I used Microsoft XP as operation system for web design and development for 1 year. But now I am switching to Ubuntu (linux).
For Windows OS we have Microsoft’s SuperPreview for testing compatibility in different versions of IE.
Please specify the list of such utilities or tools which provide such support in Linux, specifically for Ubuntu.
If you want to test IE compatibility on Linux, you have a few options:
Windows on a Virtual Machine (eg: VirtualBox) with multiple IEs installed
IEs4Linux
Wine + Winetricks
In order of personal preference (VM is my favorite option).
Other than that, you can use install Firefox, Opera and Chrome on Ubuntu. There's no native version of Safari, but you should be fine since it uses the same rendering engine as Chrome (WebKit).
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I for now do need to run IE 11 in Ubuntu 16.04 for selenium test cases.
Using Wine and PlayOnLinux can be helpful but there is no IE 11 as far as I know
Internet Explorer is a product of Microsoft and It can only work properly with Windows OS.
There is no any official way suggested by the Microsoft to install the Internet Explorer on Ubuntu OS.
There are some tricks or hacks available with the help of that somehow you can manage to install the older version of IE on your Ubuntu OS but it's performance will be very low. It can get hang or crashed frequently. Also Ubuntu does not has the appropriate directory structure, environment and other settings which are necessary to run IE properly.
The best work around for using IE on Ubuntu OS is to install any Windows OS using virtual machine. Than you can try to access that Windows OS from your Ubuntu OS and try to run your tests with IE browser.
There is also no selenium Web driver support for IE on Linux OS.
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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!
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.
I am running windows 7 which won't even allow me to use the latest IE version for testing.
I currently use google crome and firefox. Is there a program or easy way to test a site with multiple browsers, and not just
the way they might look but everything like javascript and ajax just as if I were using that particular browser?
http://www.xenocode.com/Browsers/ has some great online browser virtualizations.
They take a bit to load but are perfect for testing. Javascript and such will work like normal and you can try out all the versions of IE from the same computer without installing anything.
I should note that these launch fully functional browser windows- It is not an in browser preview type thing.
They used to have multiple IE versions, Firefox, Opera and safari available to download as portable software but I can't find them anymore :(
Install a virtual machine manager - OpenBox from Sun is free and works OK - and install a copy of Windows / Linux / whatever in each of a bunch of virtual machines. Then in each Windows either keep the installed browser (ie IE 6, hahah, in XP) or upgrade it to IE 7 or IE 8. Also install whatever versions of FF and Opera and so on.
It's not perfect, but I get by using IETester for different versions of IE. The author claims it works on Windows 7.
You can check out the TestSwarm, by John Resig. His blog article on here is at:
http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-testing-does-not-scale/
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.