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Winforms WYSIWYG development on Ubuntu

...can it be that this is impossible without Windoze in a VM? Specifically for WYSIWYG dialog editor: Visual Studio Community runs like a dog in a VM.* Visual Studio Code doesn't appear to have one. Monodevelop only has a GTK# one** Jetbrains Rider is a 'cross platform' IDE but the WYSIWYG tool only works on Windoze . >_< SharpDevelop is built in .NET but for some reason uses Windoze-specific code . Is the only serious option to dual-boot with Win7/10?  SERIOUSLY? Who ever said that .NET is cross platform? Gromgromgrom. So I'm left going with a Win10 VM running on a ramdisk and a second virtual drive on HDD to hold the code.  Seeing as I want to commit and push the code straight back to source control, it shouldn't be a problem that the local copy of the code is trapped in a virtual disk. *it isn't _all_ that bad in qemu/kvm if you're running Win10 from a ramdisk, but make sure you get your syncing to HDD right or you could lose a lo...