Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Visual Studio, ho!

Here are the steps I took to get Visual Studio working on my Mac (a puny MacBook Air to be specific):
  1. Download the ISO image for Visual Studio license through UIC's WebStore.
  2. Copy the Visual Studio license in a safe place.
  3. Download the ISO for Windows Server 2012 R2.
  4. Save its keys to a safe place.
  5. Download and install VirtualBox for OS X hosts.
  6. Launch Virtual Box.
  7. Click the New button to create a new virtual host.
  8. Enter a name and select "Windows 2012" as the version for the host. Configure at least 2GB of RAM.
  9. Click Create and select your Windows Server ISO file as the File location.
  10. Click Create.
  11. Run the new virtual host. You will be asked to install Windows.
  12. Click Devices --> Insert Guest Additions CD image.
  13. Run VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe from the CD image.
  14. Click Devices --> Shared Folders --> Shared Folder Settings and share the folders you stored the Visual Studio ISO and our Git repo.
  15. Reboot your virtual host.
  16. On the virtual host, install MagicISO.
  17. Use MagicISO to open the VisualStudio ISO and install VisualStudio from it.
  18. Open the .dsp files from our repo in VisualStudio.
  19. Figure out why none of them will build.

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