Install Visual Studio on your Mac

FAQ

You can check the first two by clicking on the Apple icon on the top left and opening up "About this Mac".

Press continue on the dialog box.
In the Memory dialog, give your machine 1024 MB of RAM. You can type in the box on the right.
Press continue on the dialog box.
In the Virtual Hard Disk screen accept the defaults (Boot Hard Disk, Create new hard disk) and press continue.
In the Welcome to the Create New Virtual Disk Wizard press continue.
Select a Fixed-Size storage in the Hard Disk Storage Type and press continue.
Specify a 25 GB hard drive in the Virtual Disk Location and Size dialog. You can type in the box on the right. Press continue.
In the Summary dialog, press Done. Wait while it processes. This may take up to 30 minutes, depending on the speed of your machine.
Once this finishes, press Done.

You should now see Win7-CS150 listed on the left side on the
VirtualBox Window. Select that virtual machine.
Put the Windows 7 Disk in the CD/DVD Drive

Click Storage on the right panel.
Select the Empty CD/DVD
In the right panel, choose Host Drive in the CD/DVD Device drop down box. and press OK.
With Win7-CS150 highlighed, press the green Start arrow at the top of
the window.
This should start the Windows 7 Installer. The Installer will ask you various questions and take up to 2 hours to install Windows.
Once Windows completes the installation eject the Windows install disk.
While Windows is not running, Click Storage, the CD/DVD Icon, and set the CD/DVD Device to Empty.
The DVD may show up on the Mac desktop. If it does, drag it to the Trash to eject the DVD.

Put in the Visual Studio Disk
While Windows is not running, Click Storage, the CD/DVD Icon, and set the CD/DVD Device to Host Drive.
Start Windows again.
The Visual Studio DVD should show up in Windows. If not, inside of Windows open My Computer, and click on the CD/DVD Drive. This should start the Visual Studio installer.
The install may take up to an hour. Once the install finishes, eject the DVD as described above and Visual Studio should work.
Bring both disks back to the instructor and you'll be given a Windows Key to activate Windows.

Choose System Properties from the menu bar.
Click on the Active Windows Now link towards the bottom of the dialog box.
Provide the license key given to you by the CS Department. You need to be connected to the network for this to work.

Choose Map network drive from the menu bar.
Choose a drive letter (any letter)
Folder: \\turing.cs.pacificu.edu\Students
Check Connect using different credentials
Press Finish
Supply your PUNetID for your user name and your Turing password.
The Turing drive should show up on the bottom of the computer dialog under Network Locations.