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   Dee Earley to Raoul Watson   
   Re: Vista issues   
   12 May 09 08:51:03   
   
   From: dee.earley@icode.co.uk   
      
   Raoul Watson wrote:   
   > Jan Hyde wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> You mean *your* vb apps ;-)   
   >>   
   >   
   > Sadly, I served as a consultant to four shops with apps written by over   
   > 15 different programmers..   
   >   
   > My list of VISTA issues are over twenty five pages now..   
   > and really.. in defense of the programmers, they didn't do anything   
   > non-kosher. What works beautifully in NT, 2000, XP, XP Pro, simply   
   > doesn't in Vista. At least not for some seriously complex applications.   
      
   Writing data to Program Files and HKLM have not been kosher in any of   
   that time unless you have a very good reason to require admin access.   
   On Vista, this menas the elevation mnaifest.   
      
   > Maybe I am in the wrong forum, looks like no one has issues with Vista   
   > here.   
      
   Not any more as we adhere to the rules.   
      
   > Some even say they had no problems with their install of the VB ide..   
   > and I couldn't even pull that one off when I went into this project..   
      
   VB was fine, VS however was a PITA.   
      
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   Dee Earley (dee.earley@icode.co.uk)   
   i-Catcher Development Team   
      
   iCode Systems   
      
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