Plus, your local PC can be running any OS (Windows 10, macOS, Linux, or even iOS!) VM’s are a simple extension to the local constraints of your local PC.
You can add more CPU power, more memory, more storage space. By using Virtual Machines as your development machines and environments it allows you to scale your local PC much further than it’s local hardware could ever scale. But using a VM as a development machine is pretty much just that. It can sound a little mysterious to develop for the cloud, in the cloud. This article helps you navigate the benefits as well as the process of utilizing Microsoft Azure to host multiple development machines running Visual Studio 2017 in the cloud.Ī newer version of this article exists for setting up a Visual Studio 2019 Development VM in Microsoft Azure.
This can be an extremely valuable tool for any software developer especially when you might need multiple development environment configurations on a regular basis. You can now easily, spin up a Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure, use it for what ever you need, then shut it down or delete it when it’s no longer needed. With the cloud, things have become even easier. With technologies like Windows Hyper-V and VMWare things became less invasive by allowing you to develop software inside of a Virtual Machine (VM).
#INSTALLING VISUAL STUDIO ON A MAC USING VMWARE INSTALL#
In the past the only option for writing code and building software using Visual Studio was to install it on your local machine.