Re: VS.NET 2005 & Vista problems?

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"brett" <account@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This situation will remain until around February 2007 when Microsoft
intend
to release an upgrade patch to VS.NET 2005, after which they will support
it
on Vista.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948853.aspx

Does this mean your completely locked out of using VS.NET 2005 in
Vista?

It largely depends on what you're doing. There is a good chance that simple
projects will work OK, but there's also a chance that they won't. I make my
living almost exlusively with VS.NET 2005, so that simply isn't an option
for me.

Microsoft's suggested temporary "solution" is to install Virtual PC 2007
beta, build a Windows XP machine, and run VS.NET 2005 on that until they've
patched it sufficiently where they're prepared to support it on Vista.
Again, that's not a realistic option for me, as I spend at least 80% of my
computing time using VS.NET 2005.

I'll be sticking with WinXP Pro on my development machine for a while - I
just can't take the risk. As predominantly an ASP.NET developer, Vista
offers me almost no advantage over WinXP Pro anyway...

Has any one been able to use it in Vista?

I have an nVidia GeForce 6800 graphics card, so I can hardly even run Vista
itself, let alone anything installed on it... :-(


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