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Visual Studio support under Vista

So the word is out: Visual Studio 2003 wil not be supported with Windows Vista. The community screams uproar! (e.g. here, here and here)

Soma is specifically talking about Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 as the IDE that will be supported, albeit with some issues. But what about Visual Studio 2003 Service Pack 1? In fact, if we take a look at the release notes for Visual Studio 2003's SP1 (yes, I do that sometimes), it clearly states:

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 Requirements and Specifications
Download size:

160 MB
Available languages

English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows NT 4
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
Vista

Supported Framework
.NET Framework 1.1
.NET Framework 1.1 SP1 (recommended Framework level)

See, Vista is supported! So, all we developers need to do is install Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2003 and we should be fine under Vista... Right?

posted on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:32 PM

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# re: Visual Studio support under Vista 9/27/2006 7:08 PM Frans Bouma

no, it's the debugger. The debugger (and some other things) won't run nicely on Vista, due to security and process memory layout constraints. (see wilson's blog, ScottGu replied there).

Kind of lame excuse when you have thousands of people on the payroll, but of course, why support a few lousy developers...

# re: Visual Studio support under Vista 9/27/2006 7:51 PM Sander

Yes, I read ScottGu's reply. I'm still puzzled as to how it will affect doing real development work. I'm assuming that Scott's interest is with the asp.net developers, and since Vista runs with IIS 7, I can understand that VS.NET's debugger won't be able to cope properly, even with IIS 6 compatibility features installed.
But will it fail to run entirely? I don't think so, but it seems MS is not willing to resolve bugs that arise when running VS.NET 2003 on Vista.

And I agree that this is an issue I would like to see resolved. Then again, the debugger had issues in XP and 2003, so I guess it's something we have to live with. I'm not hopeful MS will direct resources for, as you say, a few lousy developers.

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