Visual Studio 2010 with Parallels
Posted on November 24th, 2009
So for those who run Windows 7 natively this isn’t really an issue. For those of us who want to run on a Mac and have been frustrated with the failure of Fusion 3, go give Parallels Desktop 5 a try.
I made the mistake of assuming vmware would do a good job with Fusion 3 but that turned out to be a waste of money and time. It makes Windows 7 virtual machines terribly slow with poor graphics. If you’re using any heavy WPF applications like VS 2010 this was brutal. Parallels is the complete opposite with great graphics and slick performance even for WPF applications.
If you aren’t using VS 2010 (beta 2 as of writing) yet, is that rock a little heavy? ;-)
Tags: .NET, fusion, parallels, vs2010
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2 Responses to “Visual Studio 2010 with Parallels”
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Justin Says:
March 1st, 2010 at 1:46 pmI too had the same assumption and have been happily using Fusion 3 until I noticed the huge performance hit while using WPF applications (mainly VS2010).
I cringed when thinking about Parallels (simply because of early experiences with it early on, versions prior to 4). But it has come a long way and seems much faster than Fusion. VS2010 loads much much faster and my build times seem to be a little quicker as well.
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typemismatch Says:
March 1st, 2010 at 2:02 pmCool – since I wrote that post I couldn’t be happier with PD5, I already own both Fusion 3 and PD5 and can still say the vmware have not fixed their problems.