Need to run windows OS on my macbook pro at the same time with MAC OS. what do i use

I need to run windows OS & office so i can access my company server. What is the best platform to use & which will enable you to run both oS at the same time.
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Depending on the specific features that you think you need in a Virtual Machine, you should research the paid "Parallels" and "VMWare Fusion", and the free yet very capable "VirtualBox". I personally use VirtualBox because it does NOT include all of the Mac-to-VM interactivity features that the others do. For performance and security reasons, I specifically do not want my VM to be able to interact with my Mac OS host in any way other than copy and paste.
On your Windows VM, if you are running windows 8.1, and are not logged in as an administrator as your primary account, then the built in Windows Defender is a perfectly suitable for anti-malware protection. If you are running Windows 7 (or 8.1) and want additional protection I would recommend "BitDefender Free" as it has great protection yet has a very light-weight performance hit.

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Ideas?

My first thought is that, since only one of your projects is an application (the other is a DLL) why not have a single solution that builds both projects and work on them in a single instance of Visual Studio?
I ask this because you cannot launch a DLL project directly. And if you only ever plan to run code in your DLL by running the exe, then just have them in the same solution and use them in the same IDE.
What is the benefit to you of having two separate instances of Visual Studio running? (Particularly given that it's giving you a headache while debugging.)
You can "flip back and forth" as you specified, but only if you're debugging two different processes -- each IDE would need to be debugging its own process. If you know what exception you're expecting because you're debugging a particular
issue then you can leave the debugger detached, and then when you get the unhandled exception you can choose which running instance of visual studio to attach (or select to launch a new instance.)
As far as I can tell, it sounds like you are debugging a program composed of multiple projects (an exe and a dll). They should simply be in the same solution and you can debug them together in a single IDE. You can open windows from either
project. Not sure what having two IDEs is getting you.

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I'm new to the Mac world and I need to install windows on my new Macbook pro for running my flight simulator software which only runs on windows. I would like to purchase and download the windows 8.1 rather than buying the CD.
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Injektil wrote:
Hello everyone! I'm buying a Macbook pro for the first time and i need your opinion. I'm a Web Developer / Graphic Designer, and i need this macbook for my work. Currently i have these 2 options:
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Your 2nd choice
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