[dba-VB] What OS for .Net dev

Hi John,

Win XP SP2 should be OK for up to .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, I'm not sure about
.NET Framework 4.0 - but I'd hope it should be OK too.

I do use Vista Ultimate as my main development PC, I do have WinXP SP2 to
test my setups, as well as I used MS Windows 2003 Server in the past and it
worked well while using it to develop .NET apps.

Windows 2008 should be probably the best choice, but it's not necessary I
suppose: as far as I understand new .NET versions just add new .NET
Framework classes and technologies, which run on top of "good old Win32API",
which didn't change that much since WinXP, and if something new comes in
windows system then that new parts should be installed OK from WinXP SP2 and
up...

I have seen customers are now starting to request .NET apps running on 64
bit machines as well as utilizing optimally multi-core systems - I do not
have that experience yet... 

Thank you.

--
Shamil

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Subject: [dba-VB] What OS for .Net dev

I am going to do a virtual machine to do my development on.  This allows me
to move it around on an 
external disk between host machines.

My question is what OS would you suggest for the VM for development in .Net?
My available choices 
are XP, 2003 and Vista (and maybe Server 2008).

Also how much disk space for the virtual hard disk?

Even though I have been using Vista on my main development laptop for a
couple of years, I still 
hate it, so that would not be my first choice.

Windows 2003 is a very stable environment but it is also a server OS and I
have run into a lot of 
applications, PerfectDisk for example, which refuse to run on a server OS OR
want you to pay 
hundreds of dollars for something that costs $50 for XP.

Which leaves me with XP which is getting long in the tooth.

Any yes, I have a copy of Server 2008 which I assume would have the same "is
a server OS" issues 
that 2003 brings with it.

Any thoughts on this?

BTW I think I am going to bring up a server machine (real hardware) to run
the Server 2008 license I 
have.

-- 
John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com
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