XP->Vista - What are the odds?

[plnelson]

Not long ago I wrote an app to use in scheduling and running some music events. Now a friend of mine wants to use it for an event that she's running.

She's a dear friend and I don't want to inconvenience her or make her a guinea pig or a beta tester, but she doesn't live near me and she's the only person I know who uses Vista!

My app is a pretty simple .NET desktop app written in C# in Visual Studio 2005. It has the usual set of UI controls - buttons, listviews, text boxes, a tabcontrol, etc, some owner-drawn. It does file I-O both to persist data through serialization, and to import data from other sources (.CSV files). It also prints stuff.

How can I guess the odds this will work properly in Vista, given that it works well in XP Pro, SP2 and above?

Thanks in advance.

[dglienna]

If you don't do anything inside of Program Files, but use Program Data instead, it should work. Vista comes with Net 2.0 Framework already, so she might be up to a later version.

Why don't you download Virtual PC 2007, and install Vista INSIDE of XP, to test it out?

I have a VHD image of DOS 6.2, W2K, WXP, MediaCenter, and Windows 7 (all running inside of Vista 64 Bit w/4gb of RAM)

You need enough RAM to give a Virtual Machine over 256MB (Win7 has 1gb)

[plnelson]

If you don't do anything inside of Program Files, but use Program Data instead, it should work. Vista comes with Net 2.0 Framework already, so she might be up to a later version.

Why don't you download Virtual PC 2007, and install Vista INSIDE of XP, to test it out?

Because I don't own a copy of Vista.