Does Wine support Visual Basic 2005/2008

[asdfoo]

It's been 7 years since VS2002 and that doesn't even work properly.

You're welcome to fix it.

[jflaker]

Nope,
Install VirtualBox and setup Windows XP with about 7-12GB of disk space
Share a folder under VirtualBox to save your stuff to your $HOME/SomeDir

Works great for me for the last year or so......

[sonicb00m]

You're welcome to fix it.

I don't know what your problem is over this but VS doesn't work in Wine and is unlikely to. The best solution right now for anyone seeking to be productive in VS within a Linux is environment is to install Virtual Box or another virtual machine and run it from inside an XP installation or something similar. It's the only way right now.

I've got very little interest in the Wine project as it is, never mind spending my time trying to get a complex program like visual studio working. Something which I lack any competence to try in the first place.

Your "give it a year statement" is not only unproductive it's total conjecture. It insinuates that all the person has to do to get it working is sit on his **** for a bit and hope for the best because, in your opinion, the applications will just work "in time".

[hikaricore]

Your "give it a year statement" is not only unproductive it's total conjecture. It insinuates that all the person has to do to get it working is sit on his **** for a bit and hope for the best because, in your opinion, the applications will just work "in time".

Actually many programs run under WINE within or less than a year after release.
This is a common trend. Perhaps there's just so little interest in fixing bugs relating to VB when Linux has so many other native options for scripting and programing.

[TimothyLuke]

If all you are looking at doing is working through your class examples on your linux box, You might be able to get away with MONO and Eclipse. It really depends a lot on the elements of .NET that you are using with VB200x and if they are part of the MONO libraries. If nothing else you will learn a lot about VB, .NET, Linux and MONO attempting this.

[directhex]

If all you are looking at doing is working through your class examples on your linux box, You might be able to get away with MONO and Eclipse. It really depends a lot on the elements of .NET that you are using with VB200x and if they are part of the MONO libraries. If nothing else you will learn a lot about VB, .NET, Linux and MONO attempting this.

Why Eclipse? Its Mono support is dreadful at best.

"mono-vbnc" is the package with a VB.NET compiler in it though, and "monodevelop" for an IDE

[x001]

I use MonoDevelop for C#. I saw an option for VB.NET as well.