Re: Visual Studio and Vista

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"Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer)" <NoSpamMgbworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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That's not good enough for me. I'm a jobbing contractor, so who knows
what my next project will be...? I certainly don't until the phone rings
or the email arrives...

Then, you have a couple of choices:

1) Forgo Vista until everything is perfect
2) Virtualize - set up XP virtuals to ensure you ahve an evnironment for
Visual Studio

Gotta be 1).

I couldn't agree more! As it stands, I have a perfectly serviceable
operating system in 32-bit WinXP, but I make my living from Visual
Studio.NET, so I simply can't take the risk of running Vista on my
development machine until I'm (reasonably) confident that it will allow
me to continue to work...

That is a perfectly acceptable answer. I am not so certain that Vista
gives enough for the developer, unless you are planning on developing for
Vista. If so, you will have to bite the bullet.

Nothing I've seen so far...

I have done it before. Runs a wee bit slower, but completely isolates the
OS. I prefer WMWare to VirtualPC, but have used both to develop with. In
fact, I find it an easy way to switch from Visual Studio 2002, 2003 and
2005 without having to have all installed on the same machine/image.

Yes indeed. I'm still supporting a v1.1 app which is currently sitting in a
virtual machine in case the phone rings... :-)

I can concur with this. I will likely install it and flip back to Virtual
machine if there is a problem.

By contrast, I'll be staying with WinXP until Vista is finished...


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