What are Microsoft's plans for .NET Studio Vista support?

[Argo]

I find it super odd that Microsoft's main IDE product doesn't work on their top of the line OS. Has there been any discussion on the topic?

 

[Schadenfroh]

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For developers using Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista, Microsoft is in current development on an update to Service Pack 1 called the ?Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Vista Refresh Beta?. This update builds on the improvements made in SP1 and delivers a first class experience for developers wanting to take advantages of the new features in Windows Vista. The Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista is expected to ship after the consumer availability of Windows Vista in Q1 of 2007 and is now available in beta.

 

[Jaxidian]

Yup, what Schad says. I've been developing in VS2k5 under Vista ever since RC2 was released way back in September. Because our big project was just deployed live within the past week, I didn't get a chance to redo my dev environment to Vista release until just a little over a week ago (which luckily coincided with the end of Feb when RC2 would stop working).

I'm now running a full retail version with the beta update that Schad mentioned and it runs great (actually better than it did in RC2 as there were some funky debug issues going on if you stayed at a breakpoint for too long).

Oh, and one more thing that is kinda confusing about what Schad quoted. First you have to install SP1 (which takes forever!). Secondly, you have to download that beta update. The text makes it sound like it's a beta version of SP1 when it really is just a relatively small beta update.

Good luck!
-Jax

 

[Markbnj]

It works fine. I suspect what people mean when they bring this up, is that Visual Studio 2005 doesn't full support the cool new .Net 3.0 features (WPF, WCF, WWF). That is coming in Orcas (there is a CTP out on this now), along with some tweaks to take better advantage of Vista.

 

[Schnieds]

Yeah, it works great. I have the beta version of SP1 installed. I get a message that I have to run VS 2005 as Administrator and if I don't do that I can't set breakpoints and debug code. Other than that I haven't found a single issue.

 

[stash]

I'm running VS2005 SP1 with no beta anything, and it works fine as a standard user on Vista. Breakpoints and debugging work with no issues that I've noticed.

 

[stash]

And speaking of this topic, the SP1 update for Vista was released today (non-beta): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta...-4873-A2EE-4ACC0AACE5B6&displaylang=en