 4GB of RAM and 1 external 22" widescreen monitor.
I have tried and tried and persisted with VMWare Workstation (mostly but also Virtual PC) but I again and again resort back after tiring with the performance and annoying delays in Visual Studio. And I have tried every performance trick and tweak in the book available to me. It apparently just needs either more hardware than I have or far more patience.
I have also tried running 64bit Ubuntu with VMWare Worstation server running Vista (vlite'ed) and also windows XP (lite), but I found it just as annoying.
If you have similar specs to what I described then I can simply recommend not going down the VM path, unless it is ABSOLUTELY necessary.
I have a VMWare network replication of the main servers in my environment including SQLservers, Web-Servers, a copy of my dev box, and AD Servers. I also use VS on my dev box for simple things that don't need as much testing.
We use Virtual PC's for our development. As well as a VP for our build environment. The reason for this is so that we can switch between different projects without losing time. (for Support)
At our current client, we have an ESX server with virtual machines running on it. We access the virtual machines through Remote Desktop.
For my style in VS 2008, I use VibrantInk by Rob Conery.
We have Reflector and all Sysinternal tools available on all virtual machines.
I'm planning to have ReSharper on every machine also.
Firefox/Firebug combo is installed on every machine.
Web Developer for IE7 is also installed on every machine.
Cheers!
I really enjoyed using a single VM for each IDE I worked with, but that requires a beefy machine. However, my company has taken recently to the idea that the developers can do "just fine" with sub $500 machines. Thus, my current setup is everything on my only machine.
All of my tools are on my local machine. I generally work within the MVC mindset.
VMWare is set up on my machine, but it's only used on rare occasion for things beyond the control of my machine.
My work is primarily done on a windows machine, with Visual Studio.
I have Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 running on my main machine (Vista :p), and everything I can develop here without cluttering the machine, I do. Feels so much more responsive than in a VM. I have a VM for Linux-based development and several VMs for testing purposes. I never tested VMWare's debugging feature (run the debugger on the host and the debuggee on the guest), though I can imagine that that would be a good reason to have Visual Studio on the host, even if you don't care about responsiveness.
I have a number of IDEs and server products running on my main workstation. I also have a remote access laptop that has all the same critical software on it so I can develop locally (and not depend on Citrix and Remote Desktop to work on code fixes outside the office).
My main work system
Linux x64 dual core
Dual monitor
Redhat based OS
Vim, Kdevelop, Eclipse(with Epic, and Subclipse).
My system is similar(arch, and OS) to our servers, which is what I implement code for. Since I work for a small company with many hats, I tend to have a ssh'd mysql connection open in one window, with a vim screen open on the other side. Throughout the day I use SSH, VIM, SVN, firefox, and e-mail daily.
I put all toolchains and other apps needed to build my code into revision control, and write makefiles for all projects such that the version of the tools from the repository is used, not whatever may be in the $PATH. So when I do a label for a release, it includes everything needed to do the build, and depends on build machine setup as little as possible. All I need to do is sync to revision control, and type 'make'. Unfortunately this does require having cygwin installed on Windows, but personally, I consider a Windows machine just about unusable for development without cygwin, regardless of the prerequisites of the build system.
I have simple makefiles to build projects that include platform-specific .mk files. I don't manually create IDE project files. In a couple cases (Rowley Crossworks for embedded ARM development, Visual Studio for self-hosted windows PC development), I auto-generate project files based on my makefiles, as part of the "make debug" target, and then launch the IDE with the generated project. This makes debugging convenient, without requiring parallel maintenance of a IDE-specific project file in addition to my makefile.
I am about to set up a new development environment for a new department.
Build environment (support both Java development and .Net) will be on to separate VMware machines running on the same physical computer. Both images will use 2008 server.
Developer machines will be desktop computers, most likely qith 6 gig ram, big harddrives, 1 or 2 cpu's with dual or quad core, 24" screens * 2, etc., and with 2008 server installed. This to ensure that the developer code is compiled on the OS. Desktops because I want the developers to be able to use VMware to test, etc., without spending to much time complaining about lack of performance with 2 VMwares running at the same time :)
I am trying to figure out the build environment now. Considering Team City, ++. Difficult to find the right one when you want to support multi-platform environment without to much fuss :)
Every developper setup includes a MacBookPro 17" with a 22" lcd screen.
Eclipse is our IDE, and we use VMWare to host our developpement database (oracle) under winXP.
Obviously a lot of your answers are going to depend heavily on what kind of development each person does. Maybe we should be categorizing these? :)
Web Development
I use a VM to run a Linux guest with a development webserver. I use Notepad++ on my host for editing (recent convert from jEdit), and with drive mapping in the VM software (Sun's VirtualBox), my dev webserver guest machine has no problem serving up the ever-changing source files. I also use the Windows XP IE6 VPC image in another VM to test the page in IE6. I use this setup even if I'm not developing a complicated web-app and am simply working on a static HTML page; there are still some quirky differences in behavior between a locally opened file and a served webpage in a number of browsers that make this worthwhile.