"doh123" <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > o1sowise wrote: > > My son is taking some programming courses in school and it would > > be very helpful if he could run Visual Studio on his Mac. I own > > older VB5 and Visual Studio 6 (from my old PC days). > > > > ... > > > > Can someone please guide me (e.g. show me all the steps I need > > to follow to install Wine) so that I can then install VB5 and > > VS6? > > > > He's not going to do intense programming, just syntax check his > > code and run simple stuff. > > I've tried running some MS IDE (like those you want to install), > and they just do not run well or at all under Wine. You are much > better off getting something like VirtualBox (which is free) and > installing a real copy of Windows inside it... Unless he is learning Windows programming specifically, he might well be better off using a native Mac development setup instead of trying to learn generic programming techniques on (proprietary) Windows.
