windows vista & visual studio 2003, 2005, & vb 6

[ray]

my xp pro machine crashed, in order to service legacy programs i need to
install the following on a windows vista machine.

would i have a problem doing the following.

1) installing visual studio 2003 on a vista machine?

2) installing visual studio 2005 on a vista machine?

1) installing vb6 (visual basic 6) on a vista machine?

thanks for any input

ray

please respond to the group

 

[Stephany Young]

Theoretically no, but you would have to be aware of which version of
devenv.exe you .sln files were associated with.

If you were do such a thing, the order in which I would install would be:

1. VS6 + service packs.

2. Framework 1.1 + VS2003 + service packs

3. Framework 2.0 + VS2005

4. VS2005 Service Pack 1

5. Enhancement for VS2005 on Vista

6. Framework 2.0 Service pack 1

7. Related updates

Another way to do it is to Use Virtual PC 2007 and have a virtual machine
with XP/VS6 and another virtual machine with XP/VS2003, etc. That way you
can test under the target OS.

 

[ray]

thanks stephany, ray

 

[Rory Becker]

Theoretically no, but you would have to be aware of which version of

devenv.exe you .sln files were associated with.

My apologies because io have no evidential information to hand to back up
my statement, but I believe that VS6/VB6 are very much unsupported on vista.
Although the VBruntimes are included for deployment to vista.

Im also pretty sure I have heard suggestions that VS2003 does not run well.
VS2005 requires the vista specific update to SP2 but does function well and
VS2008 runs, for me like a dream.

In any case you have to be aware that there will be several sets of circumstances
which might require you to elevate any IDE to administrator level.

I recommend running VS2005 and VS2008 in vista. if you need the other 2 I
would suggest going the VirtualPC route and installing Xp within that environment.

Again my apologies for not brining specific evidence to the table.

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Rory,

Can you try to add it next time to the right thread, now it looks to an
answer to Stephany and I was curious what answer there could be to her in my
idea correct answer.

Thanks

Cor

 

[PvdG42]

my xp pro machine crashed, in order to service legacy programs i need to
install the following on a windows vista machine.

would i have a problem doing the following.

1) installing visual studio 2003 on a vista machine?

2) installing visual studio 2005 on a vista machine?

1) installing vb6 (visual basic 6) on a vista machine?

thanks for any input

ray

please respond to the group

You should be aware that VS .NET 2003 is not suported on Vista. IIRC the
issues are primarily with the debugger.
You may well have issues here.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948854.aspx

For VS 2005, be sure to install SP1 and the Vista patch for VS 2005. For
full functionality, run as administrator.