Visual Studio

What works

Building simple example projects

What does not

Complex projects, some project wizards fail

Workarounds

What was not tested

n/a

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Follow appdb entry howto (.net 3.5 prerequisite needed). Message "It will complain twice: "The Application Data folder for... could not be created" -> create the folder manually: $ mkdir -p "$(winepath "C:\Users\\$USER\\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0")"

Make sure you operate on a clean 32-bit WINEPREFIX (~/.wine)!

Prerequisite installation by using 'winetricks' script

Winetricks will take care of all needed installation prerequisites and work around some problems. To install it, follow the instructions in the link.

If you intend to install VS 2008 SP1 you need .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Winbind component

Make sure you installed 'winbind' component with your distribution package manager.

This is needed for the -Zi option of the compiler, and other mechanisms that handle 'PDB' (Program Data Base) files.

Debian:

Fedora:

Never run wine as root (su, sudo)! Wine doesn't require to be run as root!

You will screw your WINEPREFIX and possibly other things up. If you have run Wine as root you need to:

and then run winecfg to set Wine folder structure back up. If you used winetricks script as root you might also need to:

Again: Just run wine as regular user and all should be fine.

This is Bug 9158. Only happens with online-installer version (not retail from .ISO image). Use the following workaround in console:

This is Bug 21259. 

Workaround: start 'mspdbsrv.exe' manually before visual C++, with an 'infinite' timeout.

You can create a shell script that starts both mspdbsrv.exe and VCEXpress.exe, if mspdbsrv.exe is already running, it will be ignored the second time it is invoked.