Working remotely on Visual studio Dotnet
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Hi all , I manage 25 computer with Window Xp and a server with window 2003 server. All clients are working on Visual Studio Dot net 2003 and 2005 . I installed both dot net 2003 and dot net 2005 on all the system . This is cover the space on all the system for same application and slow the system space, I want to install Dot net on server machine and use this application all the client remotely or share the dot net on server machine without any issue . If this is possible or any other possibilities . plz give the solution . Thanks for this .
nilesh
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Hi all , I manage 25 computer with Window Xp and a server with window 2003 server. All clients are working on Visual Studio Dot net 2003 and 2005 . I installed both dot net 2003 and dot net 2005 on all the system . This is cover the space on all the system for same application and slow the system space, I want to install Dot net on server machine and use this application all the client remotely or share the dot net on server machine without any issue . If this is possible or any other possibilities . plz give the solution . Thanks for this .
nilesh
Ok just to check I have this right. You want to have Visual Studio installed on the server and then have the users on the 25 machines access Visual Studio on the server remotely? This is possible, you can use Terminal Services to allow the client machines to access the server via Remote Desktop. If you want to do this though you'll have to make sure the server is powerful enough. You'll probably be wanting atleast 27Gig of RAM, 8x4 Core or 13x2 core CPUS's and a nice big SCSI raid array of hard drives. Visual Studio likes a lot of ram and lots of CPU so these values should be minimums. What you'll probably find is it's just cheaper and easier to buy decent client machines for each user. Remember that the slower the machine, the less productive each programmer will be. It'll take longer to compile and the programmers minds will start to wander :P time spent waiting will mean your programmers get bored. Another issue with centralising Visual Studio is that Dual Monitor setups also greatly increase productivity and Remote Desktop will only work with the one monitor really. At the end of the day treat your developers with respect and give them the machines that will allow them to do the best work they can for you. If I was told I had to develop over Remote Desktop from a server shared with 24 other people I wouldn't stick around at that company for very long :P Treat your programmers like 2nd class users and the best will leave, leaving you with 2nd class programmers.