I would suggest using either Visual Basic Express 2015, or the same for 2017, if it exists, it's simpler and less bloated.
There may be way to stop Windows trying to check for updates every time, or you could just wait for the first update check to finish and then it should, in theory, be quicker each time until the next BIG update comes along. Cheers Peter, (aka Pugwash, not Merchant). On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 00:11, Patrick Wigmore <pfwigm...@gmx.com> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > > ...my son has been told he needs to download Visual Studio 2017 onto > > a Windows PC... > > > Are there any options other than spending several hundred pounds on > > a new PC to run this bloatware for compiling programs. > > MonoDevelop is probably the closest equivalent to Visual Studio on > Linux, supporting most of the same languages and libraries (or drop in > replacements; i.e. Mono instead of .NET). > > For console programs or those using third party libraries for graphics > (e.g. MonoGame) it's more or less equivalent. However, last I looked, > the GUI builder in MonoDevelop only supports GTK GUIs, unlike Visual > Studio. So, for GUI programs, you probably want to stick to one IDE or > the other. > > I've run Visual Studio on Windows 7 in VirtualBox, and it is usable > with 4GB RAM and VT-x hardware acceleration. It is one of the slower > applications though. It takes ages to load on real hardware too, but > once it's going it feels a bit more responsive. > > And of course if you're not booting Windows every day, the first thing > it's going to do when you boot up your virtual machine is run Windows > Update in the background and bog itself down for several minutes doing > whatever it is that Windows Update does that takes so much time and > effort. > > Patrick. > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-10-02 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING > Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR -- Cheers Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-10-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
