will VB.net work on pentium 1?

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I already have VB6 and I am interested in buying VB.Net. I would like to explore web forms. My concern, I am using a pentium 1 166MHz computer with windows 98. I have heard/read somethings that infer that VB.net will work on my computer and I have heard/read things that infer it will not work. Any help here before I purchase the software and find out the hard way?
 
The system requirements at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/sysreqs/default.aspx list
450mhz as the minimum and 600mhz as the recommended processor speed. It
doesn't seem that your trusty 166 is going to work for this...

Cheers,
Lubos

Michael M said:
I already have VB6 and I am interested in buying VB.Net. I would like to
Click to expand...
explore web forms. My concern, I am using a pentium 1 166MHz computer with
windows 98. I have heard/read somethings that infer that VB.net will work on
my computer and I have heard/read things that infer it will not work. Any
help here before I purchase the software and find out the hard way?
 
Thanx for the hel
I used the link to get to system requirements for VB.Net. It is the same as on the box. However as I understand those requirement are only what the product has been tested on. If this is true Microsoft may never have tested the software on a PI 166 machine so it might still work. That what I am trying to find out
 
Performance is an issue in at least two areas on my PII 400.

1. When referencing a library such as Word, Excel or Office, it takes a long
time to do the compile.

2. When upgrading a VB 6 project to VB .NET, a VB B6 project that takes only
a few minutes to compile in VB 6, takes over 3 HOURS to upgrade to VB .NET
using the built-in upgrade wizard.

--
http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
Michael M said:
Thanx for the help
I used the link to get to system requirements for VB.Net. It is the same
Click to expand...
as on the box. However as I understand those requirement are only what the
product has been tested on. If this is true Microsoft may never have tested
the software on a PI 166 machine so it might still work. That what I am
trying to find out
 
You cannot develop a .NET application under Win98. The SDK need Win2000 SP3
as a minimum OS requirement.
But you can run a .NET application under Win9x .

Michael M said:
I already have VB6 and I am interested in buying VB.Net. I would like to
Click to expand...
explore web forms. My concern, I am using a pentium 1 166MHz computer with
windows 98. I have heard/read somethings that infer that VB.net will work on
my computer and I have heard/read things that infer it will not work. Any
help here before I purchase the software and find out the hard way?
 
just a joke.
hehe.

I am sure that You can't bear it.
it is too slow!

Michael M said:
I already have VB6 and I am interested in buying VB.Net. I would like to
Click to expand...
explore web forms. My concern, I am using a pentium 1 166MHz computer with
windows 98. I have heard/read somethings that infer that VB.net will work on
my computer and I have heard/read things that infer it will not work. Any
help here before I purchase the software and find out the hard way?
 
Michael,
VB.NET the IDE is very slow on a Pentium II 300 w/384M, I would consider it
unusable on a Pentium I 166. As the others have suggested the more memory
the better.

The bigger problem you may have is I understand the IDE itself will not load
on Windows 98!

You could load the .NET framework or .NET Framework SDK & Sharp Develop, and
may have better luck & performance.

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

Hope this helps
Jay

Michael M said:
I already have VB6 and I am interested in buying VB.Net. I would like to
Click to expand...
explore web forms. My concern, I am using a pentium 1 166MHz computer with
windows 98. I have heard/read somethings that infer that VB.net will work on
my computer and I have heard/read things that infer it will not work. Any
help here before I purchase the software and find out the hard way?
 
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