Is Windows Phone 7 programming available on Mac OS X based computers?

Question

I'm eager to start developing for WP7, but restarting my Mac to boot Windows seems pretty annoying. Is there any usable ways of WP7 development on Mac except virtual machines?

Thanks in regards.

Answer 1

VM is not an option, the Windows Phone emulator will not run from within a VM (here's an answer to an earlier SO question stating the reasons for that). The only option is to shutdown and boot Windows, however annoying that may be.

Answer 2

To develop WP7 using IDE such as Visual Studio .NET you have to work on Windows. So the only way is too install virtualisation such as VMWare Fusion or Parallel for MAC.

Hope this helps.

DCA