On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:52 PM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/10/10 1:41 AM, Business Kid wrote: >> >> AFAIK, it does for some programs. The recommended procedure is >> >> winetricks vcrun2008 >> > I think the OP was trying to install the full Visual Studio 2008 package to > build programs with. I don't know if this will work in Wine or not and > there is no Applications Database entry for this product. The OP is welcome > to try and do so and report back what does/does not work. > I believe there was once a test for this in winetricks but it did not work so it was pulled. VS2005 works somewhat. There is the express version and enterprise trial. I know that these work for C++ development but I have not tried any .NET stuff since I do only native application development. John -- John M. Drescher