Mac Vmware Setup Environment For Asp.net
@chris: I've heard good things about Parallels - not sure that I really feel like testing it out though. @vito: Visual Studio is a really deep and complete development environment. What's nice is that you can build web applications or Windows based applications. It's all in there. Unfortunately you cannot create Mac based applications. It can also be a bit overwhelming if you are new to applications development. Microsoft has a really good site for figuring out of this is something you want to invest your time in: I could write several very long pages on what would be a good development environment to learn on. Best free 3d home design software.
If you want to try it more from a hobby standpoint, not a career choice, you should also look at. You can actually create desktop applications that target Windows, Mac and Linux. It's really impressive.
Good luck my friend! @mikez101: Telerik is fantastic for building up commercial grade UIs. If you are doing internal IT type development where the application is used by internal people inside a company the basic grids and controls MS provides will probably be adequate. But if you want easy ways to create modal dialogs, advanced grids that render like a desktop application or highly skin-able controls like Calendar pick lists, Telerik is amazing. I recommend that you download their trial and play with it a bit. I highly recommend these guys.
To run Visual Studio, you need to run Windows. There are 3 ways to run Windows on a Mac: Dual boot; Virtualization (VMWare, Parallels) Emulation (WINE). I have setup dotnet SDK VERSION 1.1 AND MSSQL, VISUAL STUDIO FOR IT THIS IS ENVIRONMENT SETUP THING SO RATHER THAN FOCUSING ON CODE, IW ILL TELL WHAT I HAVE SETUP 1, I HAVE INSTALLED VISUAL STUDIO FOR MAC, SDK MANAGER 1.1, NOW HAVE TO RUN sln file with aspx support.
I do almost all internal intranet stuff. I took a quick glance at there site before my last post. It looked like it was just a nicer ui to me. We do have multiple public sites and our clients are able to login and see all thier information again in just your normal GridViews, DataGrids and so forth. Really the only thing that I don't like is the ASP Menu. I did like some of there demos the GridView control is very nice from telerik.
I have not forced myself to do much with XCode yet. The only reason I would probably even consider it is to design some iPhone apps but I am going to wait and see just how that plays out before I go invest my time into something that apple will not let me put on an iPhone. Thanks for the review. Those times are pretty impressive.
Starting up my Windows XP VM tends to slow things down for me quite a bit. But I think that is because I 'only' have 2GB and tend to have tons of programs open. I just bought a 2GB module to upgrade it to 3GB. I couldn't believe how cheap memory is these days.