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by codelap
4500 days ago
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From your comment, you said TFS. TFS is the server, which include SqlServer, Sharepoint, an OLAP cube, and the TFS server components. The TFS client extension, (which is not TFS) has been baked in for the last 2 versions. So I assume you're using VS 2010, and that is a much different beast. It has a lot more issues, but it's a much improved IDE. As far as virtualization, why are you working in a virtual environment? What are your machine specs? What is the emulator? I'm genuinely curious, because I haven't encountered any of those issues. |
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Virtualization is kind of a red herring here, because as mentioned before, this happens on an array of workstation-level hardware (quad-core Xeon/i7, 16-32GB configurations, SSD).
The point is that virtualization makes these already-painful existing issues much more pronounced, such that my peers actively want to avoid spinning up a Windows VM for a project. These experiences, whether agreed with or not, were largely responsible for the immediate revulsion my team felt to Windows-based solutions. I can't begin to explain how excited people were at the prospect of not having to use Visual Studio anymore when ServiceStack rolled out at my prior company.
My use case for virtualization is mobile development spanning iOS, Android, Windows 8 and Azure-backed services. The last few companies I've been on-site at outfit their employees with high-end MacBooks, with developers occasionally using virtualized Windows under protest.