will MS products work on Ubuntu?

[Dupont666]

have a copy of MS Visual Studio and a mac, got parallels installed and now looking for an alternate OS to get Visual studio working and was wondering if it would work with ubuntu so i dont need to shell out more money to the MS monopoly.

So will it?

Yes i know this should go into Computers and Stuff, but there is more people on here.

Cheers.

[sjg]

No.

[Dupont666]

bugger.... need to go shell out then.

[XJSJohn]

should work with WINE emulator.

[Dupont666]

XJSJohn said:

should work with WINE emulator.

the what?

[XJSJohn]

Perhaps not, seems that VS is particularly badly made

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=897849

SOme alternatives here.

WINE Is an emulator built into most linux distribs that fakes a Micro$oft environment so that you can run windows apps. The link above provides referance to a WINE database of apps that do run.

[Dupont666]

nope its visual studio 2008 and doesnt work apparantley

[Einion Yrth]

XJSJohn said:

WINE Is an emulator built into most linux distribs that fakes a Micro$oft environment so that you can run windows apps.

Of course, since WINE stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator, the above is debatable.

[XJSJohn]

Einion Yrth said:

XJSJohn said:

WINE Is an emulator built into most linux distribs that fakes a Micro$oft environment so that you can run windows apps.

Of course, since WINE stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator, the above is debatable.

whats in a name ...

[sunbeam_alpine]

I only get about 50% of windows programs running under WINE. Gave up on Visual Studio 6 - it did not want to work.

[davemac250]

And people moan about txt spk?

[dilbert]

I'm struggling to figure yout why you would want to run MSVS on Ubuntu. If you have VS6.0, then you might have more joy with Wine, but wine hasn't really moved on for at least 3 years when I looked six months ago. I think the biggest barrier is OLE/COM, which VS has always used. With more modern versions of VS, you also have .NET to worry about in the compatibility stakes.

But why..... Why produce a binary you can't test? You're better off with Eclipse on Ubuntu.

Edited by dilbert on Wednesday 17th December 09:20

[dern]

Dupont666 said:

have a copy of MS Visual Studio and a mac, got parallels installed and now looking for an alternate OS to get Visual studio working and was wondering if it would work with ubuntu so i dont need to shell out more money to the MS monopoly.

Write Java code then.

[Tuna]

Why on earth would you want to write Microsoft software, using Visual Studio, on a non Microsoft machine? That's just... weird.

To be honest, if you didn't know the answer to your own question, you're probably not cut out to get very far with Visual Studio.

[Dupont666]

Always had Eclipse for my JAVA programming and VS 2005 for C Sharp (damn no hash key), but my computers have always been work ones and money no object, im not the greatest fan of MS and dont like paying loads of money out for something im going to only use with one program, hence trying to see if VS 2008 will work with anything else before going out and buying Windows XP.

Thats the only reason.

[annodomini2]

Dupont666 said:

Always had Eclipse for my JAVA programming and VS 2005 for C Sharp (damn no hash key), but my computers have always been work ones and money no object, im not the greatest fan of MS and dont like paying loads of money out for something im going to only use with one program, hence trying to see if VS 2008 will work with anything else before going out and buying Windows XP.

Thats the only reason.

If you want C# on Ubuntu use monodevelop

[otolith]

If you want to write cross-platform .NET code, see the mono project and MonoDevelop for an IDE.

edit: beaten to it!

Edited by otolith on Wednesday 17th December 10:55

[Timsta]

I do programming for Windows on my Ubuntu box. You just need a VM. I use Virtualbox: http://www.virtualbox.org/

Then install windows in it, then your Development SW on top. The nice thing with Virtualbox is that it can run in "seamless mode" which means you get Windows apps running alongside your Ubuntu apps, and can copy/paste between them seamlessly.

Here's a VM running seamlessly on Ubuntu.


HTH
Tim

[jamieboy]

Timsta said:

I do programming for Windows on my Ubuntu box. You just need a VM. I use Virtualbox: http://www.virtualbox.org/

Hmm - so we've got a Mac running OSX, which is running Ubuntu under Parallels, which in turn is running Windows in a VM.

That has to be the most elegant solution, hasn't it?



Not having a go at you at all, Timsta, just that I think we're in danger of solving the wrong problem

[dern]

jamieboy said:

Not having a go at you at all, Timsta, just that I think we're in danger of solving the wrong problem

...you mean the one where the OP is happy to make money writing code for an OS but unhappy if the original developer of the OS does by writing it in the first place?