Remote Desktop: XP -> Vista

[Brett]

A few days ago I mentioned I'd post results of remoting into a Vista box
from an XP box. Here's what happens:

Remoting from XP to Vista setup is still simple. I get good performance as
well. However, glass and Aero do not come across Remote Desktop. These are
there when at the Vista box.

Here's the hardware configuration:

Vista box:
- 4GB DDR2 6400 RAM with Intel Core2 Duo E6600
- (2) 7200 RPM SATA drives
- no video card. I have an Intel DG965ss motherboard and use the integrated
video with system memory. After all, it is Remote Desktop. I get a 3.7 and
3.8 performance index score on the two video components (locally of course).
Enough for glass and Aero.

XP box video is 128MB NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700. That should be plenty for
Aero and glass. Not sure why it isn't working.

The boxes are connected wirelessly and only a few feet apart.

Unfortunately VS.NET 2005 doesn't work properly on Vista. It will not open
any projects. So for now, I'm running it out of Virtual PC, which I have a
few running at any given time.

Brett

 

[Chad Harris]

Brett--

There is another way for you to connect to the XP desktop from the Vista
desktop *if as you say these boxes are connected on the network wirelsesly.

You can simply type into an IE address bar or the run box or an IE address
bar put into the task bar by right clicking it> toolbar>address

Whaterver driver you're using on the XP box\\Documents and Settings\Whatever
Profile is on that XP Box and then you will hit the XP desktop and can drag
a shortcut from that folder to your Vista desktop.

Suppose that on the XP desktop Vista is on drive C or E:

C:\Documents and Settings\Brett's or whomever's Profile on that wirelessly
connected box\Desktop should allow you to shortcut to the XP desktop.

Or you can work from the XP desktop to do the same thing to connect to the
Vista desktop only the pathway is going to be

C:\ or whatever drive Vista is on\Users\Profile on the Vista box\Desktop

I'm not sure if the Video Card on the XP box is going to influence Aero even
forced on the connected Vista box. I would think that is going to be
influenced ***by the Video Card you have on that Vista box.

I'll let someone familiar Visual Stuido .net address VS on Vista, but I
know that Vista doesn't support some versions of VS.

http://pointerx.net/blogs/glozano/a....NET-2003-not-supported-on-Windows-Vista.aspx

but that Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack is supported by Vista.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:12 A

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta and Visual Studio support for Vista

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2006/09/26/772250.aspx

CH

 

[Chad Harris]

The sentence "whatever driver" should have read "whatever DRIVE" --sorry for
the typo.

CH

 

[Jeff Gaines]

Unfortunately VS.NET 2005 doesn't work properly on Vista. It will not
open any projects. So for now, I'm running it out of Virtual PC, which I
have a few running at any given time.

No issues with VS 2005 here - I just fired it up using remote desktop from
this laptop, loaded, compiled and ran an app. I have turned off UAC
though, it breaks too many things.

 

[Brett]

No issues with VS 2005 here - I just fired it up using remote desktop from
this laptop, loaded, compiled and ran an app. I have turned off UAC
though, it breaks too many things.

I've turned off UAC as well. For Studio, I get this when I try to open my
web application:

The project file 'c:\myproj.csproj' cannot be opened.
The project type is not supported by this installation.

I have installed the web application extensions for Studio. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Brett

 

[Jeff Gaines]

I've turned off UAC as well. For Studio, I get this when I try to open my
web application:

The project file 'c:\myproj.csproj' cannot be opened.
The project type is not supported by this installation.

I have installed the web application extensions for Studio. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Brett

Sorry, my stuff is all Winforms, web apps are a mystery to me

I expect you will have seen this:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948853.aspx

in fact you may have written it - if so apologies!

 

[Kerry Brown]

Are you using the RDP 6.0 client for XP?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925876

 

[Brett]

I expect you will have seen this:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948853.aspx

in fact you may have written it - if so apologies!

Yes - I've seen that but it doesn't help.

I'll create a small winform app and see if it opens.

Brett

 

[Brett]

If Remote Desktop on WinXP uses RDP, than yes. I'll try the service pack.
Thanks.

Brett

 

[Brett]

I just installed the 6.0 client but what difference is it supposed to make?

Thanks,
Brett

 

[Kerry Brown]

The kb article I referenced describes the new features. The best ones are
multiple monitor support, 32 bit color, and font smoothing. The
authentication is pretty cool too. The RDP client authenticates for you. You
shouldn't see the logon screen of the host.

 

[Brett]

I see. But still no Aero or glass support

Thanks,
Brett