Visual Studio

What works

Loading pre-existing .sln (solution) files 

Editing etc.

Debug configuration build

Release configuration build 

What does not

Nothing that I have tried didn't work, but I only tested the Visual C# part of the environment, though there is reason to believe it will work with the other languages; in addition, I only tried out a couple of small test programs from the MS website before building one very large project which built first time and produced functioning executables. This result is however a step forward from previous test reports which specify no functionality at all for building and running.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Any of the more advanced features of the IDE.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Ok, once I got it installed, it seemed to work without any additional Wine-specific hitches. One thing you need to be aware of is that the compatibility between the project files saved from different versions of VS is a known issue. If you hit this problem a possible simple workaround for a .sln file saved with a higher version of VS is to edit the top two lines of the file with a text editor in order to "fake" a lower version. This worked for me and has been reported elsewhere. I used the same winetricks and bash script listed on the previous submission for Visual Studio 2010 (10.0) Express Edition as prerequisites for the install. The link for the .iso file for VS2010 Express is in the Howtos at the bottom of that submission. The first time I tried to install the iso I got an error about ntlm_auth. This was because I hadn't installed samba, which fixed the problem (I suspect the equivalent for Linux boxes is the winbind problem discussed in that howto). Clearly there are no guarantees that your code will build or run, but just to give an ideal of scale, the project I built & ran successfully was the Open Rails train simulator (see the appdb entry on this site under Games & Simulators) which is a pretty sizeable 23-subproject source code distribution with ~200k lines of C-sharp. So it's Gold for me, but only for the C# builds, I haven't tested any other language.

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.

To work around some bugs you additionally need:

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:

That's bug 34943 - use following recipe to work around.

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:

If you encounter the following message/failure on startup:

This is bug 32323.

You are missing 'winetricks corefonts' recipe.

Try to enable subpixel font smoothing using 'winetricks':

Actually it's not a freeze but a popup/dialog hidden behind the splash screen.

You press "ENTER" (while keeping the splash in focus) to continue.

Congratulations, you ignored the HOWTO. Make sure you've installed .NET Framework 2.0 via winetricks.

Congratulations, you ignored the HOWTO. Make sure you've installed .NET Framework 2.0 via winetricks.