Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista under XP ?

[Patrice Dargenton]

Hi all,
the "Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista" is
requiered to build application compatible for Vista (in some case, for
example ActiveX controls, this SP is necessary). My question is : is this SP
is availlable also for VS2005 under Windows XP ? (in order to build
application compatible for Vista from XP) or do I need to upgrade my
developpement workstation to Vista ?
Is it the same issue with VS 2008 ?
Thanks for help.

 

[Benny Skjold Tordrup]

Patrice,

The sp1 update for Vista is merely fixing som IDE issues when running VS
2005 on Vista.

Best regards,

Benny

 

[Norman Diamond]

The SDK for Vista can be installed under VS2005 SP1. This affects the kind
of machine you can target not the kind of machine that you develop on. A
newer SDK (now called WDK) was released a few days ago with its own
problems.

The hotfix maybe was intended to reduce crashing of VS2005 SP1 itself when
developing on Vista, and maybe it does so on machines that I haven't seen.
This is completely separate from the SDK.

 

[RobinS]

After you install VS2005, you need to install VS2005 SP-1, which is
available and should be installed on both Vista and XP.

"Visual Studio Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista" is to fix
incompatibilities in VS2005/SP-1 for Vista, i.e. it's a patch to VS2005
SP-1. So you can't and don't need to install it on XP.

You don't need to update to Vista in order to build applications for Vista.
If you're writing something in WPF that uses Vista-only capabilities, you
will probably want to test them on Vista, whether in a VM or on a machine
running Vista.

There is no SP for VS2008 (yet).

RobinS.
GoldMail, Inc.

 

[Patrice Dargenton]

You don't need to update to Vista in order to build applications for

Vista.

I would like to have this feature, but in a real world, this is not true :
DotNet2 + ActiveX does not work on Vista until the source code is compiled
under Vista (whereas DotNet1 + ActiveX works fine in all case).

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Patrice Dargenton
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After you install VS2005, you need to install VS2005 SP-1, which is
available and should be installed on both Vista and XP.

"Visual Studio Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista" is to fix
incompatibilities in VS2005/SP-1 for Vista, i.e. it's a patch to VS2005
SP-1. So you can't and don't need to install it on XP.

You don't need to update to Vista in order to build applications for
Vista. If you're writing something in WPF that uses Vista-only
capabilities, you will probably want to test them on Vista, whether in a
VM or on a machine running Vista.

There is no SP for VS2008 (yet).

RobinS.
GoldMail, Inc.
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[RobinS]

That hasn't been my experience. I can deploy a version of my company's
application from an XP machine, and it installs and works fine on computers
running either Vista or XP.

RobinS.
GoldMail, Inc.
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You don't need to update to Vista in order to build applications for
Vista.

I would like to have this feature, but in a real world, this is not true :
DotNet2 + ActiveX does not work on Vista until the source code is compiled
under Vista (whereas DotNet1 + ActiveX works fine in all case).