Advanced development features in Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition

hi I'm Kurt from parallels and for those of you that have chosen to use Apple hardware for your development this short video will show you some new features in parallels desktop aimed specifically at the task of developers and testers parallels desktop Pro Edition which recently was released adds features like for example Network conditioning and the ability to debug in a separate OS and I'll show you these in this short video as you can see on my screen I have parallels desktop loaded and I have a number of virtual machines already I have five versions of Windows loaded I have five versions of the Mac OS and I have one Linux distribution parallels desktop enables you to load as many virtual machines as you have room on your hard drive and to run as many simultaneously as you have RAM for right now I'm running two simultaneously Windows 10 and Windows 7 before I jump into development tasks let me give you a quick introduction to parallels desktop and I'll do that here in Windows 7 here you see Windows 7 running in a Mac window and this is the basic feature of parallels desktop notice level of integration we have here Windows cursor Mac cursor Windows cursor Mac cursor here's a file on my Mac desktop I want to move that to Windows I can just drag it over here and drop it in Windows that file is now there I can open it happens to be a PowerPoint file and I have office 2013 loaded in this virtual machine we have other things that would make the in the integration between the two OS is really smooth two of those are the following one we give the user the ability to use Mac gestures in Windows application for example on the trackpad if I now scroll by two fingers I can scroll the PowerPoint slide I can zoom by pinching this level of integration is exactly what our users are the s4 they want the Mac and the Windows environments to behave together if you have a Windows 10 virtual machine like I do here you can do the follow hey Cortana what's the exchange rate of the Japanese yen one Japanese yen equals zero point zero zero eight four US dollars we passed the MAC location services data to Windows also so on so the Crotona can also do this hey Cortana where am I you're currently at Street in Bellevue because we're on a Mac we can also Cortana can also do some things that it can't do on a Windows PC for example hey Cortana launch pages Mac here's pages Mac and even though I'm now using a Mac application in this case pages I can still use Cortana to retrieve data for me hey Cortana what's the melting point of mercury - thirty seven point eight nine degrees Fahrenheit and then take that information and paste it into my my report so what does this mean to developer well to a developer the recently released parallels Desktop Pro Edition as a number of features that aren't needed by the average user and gives the developer the ability to do some development tasks really efficiently and much much in a smarter way I'll show you those now the feature I mentioned earlier network conditioning enables means you could to throttle the network connection of the virtual machine and do things like introduce artificially some network instabilities to see how my app perhaps under those conditions I'll do that in Linux and I'll switch to the expanded form of the control center and you'll see here a number of buttons that aren't available in the standard edition of parallels desktop these buttons are developer specific for example I can do a core dump of virtual machine I can attach a debugger to a virtual machine I can access the web server running in a virtual machine I can open up a shell window to a virtual machine we'll use the web server if I click on this button here it will launch the default web browser on the Mac in this case Safari and connect to that virtual machines web server and I'll patch you running there and you see that it renders that page almost instantaneously let's close this window empty the Safari cache and go back over here to Linux and now condition that Network what I'll do is turn that on and I'll cut the network transmission speed by a factor of 10 and I'll drop half the packets on the network simulating a noisy network connection and we'll see how the app behaves under that's these conditions so what happens now is parallels desktop tears down that network connection to that virtual machine and then begins putting together new one with the conditions that I specified earlier and now we're connected go back over here and open the web browser and you see that it renders much much slower much much slower there we are so with this ability I can simulate how my app might be like would behave in a network that's really noisy or network that's really slow if I go back now close this window empty the Safari caches and go back over here and turn off network conditioning like this are now back it's a full speed of the network and when I hit that web button you see it goes back to rendering instantaneously because parallels desktop controls the external environment that these virtual machines are running in we can do things like change the network speed introduced in network instabilities and give you a very flexible environment to test your app before you ship it so that's network conditioning I won't need Linux for our next demo so I will shut that down and what I want to show you now is some actual code development and debugging in a separate virtual machine so I'm going to launch Windows 7 with Visual Studio already installed and we'll launch Visual Studio and I have here a very small console application and you can see the source code here I've already set a breakpoint so on I don't want to debug this in Windows 7 I want to see how it behaves in Windows 8 so I'll launch a Windows 8 virtual machine and because it's a console app I'll go to the desktop of Windows 8 parallels desktop Pro Edition ships with a visual studio plug-in and when you install that you give this extra menu item in Visual Studio and this enables me to run my debugging in a separate virtual machine in this case Windows 8 what like this a connection is established the app is moved over there the app begins running you see now temporary variables are listed here the call stacks here and I've hit my breakpoint I can step over that breakpoint run the app continue around the app to completion and it finishes the advantage of this are several one if my app had crashed if I was in the same virtual machine where I was doing my development I might have lost some development work but being in a separate virtual machine even if it crashes that OS I've lost no work on my development environment and that's great plus I've just tested my app in Windows 8 what if I want to now test and other versions of Windows Windows says 10 windows 7 even Windows XP I can do that very efficiently with this environment setup now of course we're leveraging the fact that Visual Studio has a notion of remote debugging built into it we've just made it much much easier to use and to configure I don't have to know anything about the IP addresses of virtual machines I just use the menu items so I hope you've enjoyed this demonstration of parallels Desktop Pro Edition and you can see the parallels desktop running on a Mac gives a Windows developer who's chosen to use Apple hardware a very efficient and robust environment for all the development needs you can of course go to parallels comm to get a trial version of parallels desktop thank you very much