I want to install MS Visual Studio 2015 (Community Edition) on Ubuntu 14.10 machine I have tried wine but it didn't worked as expected.

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I have tried wine but it didn't worked as expected

Yeah, VS will require a full and proper Windows stack. Wine simply won't cut it.

You'll need to either dual-boot or use virtualisation (Virtualbox, VMWare, etc) to install a proper copy of Windows. I'd probably go with a virtual machine but it'll likely be somewhat slower than a native install - which may be an issue if you're compiling lots. The up-side is you'll never have to leave Ubuntu.

Other than that, you probably want to look at transitioning your projects away from .NET and into Mono. It'll be a while until the recent open source .NET stuff hits a usable state, and even then, it'll probably only be a target. I doubt MS will port VS to be cross platform.

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