FAQ • • • • • • • • • System Requirements • To install Visual Studio on your Mac you need, minimumally: • an Intel Mac • 1 GB of Memory • 25 GB of free hard drive space • You can check the first two by clicking on the Apple icon on the top left and opening up 'About this Mac'. • Downloads • Download VirtualBox for yor Mac • This downloads the file VirtualBox-3.2.8-64453-OSX.dmg. • Open this file and follow the installation instructions. Create a Virtual Machine • Start VirtualBox • Create a new virtual machine by pressing the blue star labeled New • Press continue on the dialog box. • Name your machine: Win7-CS150 • Operating System: Microsoft Windows • Version: Windows 7 • Press continue on the dialog box.

• In the Memory dialog, give your machine 1024 MB of RAM. You can type in the box on the right. • Press continue on the dialog box. • In the Virtual Hard Disk screen accept the defaults (Boot Hard Disk, Create new hard disk) and press continue. • In the Welcome to the Create New Virtual Disk Wizard press continue.

• Select a Fixed-Size storage in the Hard Disk Storage Type and press continue. • Specify a 25 GB hard drive in the Virtual Disk Location and Size dialog.

The Visual Studio for Windows Releases have always been the highlight of the year and just keeps getting better and better, even when you think all that can be done has been done. However, I do think feel Visual Studio for Mac has been left behind as far as becoming a world class IDE like Visual Studio for Windows.

You can type in the box on the right. Press continue. • In the Summary dialog, press Done. Wait while it processes. This may take up to 30 minutes, depending on the speed of your machine. • Once this finishes, press Done. Install Windows • You should now see Win7-CS150 listed on the left side on the VirtualBox Window.

Select that virtual machine. • Put the Windows 7 Disk in the CD/DVD Drive • Click Storage on the right panel. • Select the Empty CD/DVD • In the right panel, choose Host Drive in the CD/DVD Device drop down box. And press OK. • With Win7-CS150 highlighed, press the green Start arrow at the top of the window.

• This should start the Windows 7 Installer. The Installer will ask you various questions and take up to 2 hours to install Windows. • Once Windows completes the installation eject the Windows install disk. • While Windows is not running, Click Storage, the CD/DVD Icon, and set the CD/DVD Device to Empty. • The DVD may show up on the Mac desktop. If it does, drag it to the Trash to eject the DVD. Install Visual Studio • Put in the Visual Studio Disk • While Windows is not running, Click Storage, the CD/DVD Icon, and set the CD/DVD Device to Host Drive. Fuse for mac os/ ntfs-3g.