vs.net question

[douglas]

Can Visual Basic.net professional 2005 edition (Visual Studio.Net 2005
professional edition be installed on a Vista Home computer operating system?
If so, is there anything) I should be aware of?
If not, can you tell me why Visual Basic.net professional 2005 edition
professional edition does not run on a Vista Homer computer operating System?

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Can Visual Basic.net professional 2005 edition (Visual Studio.Net 2005
professional edition be installed on a Vista Home computer operating
system?
If so, is there anything) I should be aware of?
If not, can you tell me why Visual Basic.net professional 2005 edition
professional edition does not run on a Vista Homer computer operating
System?

It is assumed that you applied the VS 2005 SP for Vista . I know you have to
do it for the 2005 Express addition when I loaded it on Vista Ultimate. You
might have to do it for the Pro version too.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Michael,

Breaking change is as a newer version is breaking the upwards compatibility.

As you see VB7 there was in fact almost no need to add a Microsoft Visual
Basic namespace, as that the Net classes have themselves a lot of ways to do
it.

By instance the Len function is in Net still in VB but I think most people
use at a certain moment the length or the count property, as that is easier
to use.

One of the goalkeepers for that is Bill mc Carthy, he checks very much of
new code has not breaking changes with VB6.

Another good example that in VB7 and latter the indexing can be done as 1 to
last and zero to last-1. In fact is the VB6 way more logical, but everybody
learns now at school that computers are counting now starting at a zero
index, and therefore it reaches a wider community then only old people.

It is not the change on a break.

As I am wrong, I am sure Bill will correct me.

Cor

 

[douglas]

"Michael D. Ober":

Thank you very much for your response! From your instructions, I do not
know what you mean by the following:

1. 'Install VS 2005, overriding the nag screen'. Does this mean when I am
installing visual studio.net professional, I need to do a 'custom' install
instead of the 'typical' install. I need to make certain that I do not pick
the 'nag' screen. (Is the 'nag' screen refered by a different name? Also if I
do a 'custom' install, what other features would the 'typical' install pick?
2. 'then immediately install VS 2005 SP1 before using VS 2005.' Wouldn't I
just let my computer get the 'required' updates? Then VS 2005 SP1 would be
picked up correct?

Thanks!



Vista has some "breaking" changes with regards to VS 2005. Install VS 2005,
overriding the nag screen that it doesn't support Vista and then immediately
install VS 2005 SP1 before using VS 2005.

 

[PvdG42]

"Michael D. Ober":

Thank you very much for your response! From your instructions, I do not
know what you mean by the following:

1. 'Install VS 2005, overriding the nag screen'. Does this mean when I am
installing visual studio.net professional, I need to do a 'custom' install
instead of the 'typical' install. I need to make certain that I do not
pick
the 'nag' screen. (Is the 'nag' screen refered by a different name? Also
if I
do a 'custom' install, what other features would the 'typical' install
pick?
2. 'then immediately install VS 2005 SP1 before using VS 2005.' Wouldn't I
just let my computer get the 'required' updates? Then VS 2005 SP1 would be
picked up correct?

Thanks!

Here's what you need to do.
1. Install VS 2005, ignoring any dialogs that warn you that VS 2005 is not
supported in Vista (that's the "nag" previously mentioned). You should be
able to simply do a standard install.
2. Install SP1 for VS 2005.
3. Install the Vista patch for VS 2005.

Note that you may still have to "run as administrator" for full VS 2005
functionality.
Opinion: you'd be better off upgrading to VS 2008, which is designed for
Vista.

 

[douglas]

"PvdG42":

I want visual studio .net 2005 since that is the version I am using at
work. I want to be able to make changes at home that I can apply to my .net
code at work (job)..

If I installed visual studio.net 2008 on my pc on home, and brought the
code back to my job, it would not work.

However since the visual studio.net 2005 is embedded within the visual
studio.net 2008 code, would I just tell the config files what version of .net
I am working with?

Let me know if you have suggestions you have.

Thanks!