running a .net 3.0 web service on a mac

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I am starting my dissertation for a masters in advanced software engineering and I have chosen to have make use of some .net3.0 technologies such as WWF, WCF etc.

I have a macbook pro with vista installed via bootcamp.

I need to be able to have the web services running and also have access to osx for developing other layers. Obviously bootcamp is of no use as it's either vista or osx. Can parallels or vmfusion do what I need? If I'm running vista using one of these methods, can I access a web service running in vista from mac osx? Does windows get it's own ip address? or is this accessed through ports?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[WildPalms]

VMware Fusion and Parallels both would allow what you ask for. If you are looking to replicate a dev environment, dont run Vista. Either use Windows 2003 server or Windows XP. You can have the client OS (Windows) get an ip directly, via NAT or share the host IP. You can also snapshot and rollback when testing changes.

In short, yes, Windows can get its own IP address.

 

[.mark.]

VMware Fusion and Parallels both would allow what you ask for.

great - would you recommend either one given my use as described earlier?

If you are looking to replicate a dev environment, dont run Vista. Either use Windows 2003 server or Windows XP.

can you expand on this? the reasons I want to run vista are
1) I want to use the .net3.0 technologies which came out for vista - I know it is possible to setup the framework on xp but I don't see why this would be advantageous.
2) I have a copy of vista!

You can have the client OS (Windows) get an ip directly, via NAT or share the host IP. You can also snapshot and rollback when testing changes.

In short, yes, Windows can get its own IP address.

could you also expand on this please.

thanks for all your help - i thought i might need to buy another computer for this!

 

[WildPalms]

VMware Fusion

great - would you recommend either one given my use as described earlier?

I'd definitely recommend VMware Fusion. Although they have come to the Mac market after Parallels, they have been in the virtualization market for over 10 years and their Windows and bare metal products are superb.

can you expand on this? the reasons I want to run vista are
1) I want to use the .net3.0 technologies which came out for vista - I know it is possible to setup the framework on xp but I don't see why this would be advantageous.
2) I have a copy of vista!

My main reason was to as closely as possible replicate a development environment that you would expect to see in a company, however since its predominantly the .NET 3.0 framework that you're working with and as you already have Vista, I cant see any problem going with Vista in a virtual machine.

Networking...

The network option for the IP address is very straightforward, as below:

Windows will either get an address from a DHCP server, a virtualized IP address, or share your computers IP address depending on which option you check in the settings.

thanks for all your help - i thought i might need to buy another computer for this!

Hope this helps