Re: Visual Studio and Vista

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Not sure about the 64-bit direction, but many of the issues in the list have
been ironed out in SP1. Admitedly, it is not a release product yet, but
should be in the next month or two.

Not sure at all about Visual Studio .NET (2002 or 2003 versions), but I have
not done any development in anything other than Visual Studio 2005 for more
than six months.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
http://gregorybeamer.spaces.live.com

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"Mark Rae" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

On Friday I attended the Microsoft EVO conference in London where they
talked about Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007 and how they all work
together beautifully, how they were all "people-ready" etc...

I asked a couple of questions about Visual Studio.NET on Vista, especially
on 64-bit Vista, and they became *very* nervous...

To cut a long story short, Microsoft will not support ANY version of
Visual Studio.NET on any version of Vista, 32-bit or 64-bit, straight out
of the box. Apparently, there are HUGE problems with the much tighter
lockdown of Vista than WinXP, but even running Vistual Studio.NET with
elevated privileges will not solve it.

Therefore, Microsoft have had to completely abandon support for VS.NET
2002 or 2003 on Vista - they are no plans for this to ever change. The
only version of Visual Studio.NET which will be supported on Vista is
VS.NET 2005 + Service Pack 1 *AND* something which they are currently
calling the "Vista Support Update". However, this won't be available until
February 2007 at the very earliest. Even then, the Microsoft suits
couldn't / wouldn't give me any sort of definitive answer about VS.NET
2005 on 64-bit Vista...

Not only that, I would venture that quite a few of us here are MSDN
subscribers so are probably using SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition - oh
dear! There are apparently loads of issues with SQL Server 2005 on Vista
(the suits wouldn't even say if earlier versions are supported), but one
of the most notable ones is that SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services is not
supported at all, nor could they say when or even if it would ever be
supported on Vista...

So, for all us developers, it's 32-bit WinXP for at least another six
months... This is quite disappointing, as I'd hoped to make the jump to
64-bit straightaway, and continue any 32-bit legacy support through
virtualisation...

Ho hum...

Mark.

P.S. I'm not making this up:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/windowsvista/default.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/windowsvistasupport.mspx



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