Develop over RDP

2013-03-21 Thread Richard Moore
Hi all Is it common practice to have developers RDP into a central server for the purposes of doing their day to day development? This is the first time I have encountered it, I'm used to developers having VMs on their local PCs. Kind regards Richard

Re: Develop over RDP

2013-03-21 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I have heard of it but never had to. I think it would drive me crazy if I was unable to personalise my environment. Craig On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Richard Moore wrote: > Hi all > > ** ** > > Is it common practice to have developers RDP into a central server for the > purposes of doi

Re: Develop over RDP

2013-03-21 Thread Michael Ridland
I wouldn't be happy with that either, actually I even prefer to avoid vm's if possible can't have stuff slowing me down.. and I wont work without SSD these's days either. On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Craig van Nieuwkerk wrote: > I have heard of it but never had to. I think it would driv

Re: Develop over RDP

2013-03-21 Thread Bill Chesnut
I do development every day on either my VMs or Client VMs and use RDP 95% of the time to access them. As a consultant I am looking to move to something like a surface pro as my traveling machine and the depend on RDP for all my development environments. Bill Chesnut Microsoft Integration MVP

RE: Develop over RDP

2013-03-21 Thread Adrian Halid
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Bill Chesnut Sent: Friday, 22 March 2013 5:15 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Develop over RDP I do development every day on either my VMs or Client VMs and use RDP 95% of the time to access them. As a

Re: Develop over RDP

2013-03-21 Thread mike smith
It's good for QA encountered faults, where IWOMM for the dev. You just RDP into the VM they have the fault on, and use the remote debug stub running on the VM, with VS back on your machine. Working from home, I sometimes VPN to my work box (from a Mac 27") - that's a lot less convenient, but work