Visual Studio Upgrade
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Have been working on Vista system using VS2010 for couple of years. Creating C# apps and ASP.net web pages. Want to upgrade my system (complete new one) and move to VS2012. Any reasons to move to Windows 7 vs. Windows 8. Don't really see any Windows 8 development, at least not in the very near future. Current projects are WPF with C# and Asp.Net web apps.
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Have been working on Vista system using VS2010 for couple of years. Creating C# apps and ASP.net web pages. Want to upgrade my system (complete new one) and move to VS2012. Any reasons to move to Windows 7 vs. Windows 8. Don't really see any Windows 8 development, at least not in the very near future. Current projects are WPF with C# and Asp.Net web apps.
If you ever want to do SharePoint development, you'll want to create a virtual machine. Windows 8 comes with Hyper-V, which allows you to create virtual machines. Even if you don't want to do SharePoint development, you may still want to use virtual machines to test things without screwing up your main install. You could use other software to create VMs, but if you have the chance you may as well pick an OS that comes with VM software. That would allow you to, for example, run Windows 8 and then run Windows 7 inside of a Hyper-V virtual machine (best of both worlds). One more reason would be to test things on Windows 8 and IE10. Windows 8 has a version called RT that doesn't allow certain things, such as (I am guessing) WPF apps. Also, there are two versions of IE10... I think the RT version is more secure (disallows plugins or something of that sort).
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Have been working on Vista system using VS2010 for couple of years. Creating C# apps and ASP.net web pages. Want to upgrade my system (complete new one) and move to VS2012. Any reasons to move to Windows 7 vs. Windows 8. Don't really see any Windows 8 development, at least not in the very near future. Current projects are WPF with C# and Asp.Net web apps.
If your WPF applications are being used on XP or 2003, you'll need to bear in mind that there are bugs in .NET 4.0 which you won't see on a system with 4.5/VS2012 on it, and you won't be able to deploy the fixes to an XP/2003 machine. The only "solution" is to develop your 4.0 applications on a separate machine without 4.5 on it, or at least run extensive tests on a machine without 4.5 installed. This is all down to the fact that 4.5 is an "in-place upgrade" (ie: a service pack), but you can't install it on XP/2003 because they're out of mainstream support.
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Have been working on Vista system using VS2010 for couple of years. Creating C# apps and ASP.net web pages. Want to upgrade my system (complete new one) and move to VS2012. Any reasons to move to Windows 7 vs. Windows 8. Don't really see any Windows 8 development, at least not in the very near future. Current projects are WPF with C# and Asp.Net web apps.
I'd go with Windows 7... specially for a development machine... I've heard nothing but complaining about Windows 8 from people I've talked to, apparently it's still a bit buggy and in a dev machine you probably want something relatively stable.
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Have been working on Vista system using VS2010 for couple of years. Creating C# apps and ASP.net web pages. Want to upgrade my system (complete new one) and move to VS2012. Any reasons to move to Windows 7 vs. Windows 8. Don't really see any Windows 8 development, at least not in the very near future. Current projects are WPF with C# and Asp.Net web apps.
After a short time of finding out how things work in Win 8 you can switch faster between applications than you could on Windows 7. And the search function has been improved and is now pretty fast. I use Win 8 and I am confident with it.
cheers Marco Bertschi
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