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FAQ
- Connect to Turing
- Enhance Windows Performance
System Requirements
- To install Visual Studio on your Mac you need, minimumally:
- an Intel Mac
- 1 GB of Memory
- 25 GB of free hard drive space
- You can check the first two by clicking on the Apple icon on the top left and opening up 'About this Mac'.
Downloads
- Download VirtualBox for yor Mac here
- This downloads the file VirtualBox-3.2.8-64453-OSX.dmg.
- Open this file and follow the installation instructions.
Create a Virtual Machine
- Start VirtualBox
- Create a new virtual machine by pressing the blue star labeled New
- Press continue on the dialog box.
- Name your machine: Win7-CS150
- Operating System: Microsoft Windows
- Version: Windows 7
- Press continue on the dialog box.
- In the Memory dialog, give your machine 1024 MB of RAM. You can type in the box on the right.
- Press continue on the dialog box.
- In the Virtual Hard Disk screen accept the defaults (Boot Hard Disk, Create new hard disk) and press continue.
- In the Welcome to the Create New Virtual Disk Wizard press continue.
- Select a Fixed-Size storage in the Hard Disk Storage Type and press continue.
- Specify a 25 GB hard drive in the Virtual Disk Location andSize dialog. You can type in the box on the right. Press continue.
- In the Summary dialog, press Done. Wait while it processes.This may take up to 30 minutes, depending on the speed of your machine.
- Once this finishes, press Done.
Install Windows
- You should now see Win7-CS150 listed on the left side on the
VirtualBox Window. Select that virtual machine. - Put the Windows 7 Disk in the CD/DVD Drive
- Click Storage on the right panel.
- Select the Empty CD/DVD
- In the right panel, choose Host Drive in the CD/DVD Device drop down box. and press OK.
- With Win7-CS150 highlighed, press the green Start arrow at the top of
the window. - This should start the Windows 7 Installer. TheInstaller will ask you various questions and take up to 2 hours toinstall Windows.
- Once Windows completes the installation eject the Windows install disk.
- While Windows is not running, Click Storage, the CD/DVD Icon, and set the CD/DVD Device to Empty.
- The DVD may show up on the Mac desktop. If it does, drag it to the Trash to eject the DVD.
Install Visual Studio
- Put in the Visual Studio Disk
- While Windows is not running, Click Storage, the CD/DVD Icon, and set the CD/DVD Device to Host Drive.
- Start Windows again.
- The Visual Studio DVD should show up in Windows. If not,inside of Windows open My Computer, and click on the CD/DVDDrive. This should start the Visual Studio installer.
- The install may take up to an hour. Once the installfinishes, eject the DVD as described above and Visual Studio shouldwork.
- Bring both disks back to the instructor and you'll be given a Windows Key to activate Windows.
Activate Windows
- Start Windows.
- Open My Computer
- Start Menu | Computer
- Choose System Properties from the menu bar.
- Click on the Active Windows Now link towards the bottom of the dialog box.
- Provide the license key given to you by the CS Department. You need to be connected to the network for this to work.
Connect to Turing
- Open My Computer
- Start Menu | Computer
- Choose Map network drive from the menu bar.
- Choose a drive letter (any letter)
- Folder: turing.cs.pacificu.eduStudents
- Check Connect using different credentials
- Press Finish
- Supply your PUNetID for your user name and your Turing password.
- The Turing drive should show up on the bottom of the computer dialog under Network Locations.
Update Windows
- Open My Computer
- Start Menu | Computer
- Choose System Properties from the menu bar.
- Select Windows Update in the lower left corner
- Select any important or optional updates to install
- Install Updates
Enhance Windows Performance
- Open My Computer
- Start Menu | Computer
- Choose System Properties from the menu bar.
- Select Performance Information and Tools in the lower left corner
- Select Adjust visual effects on the left menu
- Choose Adjust for best performance
- Apply
- Ok
There are generally 3 ways to get visual studio on Macbook Pro:
- Install windows via Bootcamp,
- Run windows via a virtual machine,
- Install windows via Bootcamp then run the image as a VM with parallel.
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In this article I am focusing on the first option to dedicate maximum CPU and ram for visual studio, MSSQL and IIS.
Check if your Macbook Pro is supported
Anything 2013 early 15” Retina and later should support 10. If you’re not sure, check Apple’s list at https://support.apple.com/en-sg/HT204990#models
Getting windows 10 installer image
For those on Bizspark, you can download the enterprise edition iso at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads
(To reach here from Bizspark website after logging in, click on the small “get tools” link on the top right, and again “MSDN Subscription” in the same area on the new page.)
If you’re wondering why some versions have a “N” suffix, those are versions without media technologies (media player, codecs, etc.) bundled.
Run Bootcamp assistant
Allocating space for windows partition
The windows 10 OS itself took up about 20GB. Office will take up another 1.5~2GB. Visual studio installer alone takes up 6GB, and take up some 15-20GB installed.
If you are not planning on doing anything other than development work in Visual Studio, recommend at least 50~60GB of space for the new partition.
Windows Support Software
If you get the error “The Windows Support Software Could Not Be Saved To The Selected Drive”, try only checking the first option and perform 2nd and 3rd later. In my case, I proceeded with the install without downloading the support drivers first, and only came back to MacOS for it after the first boot into windows.
Installing Windows
If your windows installer complaints that “We couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see setup log files”, try resetting your NVRAM:
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Reboot your Mac, hold down Control, Option, R and P on the keyboard right after the chime. Keep holding until the Mac reboots and you hear the chime again. After that complete the BCA procedure as normal.
(Referenced from last page of https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7020233?start=45&tstart=0)
Install boot camp support software on windows
Go to your USB drive and look for a bootcamp folder or similar. You should see a setup.exe inside. Run it.
If you get a “The version of Boot Camp is not intended for this computer model”, you may have manually downloaded a version via apple’s website. Those are meant for widows 7 and earlier, so reboot into MacOS and use the boot camp assistant to download the right version.
Stuck at Realtek?
If your set up stucks on “Realtek Audio”, try these to work around:
- Keep the installer running (do not force quit)
- go to your bootcamp folder, manually install the realtek driver, at the end of the install, do not restart
- after manually setting up realtek, open Task Manager, and kill the “RealtekSetup” process
- bootcamp will now skip the Realtek step and proceed.
(Referenced from https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6567790?tstart=0 )
In Windows land
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Configuring keyboard and trackpad
Access the boot camp control panel from the status area (right most of the task bar), it’s the grey diamond icon. Click on it once then select “Boot Camp Control Panel”
Select the options you need in the “Keyboard” and “Trackpad” tabs in the new window.
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Installing Visual Studio
To mount the iso, select the iso file in explorer, and a new menu “Disc Image Tools” should appear. Clicking on it should give you 2 options “Mount” or “Burn”. Select “Mount” and run the set up application at the root of the disc (mine was “vs_enterprise.exe”).
Select custom installation so you can select the components you need. For me I enabled “SQL Server Data Tools” and some Git tools under “Common Tools”. If you are also doing frontend development, you can install node.js here too.
Enable any mobile-related components and the installation size jumps to 30+ GB as it auto-selects windows SDK and Android Native Development Kit (taking up about 5GB each) among others.
Install IIS
Open the “Programme and features” section of control panel and stay tuned for Part 2!