Tom, because I'm just a one-man-band I prefer to have the dev environment on my real machine, otherwise sharing a standard VM would be worth considering. I was forced to go back to VS2012 for a few months so I set it up in a VM and it worked perfectly, but you have to fiddle with buttons to make it go over dual monitors, then it would hide stuff on the real machine and I got sick of going back back-and-forth. So mainly for a pleasant desktop experience I prefer to develop in the real machine. I still have that VM in case I need it, and I have another VM with a duplicated VS2013 environment so I can perform "cold checkouts" and coax everything to build (which is usually quite a struggle!).
I have other "test" VMs running Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 and Ubuntu Linux. I even have one running Windows 95, but it was just an experiment to see if it was possible. The invention of the VM was a fabulous leap into the future *Greg K* On 12 March 2015 at 15:50, Tom P <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > How do the experienced devs here setup their personal laptops/desktops for > development? Do you just install VS directly on the machine and not worry > about it or use "virtual machines" (just learning these) to isolate the dev > stuff? Any good reasons for the latter or simply do it as a "just in case"? > > -- > Thanks > Tom >
