Telemetry, Now on Windows 7 and 8

Re:Telemetry, Now on Windows 7 and 8 by SignMeTheHELLUp on Sunday August 30, 2015 @09:49PM (#10145047)

Time to seriously consider moving to Linux.

I just need a way to host a Visual Studio / IIS windows instance inside a Linux window manager... is that even possible?

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Re:Telemetry, Now on Windows 7 and 8 by Nerdfest on Sunday August 30, 2015 @10:48PM (#10145199)

Run Windows in a VM, try it under Wine, or use Microsoft's cloud version of Visual Studio. Not sure about IIS for that one though.

Better yet, stop rewarding a company that treats its users like pests and switch to open languages and servers.

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Re:Telemetry, Now on Windows 7 and 8 by 51Cards on Monday August 31, 2015 @12:28AM (#10145420)

Nice thought but not practical if he's developing for clients on those platforms.

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Re:Telemetry, Now on Windows 7 and 8 by hhandoko on Monday August 31, 2015 @04:32PM (#10148922)

If you need IIS, I doubt that you can get away without virtualisation.

The easiest path is to use something like VMWare Workstation and run Windows as a VM. You can pin Visual Studio to the sidebar, and click to run it like it was made-for-Linux app (i.e. Unity mode).

If you just need IIS (and can use MonoDevelop / Xamarin Studio) as an IDE (or just VS Code for newer stuff), then you can host IIS in a Windows Server Core in a virtual machine (less hardware requirements compared to the first option).

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Re:Telemetry, Now on Windows 7 and 8 by malbs on Sunday August 30, 2015 @11:33PM (#10145305)

If it's a .net app can you just host it under mono?

Do you really need to use Visual Studio? If it's C#/ASP.Net VSCode might be a possible replacement?

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