Vista working with SQL and Visual Basic

[Guest]

We currently have customers using windows XP but they will shortly be
upgrading or buying new PC's with Windows Vista, we currently program using
SQL Server and Visual Basic we have been told that it will not work with
Vista does anyone know if this is true?

 

[pvdg42]

We currently have customers using windows XP but they will shortly be
upgrading or buying new PC's with Windows Vista, we currently program
using
SQL Server and Visual Basic we have been told that it will not work with
Vista does anyone know if this is true?

What version of Visual Basic are you using?

VS 2005 works under Vista, which includes the latest version of VB. However
Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003 are not supported under Vista. I've seen
posts (no personal experience) that VB 6 (pre .NET) can be made to work
under Vista.

OTOH, all versions of the .NET Framework (1.0, 1.1 and 2.0/3.0) do work
under Vista. So you could develop on an XP machine using VS 2002 or VS 2003,
then deploy your completed app to a Vista box with the correct framework
installed.

 

[Rick Raisley]

What version of Visual Basic are you using?

VS 2005 works under Vista, which includes the latest version of VB. However
Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003 are not supported under Vista. I've seen
posts (no personal experience) that VB 6 (pre .NET) can be made to work
under Vista.

OTOH, all versions of the .NET Framework (1.0, 1.1 and 2.0/3.0) do work
under Vista. So you could develop on an XP machine using VS 2002 or VS 2003,
then deploy your completed app to a Vista box with the correct framework
installed.

VB6 works just fine on Vista. What has to be watched, of course, is the
location that files are saved to, including INI files. These same rules were
in effect in WinXP, but not usually enforced. Vista requires a rethinking
due to user accounts. But VB6 itself works fine, and in fact Microsoft is
committed to making sure it works (so they've published). There are quite a
number of articles and white papers out concerning how to insure
compatibility.

 

[ray]

We currently have customers using windows XP but they will shortly be
upgrading or buying new PC's with Windows Vista, we currently program using
SQL Server and Visual Basic we have been told that it will not work with
Vista does anyone know if this is true?

I'd certainly advise against vista until at least SP1. DELL has reversed
itself and will be offering xp.

 

[Leythos]

We currently have customers using windows XP but they will shortly be
upgrading or buying new PC's with Windows Vista, we currently program
using SQL Server and Visual Basic we have been told that it will not
work with Vista does anyone know if this is true?

Why are you not testing your application on the platform yourself?

If you have an app that is worth owning/using, then you should be testing
on all supported platforms BEFORE allowing your customers to use it.

Not one single person here can tell you if your application will work,
they can guess, but only you can know for sure by testing it.