Using SWD Page Recorder on Linux and MacOS

After lots of time spent on experimental builds for Linux and MacOS X which runs under Mono, I’ve made a decision to drop any plans to support SWD PageRecorder on those platforms.

The reasons are simple: Winforms applications, that looks not bad and works pretty fast on Windows looks ugly on other platforms. The only option in this situation is support two separate UI implementations for Windows and Linux/MacOS on Winfroms and GTK+ or Qt. That decision is time consuming additional time and effort which I cannot I don’t have.

My decision is temporary dropping any plans for native support for non-Windows platforms. But there is a workaround.

You always can use a special virtual machines provided by Microsoft for free in testing purpose. You do not break any license terms and you may use those images for free for testing purpose.

1. Install VirtualBox
2. Download a Virtual Machine image from Modern.IE website. SWD PageRecorder is tested on Windows XP, feel free to choose this or any other OS.
3. Install .NET Framework 4 on Guest OS
4. Run SWD PageRecorder

I do understand this is the hard way. But only in this case I can guarantee high application performance and reliability for SWD PageRecorder.