Re: CVF and Vista

On Jan 30, 8:51 pm, sureal <sur...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

According to CNET Vista is just a warmed over XP, so CVF should work
just fine, except for an unknown number of service packs until MS cleans
up the bugs.

Whoever wrote that is clueless.

One significant change in Vista is that the registry is locked down so
that, by default, applications cannot modify most registry entries,
even if the user has administrator privileges. Visual Studio depends
on making such changes and is not happy if it cannot. Apparently, VS6
(used by CVF) simply falls over if it is blocked from the registry.
Even VS2005 will behave in odd ways if it can't write the registry.

I would have expected MS to fix VS 2005 so that it operated within the
limits of Vista but apparently they are saving that for the NEXT VS
(code named Orcas). All they did with their Vista compatibility
update was remove VS2005 from the list of "incompatible" applications
and add a popup warning you to run VS as administrator.

This is not a Vista "bug" and MS has said that they will not be
updating earlier versions of VS to support Vista. For more
information, see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/
aa948853.aspx , especially the FAQ.

My own experience with Windows Vista is that MOST things that worked
on XP work there, but anything that tries to hook into the system
(anti-virus programs, for example), or which make certain assumptions
about the registry, may fail.


Steve Lionel
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