Re: CVF and Vista

On Jan 31, 11:48 am, Paul van Delst <Paul.vanDe...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

So, if I understand you (which I doubt since I know nothing about Windows at all :o),
Vista basically buggers up the system (Visual Studio) upon which apps like CVF and IVF depend?

It's my experience that admin privileges (on windows, linux or mac) are generally not
available to the people that actually use the computer.

Yes, that's one way of putting it, but one could also say that Visual
Studio was written in a way that misuses the registry. VS has in the
past required at least "Power User" privilege to use, largely because
of the registry issues, and debugging sometimes requires even more
privilege. I'll agree entirely that expecting all developers to have
administrator privileges is naive at best, but at least on Vista the
admin can set an attribute on the program so that it always runs with
privilege. (I think even if the developer doesn't have that
privilege.)

Again, I think that MS may address this in the next VS, but history
suggests that they're not going to redesign VS2005 to address this.

Steve

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