Visual Studio on a Mac [closed]

Question

My job is currently based on Visual Studio (ASP.NET).
Looking for experiences using Visual Studio on a Mac.
Does it work?

Answer 1

I do this a bit, but I find the keyboard on a MBP miserable for VS/R# - the home/end/page-up/page-down differences/omissions are particularly tedious.

Answer 2

I have not tried any of the stuff mentioned above but from what I have read, it seems VMware Fusion seems to be the most preferred option by many. The Unity feature of Fusion seems to give a sense of running your VS2008 on Mac itself.

Answer 3

VS.2008 under XP/Vista/Win7. The tradeoff is whether you want faster compiles or more fan noise. If I need the power, the VM gets to virtualize both cores, then studio becomes much zippier. However, it tends to annoy the fans.

All things considered, it's very slick.

Answer 4

If you have an Intel mac and run windows through boot camp, paralles or vmware etc, yes

Answer 5

Some default replacements for Home/End et al.:

• Start-of-File: Fn-Ctrl-Left
• End-of-File: Fn-Ctrl-Right
• Page-Up: Fn-Up
• Page-Down: Fn-Down
• Start-of-Line: Fn-Left
• End-of-Line: Fn-Right
• Delete: Fn-Delete
• F1: Fn-F1
• ...
• F12: Fn-F12

Answer 6

Virtualization is the only way I know. If you want to do .NET work in a native IDE I suggest MonoDevelop