[Nottingham] MS Vista news - you'll like this

[Darren Fuller]

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I use VS2005 at work and noticed when I was downloading SP1 for it that
they are working on a service pack for the service pack to get it
working properly on Vista!

Maybe I'll just talk the company into going Mono?

Daz

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David Rice wrote:
> I've been lurking for a while without contributing but thought you would
> like this - it was forwarded to me by a colleague.
>  
> OK, don't laugh, but here is a list of Visual Studio products and
> whether or not they are supported under Vista
> 
> *	Visual Basic 6.0 (supported) 
> *	Visual Studio .NET 2002 (not supported) 
> *	Visual Studio .NET 2003 (not supported) 
> *	Visual Studio 2005 (supported, but will have "compatibility
> issues" until some nebulous set of post-SP1 fixes ships) 
> 
> So, unbelievably, not even the latest version of VS is supported (but if
> you are still on VB6 you are OK !!).
> 
>  
> 
> Scott Guthrie (for Microsoft), offers a bit of clarity (not) for the
> situation in a comment posted on a blog. 
> 
> "VS 2003 will mostly work on Vista. What we are saying, though, is that
> there will be some scenarios where VS 2003 doesn't work (or work well)
> on Vista -- hence the reason it isn't a supported scenario," Guthrie
> writes, adding that Vista will support .NET 1.1 at runtime. 
> 
> Unfortunately this rule's Vista out for anyone who needs to support any
> sort of .Net 1.1 development.  We can't have a situation where UM want
> some urgent fix to the SMS Gateway only for us to find out that this is
> all wrapped up in one of these vague "scenarios where VS 2003 doesn't
> work well (or work well) on Vista".   
> 
>  
> 
> In fact, I did see that Microsoft have said that its not a problem as
> "you can do you VS 2003 development in a Virtual PC".........to which my
> answer would be w at nkers <mailto:w at nkers>  ;-)
> 
>  
> 
>  
> Regards
>  
> David Rice
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