How is your Mac set up for Windows development?

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Published on 2010-05-29T17:26:21Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 17:52 UTC
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Hi Guys,

I'm looking at buying a MacBook Pro to replace my tiring laptop. My day to day job is as a .NET web developer so I am looking to use VMware Fusion to run VS and SQL server etc.

As I've not run my dev environment in a VM before, I would like to know how others are setup. What apps to you have installed? In which environment? Where do you store your files? Within each environment, or some shared drive? Are there any gotchas? Or essentials I should know.

Many thanks

Matt

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