Re: Windows 7 and MFC Development

From:

"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:09:27 -0800

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No, I skipped the SQL Server installation when I installed VS2008, sorry. I
do have SQL Server 2005 installed but I'm not sure if that is the 32 or 64
bit version (Control Panel doesn't say). Visual Studio only ships with
32-bit hosted tools (you can target 64 bit, but the tools themselves are
32-bit).

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506.aspx to see the Windows
requirements of SQL Server 2008 Standard x64. Win 7 Professional,
Enterprise, and Ultimate (all x64) are listed, so it looks like you're
covered.

In all honesty, I don't think you need to be very rigorous about this. Of
course Microsoft is going to make Windows 7 compatible with developer tools,
as that's what their own developers are using! ;)

-- David

"Cameron_C" <CameronC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Do you use 64 bit SQL Server with this ?
I presume there is no special flavour of Visual Studio.

"David Ching" wrote:

"Cameron_C" <CameronC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hello again everyone.
I need to pick up a new development box today.
My development environment is VS 2008/MFC/SQL 2008.

Has anyone had any difficulties with Windows 7.
I am just checking to see if I will find any "gotchas" when I move to
the
new environment.
My previous machine was an XP Pro.

Thanks,

Running VS2008 SP1 on Win 7 is fine. Same with SQL Server. Get as
powerful
a machine as you can, with lots of RAM, as VS2010 looks like it'll be a
pig.
Of course, get 64-bit Windows to maximize all that RAM.

Cheers,
David

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