Developing with Vista

[VectraMan]

Does anybody do it?

I've been using my Vista laptop with VS2005 on a fairly large C++ project, and it's pushing me over the edge. It frequently gets itself into a state where it won't stop debugging, and won't edit and continue, and then the only way out of it is to kill the devenv process (after which I have to wait 5 minutes for "updating intellisense").

Okay so VS2005 was never sparklingly solid, but I don't have the same degree of problems with XP. I'm tempted to see if I can make my laptop dual boot XP.

[voodooflux]

Does anybody do it?

I've been using my Vista laptop with VS2005 on a fairly large C++ project, and it's pushing me over the edge. It frequently gets itself into a state where it won't stop debugging, and won't edit and continue, and then the only way out of it is to kill the devenv process (after which I have to wait 5 minutes for "updating intellisense").

Okay so VS2005 was never sparklingly solid, but I don't have the same degree of problems with XP. I'm tempted to see if I can make my laptop dual boot XP.

No problems here. Are you running VS2005 SP1 and the corresponding SP1 update for Vista?

[VectraMan]

No problems here. Are you running VS2005 SP1 and the corresponding SP1 update for Vista?

Yes I've got that. A clean build does seem to sort things out for a while, but that takes nearly 20 minutes. Perhaps it's just the size of the thing that is the problem.

[Churchill]

Nothing to do with an update. The filesystem in Vista is less tolerant to "bugs"!

Use VS2008, it'll show you where the problems are.

Failing that PM me and we'll sort something out.

[thunderlizard]

Yes - I was having the same problems on my laptop. So I got a new PC with 4GB RAM and loads of spare hard disk space and it's been quick as you like since then.

[VectraMan]

Nothing to do with an update. The filesystem in Vista is less tolerant to "bugs"!

Use VS2008, it'll show you where the problems are.

Failing that PM me and we'll sort something out.

Sorry I'm confused. How can the file system affect whether the OS can stop debugging a process?

If I was sure it would fix it, I'd consider using 2008. But from what I've seen 2008 doesn't change anything, other than a load of extra .NET stuff for WPF and the like which isn't relevant to me.

[Churchill]

Sorry I'm confused. How can the file system affect whether the OS can stop debugging a process?

If I was sure it would fix it, I'd consider using 2008. But from what I've seen 2008 doesn't change anything, other than a load of extra .NET stuff for WPF and the like which isn't relevant to me.

Sorry, my bad.

[minestrone]

I use eclipse so it's probably not applicable but my 4 1/2 year old XP desktop provides a much more stable development environment than my 5 month old, top of the range Vista latop. Even though my desktop runs a bundle of other servers/services on the side which the latop does not.