"smerf" <smerf@shroom.com> wrote in message
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> First of all, I tried installing VS2005 Pro on Vista Ultimate 32 bit RTM
> and Vista told me that VS2005 was not compatible with Vista. How the hell
> can that happen? I thought one of the main ideas of .Net was portability.
>
> Then, when I looked around some more, I saw that VS2002 and VS2003 will
> NOT be supported on Vista. What the hell? That violates Microsoft's own
> terms of support for both of those products!
>
> It is clear that Microsoft does NOT want people to develop code to support
> their OSs. Otherwise, why would they kick us in the ass every time we
> turn around?
>
> --
> Smerf
> "How can the right nut NOT know what the left nut is doing in the same
> Microsoft sac?"
>

"Laurent Bugnion [MVP]" <galasoft-lb@bluewin.ch> wrote in message
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> Besides, a patch should be delivered soon.

>.NET runs on Vista. It's "only" Visual Studio that doesn't. Besides, a
>patch should be delivered soon.

smerf wrote:
> First of all, I tried installing VS2005 Pro on Vista Ultimate 32 bit RTM and
> Vista told me that VS2005 was not compatible with Vista. How the hell can
> that happen? I thought one of the main ideas of .Net was portability.

>Then, when I looked around some more, I saw that VS2002 and VS2003 will NOT
>be supported on Vista. What the hell? That violates Microsoft's own terms
>of support for both of those products!

>It is clear that Microsoft does NOT want people to develop code to support
>their OSs. Otherwise, why would they kick us in the ass every time we turn
>around?

> Hi,
>
> smerf wrote:
>> First of all, I tried installing VS2005 Pro on Vista Ultimate 32 bit RTM
>> and Vista told me that VS2005 was not compatible with Vista. How the
>> hell can that happen? I thought one of the main ideas of .Net was
>> portability.
>
> .NET runs on Vista. It's "only" Visual Studio that doesn't. Besides, a
> patch should be delivered soon.
>
> <snip>
>
> Greetings,
> Laurent
> --
> Laurent Bugnion [MVP ASP.NET]
> Software engineering: http://www.galasoft-LB.ch
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Cor Ligthert [MVP] wrote:
> Laurent,
>
> In my idea are you not giving an answer on the question but on the
> introducing to that.

> This was in my idea the main part of the question.
>
>> Then, when I looked around some more, I saw that VS2002 and VS2003 will NOT
>> be supported on Vista. What the hell? That violates Microsoft's own terms
>> of support for both of those products!
>
>> It is clear that Microsoft does NOT want people to develop code to support
>> their OSs. Otherwise, why would they kick us in the ass every time we turn
>> around?
>
> I have no answer on that.
>
> Cor

"Laurent Bugnion [MVP]" <galasoft-lb@bluewin.ch> wrote in message
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| smerf wrote:

>IIRC I read somewhere that VS 2003 will not run on Vista, IMHO this is a
>shame, I'm still developing/mantaining apps in 1.1

>I hope at least that they run fine under Vista