[tosh]

I wonder if Microsoft is working on a cross-platform version of Visual Studio. Anyone has any experience running it on OS X using Parallels or similar?

Or is Visual Studio Code the philosophical successor to Visual Studio? Anyone familiar enough with Microsoft to elaborate?

[Stratoscope]

Visual Studio works fine in a VM. I've used it in VMware and Parallels. I like the overall integration better in Parallels, but either one will do.

Visual Studio Code is a completely different product that happens to (confusingly!) share the same name.

[0xFFC]

Exactly visual studio code and visual studio they have almost same name , nothing else , visual studio code is on top of web technology (as far as I know) , something like Bracket , Atom. But Visual Studio have completely different software stack/

[tosh]

I understand that they are different and yet share some of the same tools that drive the analysis and autocompletion (?).

I'd just like to understand how they compare from a product strategy point of view going forward in case anyone knows.

[0xFFC]

I have had this question in mind too,but I think this not going anywhere.because for example visual studio extension development is in C#( am I right?).So using managed code base in something related to web , I think is almost impossible.

[titanix2]

I use Visual Studio (2010 & 2013) in VirtualBox on a customized MacBook Pro (with SSD) for developing Windows Phone applications as a hobby. It runs very well and fast and it is usable on a daily basis. On an hard disk drive it was a bit too slow for being confortable.

But there are also some annoying VM freezings related to the USB port, which sometimes forces me to force quite the VM with the task manager because even VirtualBox can't terminate the instance.