Visual Studio on Citrix?

Question

_{Monday, August 22, 2011 9:12 PM}

Can Visual Studio 2008 or 2010 be installed on Citrix servers to be run by citrix clients?  This would be an ASP.Net development team so they would potentially need to debug on IIS.

Has anyone done this and have experience with it?

Thanks,

Dale

All replies (3)

_{Wednesday, August 24, 2011 7:34 AM ✅Answered}

Hi Dylan,

As far as I know, it depends on what Citrix product you use. If you use XenDesktop (VDI), it only shows the desktop of the virtual machine (like RDP terminal to a VPC) and you should be able to debug the IIS process on the same VM. If you use XenApp which just provision a single process, it is isolated secure environment and you will not able to debug other running process.

I would recommend double checking with Citrix.

Thanks & Regards,
Leon Zhang
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_{Monday, August 22, 2011 9:17 PM | 1 vote}

There might be a solution in this thread, but never confirmed : http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/10f09b4c-9eeb-45b5-956e-f4693637321b/ 

Regards,

Dylan Meeus

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_{Monday, August 22, 2011 10:36 PM}

Thanks, Dylan.  I read that thread before posting my question.  It appears to address one issue that could come up but doesn't really indicate any success in running it for doing real work.  There's surprisingly little available information on this topic.  That probably tells me something in itself.

Regards,

Dale