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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