Comments on: Developing .NET On A Mac – Resharper Alt+Insert

By: Pierre Desjardins

Pierre Desjardins — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:34:16 +0000

I’m having a hard time with certain French caracters: è, à, ü, ç notably. On a true Win XP machine, using the French (Canada)-French (Canada) layout, I get the right caracters using a key combination that I have used since 1999. But on the VMWare Windows XP, using the same keyboard layout, I get the following caracters using the appropriate key combinations: “e, “a, +u, ¸¸c . Have any idea why the difference? How to fix it?

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:14:35 +0000

To send the ctrl+alt+insert do this:

fn+m+ctrl+alt+enter

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1001675&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=13990713&stateId=1%200%2013994960

By: John

John — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:29:57 +0000

Has anyone had the problem of VMWare Fusion not accepting keyboard input. I have the screen where I would do the ctrl-alt-delete and it won’t take input. If I force feed this to the machine it then provides me with the prompt to put my user name/password in for windows; however, the keyboard is not active –meaning I can press keys and get no response. there is nothing wrong with the keyboard generally as I can type in other fields. The mouse also seems to work. I am bringing up a new Macbook Pro and can’t get passed the first screen. Any help greatly appreciated.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:48:41 +0000

Thanks, worked like a charm

By: cuende

cuende — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:17:35 +0000

Thank you very much! Yes it helps a lot !

By: chriskchew

chriskchew — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:09:41 +0000

@cuende – I just posted some information in a new post, hopefully it helps!

By: Developing .NET On A Mac – Performance and Productivity « Chris Chew’s Weblog

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:07:41 +0000

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By: cuende

cuende — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:18:17 +0000

Hello.
Please could you provide more info about your “transition”… I am aslo developing .NET 2005 & 2008… but I wish to use a MacPro…. but dont know…. maybe bootCamp is better for that.
What are your “speed” feeling compare with a PC. I am really scared to buy a MacPro and discover that I am all the time in the PC side (bootcamp) because the speed, Visual Studio is very heavy and slow …
Do you use Vista or XP. Thansks in advace… any help or advice is appreciated.
Regards,

By: chriskchew

chriskchew — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:16:55 +0000

@Jan – Excellent! Thanks for the follow-up.

By: Jan Dubois

Jan Dubois — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:59:27 +0000

@Chris – Yes, that worked: I connected a USB PC keyboard. In the “To” field of the dialog you don’t have to select from the drop-down list, you can just press a key. After creating the mappings with the external keyboard I can now use them from the Macbook keyboard as well (I used Shift+Control+’-’ for “Numpad -” and Shift+Control+’=’ for “Numpad +”). Thanks for the suggestion!