Zorin is a version of Linux which is very Windows-like. I am looking at their home page:
http://zorin-os.com/
and it says:
Zorin OS gives users more flexibility. It allows you to use Zorin OS
alongside your current operating system and run Microsoft Windows
programs in Zorin OS with the help of WINE and PlayOnLinux.
Does this mean I could use Visual Studio 2012 on Linux?!?!
Ok, so Wine is a compatibility layer which allows you to execute windows executables on your linux system. PoL is just a graphical frontend with some others functionalities.
You can use it on any linux system, it's not exclusive to Zorin.
However, executing windows applications through wine isn't always successful, especially with huge projects as Visual Studio which is using tons of native windows functionalities.
And indeed, when we check the reports, VS2012 doesn't work at all.
You can always try to install it, but when even the installer doesn't launch... You know there is no luck.
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We're in the process of converting our two FoxPro systems to new technology, but meanwhile we need to upgrade our server and I am trying to find out whether our legacy systems will run there. We'd prefer to go to Windows Server 2019, but using Server 2012 is possible. Our stations are Win 7 or 10 Pro, some 64-bit.
One system is in Visual FoxPro 9 and uses its native DBFs and some DBFs in FPD 2.6 format. Certain graphical and document functions (e.g.: OCR) are performed by calls to LeadTools 12.0. The application also calls Outlook.
The second system is a single-user application in FoxPro for DOS 2.6 run from an .app file. The 32-bit stations run this natively, while the 64-bit stations use the product, vDOS, to allow the 16-bit FPD to run there. The application wants to reside on the server since multiple stations can run it, albeit at different times.
Any help is much appreciated. Thank you!
Will a Visual FoxPro 9 EXE run on those server operating systems? Yes.
Will a Foxpro For DOS or FoxPro for Windows EXE run on those server operating systems? No. Those flavours of FoxPro are 16-bit, and as such would require a 32-bit version of Windows Server, the last of which was Server 2008.
However I suspect you are not running either of these on the server. You have a shared folder on the server with the DBFs in it, and the executables are running on workstations.
So if you have a 64-bit OS on the workstation then you can only run the Visual FoxPro exectuable directly. If you had a 32-bit OS on the workstation, you can run both Visual FoxPro and FoxPro for DOS\Windows executables.
Your question is really 'can I put the DBFs in a shared folder on those server operating systems and access them from client workstations?', and yes you can.
I got the following error when I was debugging my D3D application in VS2015.
D3D11CreateDevice: Flags (0x2) were specified which require the D3D11 SDK Layers for Windows 10, but they are not present on the system. These flags must be removed, or the Windows 10 SDK must be installed. Flags include: D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG
I know I need to enable Graphics Tools in Win10 or run Dism /online /add-capability /capabilityname:Tools.Graphics.DirectX~~~~0.0.1.0 to enable it.
But the machine I am working on are not allowed to connect to the internet. Is there a way to enable that offline?
Thanks a lot.
For the November 2015 update (build 10586) of Windows 10, you can find the Feature On Demand CABs for the Graphics Tools package here. You can install it via dism as noted in the documentation with that package.
Keep in mind that there's a lot of stuff in Windows 10 that's a number of 'feature on demand' parts of Windows including .NET 3.5, language packs, etc.
Not sure, but maybe the Graphic tools can ben installed from the iso of your Win10 ?
Post installing Windows 10 , and then Visual studio 2015 pro, I found , to my disappointment , that my laptop model G480lenovo doesn't support Hardware virtualization. In fact there is no entry for "CPU" in my BIOS configuration section.
So then , there is no phone emulators which I could use available in my VS
What are the alternatives here for the emulators that I could use, for testing universal windows applications?
Any pointers here?
If you cannot run Hyper-V on your machine, you need to test it directly with device.
But...I think it's better to double confirm if the CPU doesn't support SLAT. There is tools called Coreinfo. And you can download it from windows sysinternals.
After you download it and extract to a folder(for example: c:\coreinfo). Open command prompt as administrator and navigate to the folder(cd c:\coreinfo), then run coreinfo.exe -v (as below image shows). You can see it is supported on my end.
I did a quick research and found the G480 Lenovo uses i5-3210M or i3-2370M. And found the following specifications on intel official website which indicates both CPU support the EPT(Extended Page Tables) which is SLAT.
http://ark.intel.com/products/67355/Intel-Core-i5-3210M-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-3_10-GHz-rPGA
http://ark.intel.com/products/53442/Intel-Core-i3-2370M-Processor-3M-Cache-2_40-GHz
If you cannot find the options in BIOS, I think you need to contact your vendor to help you and maybe you need to update your BIOS firmware.
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I'm planning to develop an app for Android using Qt Quick Controls and an Android Emulator. The same set of components is said to work on Windows Phone. Thus I'd like to build the app for Windows Phone as well.
Unfortunately, Qt for Windows Phone is only available for Windows.
I don't own any Windows phone. I'm using a computer running Linux.
Is it possible to build the app for Windows Phone and test it in an Emulator without virtualizing/dual-booting Windows
Well there is Wine. This is what wikipedia says about it;
Wine (short for Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a free and open source compatibility layer software application that aims to allow applications designed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like systems.
You can find more info about Wine here; https://www.winehq.org/
I haven't tried it before but since it says "allow applications designed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems," I'm thinking it should work.
This is your only option. If it doesn't work, then i guess you should think about running windows on virtual machine or dual booting with windows. Good luck!
As i just need the hard RT capabilities, can I install and run Windows Embedded CE 6.0 on a regular PC ? (dell or so ?), and UDP out some data ?
You can install Windows CE in a PC, but you would need to create your own image. See this tutorial in MSDN. Also google for CEPC.
Finally visit Mike Hall's blog. I remember reading a related article there, but I can't find it now. Anyhow, this blog is a great resource for Windows Embedded.
(From working with Windows CE 5.0, so there may be some differences, YMMV.)
You should be able to run Windows CE both in an emulator and installed on the device itself as the host operating system.
In the first case all you need is an emulator, which is provided with the development kit and in a more expensive version of Visual Studio. This will run the OS fine, albeit a bit slow depending on the architecture you choose to build the Guest OS for.
In the second case you will actually need to find or write drivers for the hardware that you want to run on and use. This will require the Platform Builder application (I believe it's a plugin to Visual Studio now) and knowledge of the hardware that you are running on. Windows CE itself does support x86 processors, although I don't remember if it supports all x86 processors (instruction sets) or just 486's.
If you want to go down the second route you also may be able to get an Intel Atom or AMD Geode board support package (BSP) which will help you develop the drivers.