Visual Studio

What works

Everything so far as I have tested. Debugging works, building works, controls work, everything.

What does not

Installing does not work out of the box - you need to install the .NET 2.0 framework first using 

winetricks dotnet20

otherwise the installer will crash.

Not exactly "doesn't work", but there's a slight graphics glitch (which only affects VB, not your program) in which icons which should be transparent in the "toolbox" have a black background

Workarounds

What was not tested

Any advanced coding, One-Click deployment

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Other than, install .NET 2.0 first, none.

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

Prerequisite installation by using 'winetricks' script

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

Optionally install core fonts:

As of 2009/04/01 Microsoft has removed the public links to 2005 Express Editions downloads in favour of 2008 Versions. Fortunately the direct download links to full (offline) install images still work:

Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition (449.848 KiB)­

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Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition (445.282 KiB)

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Visual C# 2005 Express Edition (445.282 KiB)

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Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition (474.686 KiB)

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Visual J# 2005 Express Edition (448.702 KiB)

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­This is bug 12659. The following messages in console are an indication o­f this problem:

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 10522. Close the "Start page" to work around this problem.

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

­If you run some command line tools and get an error message like this:

You need to add­­ the following path to your environment:

Use registry editor to add the path to "PATH" key value:

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.