Visual basic on Ubuntu

[mrapoc]

I want to use my laptop as a 100% Ubuntu (no dual boot). I d

only have one license for Eset so i cant really defend it (AVG etc. is just meh) and now my sister has started using it - its even more succeptible to crap like that.

All i use my laptop for is browsing, random games on the train, typing up crap and programming. What would be the best bet for visual basic/express on my laptop? Wine?

 

[FragTek]

Yes for WINE. Kickass program that works with damn near everything. Hell if I can make CSS run natively in OS X with it I'm sure you can get VB to work in Linux with it.

 

[equk]

I personally wouldn't code using wine.

Quite a few reasons really, the main one being stability and the posibility of data corruption when testing code.

Wine isn't a enclosed emulation/virtualization of windows. It is just a compatibility layer which runs in conjunction with the linux OS. So I would think that things like memory leaks etc could possibly be pretty hazerdous to your linux system and most importantly your data.

Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available

I sometimes code using Parallels in OS X just because it is enclosed to itself. I used to use VMWare on linux to code/test some windows stuff aswell. Mainly cross-platform networking stuff.

 

[nathan]

personally i would prob do the following if you want to use linux as your main os.

Install vmware, then create a new virtual os with windows and use that for programming.

 

[mrapoc]

ahh right, couldnt get WINE to work on the .exe installer anyway, tried to use unshield etc. but im n00b. Sounds like a grand idea. How does it work?