Memoirs of a Bystander: Visual Studio.NET development on OS X w/ Parallels

A reader writes "There is an interesting blog piece entitled Memoirs of a Bystander: Visual Studio.NET development on OS X w/ Parallels. The piece does a good job talking about development for different environments then the one that you are programming in. " And with the continued rise of more and more heterogeneous environments, this will become more and more common.

Comments

ehum?

[Keruo]

Why virtualize .net development?
Just run monodevelop and do it natively on OS X

I found the article very useful

[MoonFacedAssassin]

I'm going out on a limb here and stating that I like the article and found it very useful and informative. There are plenty of .NET developers in this world and I am one of them. I also love Mac OSX and it is great to see a semi-detailed and informative account of someone who set up the very environment I have been researching as a possible development platform. A large part of the applications the author uses on OSX and Windows is exactly what I would be using in the same setup.

It will be very beneficial to me when I finally get this platform set up to test the memory allocation in the manner the author describes, and assuming I don't take the plunge and get a Mac Pro, 2GB RAM will be the amount of RAM I choose for the Macbook Pro. After reading the article I can now purchase a new Mac and know that I can do everything I'm wanting.

Re:It does to me.

[Brandybuck]

Both IDE's support C++. I'm doing crossplatform development with Qt/C++ on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and Unix. No problemo. I've had a few clients I had to rescue because they believed that Microsoft tripe that .NET was crossplatform.