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Why not a VM hosted in Azure? Microsoft publishes VMs into the Azure marketplace with Visual Studio pre-installed. Scott Hanselman has an older blog post [0]
by coredog64 11y ago
Why not a VM hosted in Azure? Microsoft publishes VMs into the Azure marketplace with Visual Studio pre-installed.
Scott Hanselman has an older blog post [0] that describes how he does it with a Surface 2. With an official Remote Desktop client for Macs, it should be just as easy. As a bonus, you can run it on an A11 Standard (16 cores & 112 GB of memory), although I wouldn't want to leave it up for a month ($1200).
[0] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/UsingASurface2RTARMToGetActualWorkDoneRemoteDesktopVisualStudioAzure.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/UsingASurface2RTARMToGetActual...
- __jal 11y agoIf you're the sort of person for whom cloud hosting works, that will work for you. I personally like things that run (a) when the net is off and (b) if the vendor decides they don't like me, but I accept that I'm a dinosaur. But the main reason for wanting things local, for me, is that the sole reason I have a Windows VM is to plug various devices into it for which there's no software for OS X or Linux. Yes, there are hacky methods for some USB use cases, but I don't think having the logic controlling my laser cutter executing 12 hops away is going to go so well.