Upgrade Fears

[Daten]

Im a small time C# developer but i love making odd little apps, Now im all prepared for my upgrade to windows 7 pro , But i have a few concerns, Ive been running on a 32bit operating system since forever and i want to install the 64bit version of wwindows 7. Im trying to figure out if that will cause any problems on my development side of things with incompatibility, Any advice on the subject would be apreaciated :)

[Baggpuss]

depends on the software you use. Most recent stuff should be fine as they are taking into account 64bit OS's more and more.

[codemonkey]

I use Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 7 64 bit without any problems at all

[Daten]

Ahh brilliant, I use both 2008 and 2010 VS for .net development and was a fraid that any program I made wouldent be compatible with 32 bit Os's :) Thank you.

[Helior]

Unless you've ventured very deep into ".net" you aren't going to have any problems. 2008 and 2010 both work fine in windows 7 64 bit, so get stuck in with 2010 and some lovely TDD :)

[promedia]

The only major problems with 64bit Operating Systems in general seem to be legacy hardware support for 64bit.

Generally items with 16bit code which is not executable in 64bit mode for Data Protection reasons (a .sys/.dll file which can be 16bit but a 64bit OS & CPU will not allow it to execute).

That's the only thing holding 64bit back,
compatibility with mass market products only designed to work on 32bit OS's.

Cameras and Wireless drivers seem to be the biggest problems.

For C# development it's so high level it doesn't matter anymore,
you're no longer talking to the System since it's almost an interpreter language ["compiled" to byte instructions].

So yeah unless you're a Systems Engineer it's not a problem :)

Jim,

[mattk]

even if you do run into problems with the 16-bit code execution, then you an always just install the XP mode feature that windows 7 pro and ultimate allow to install.

[coursemyhorse]

Thats why I went with Pro for the XP mode.

[dunx]

Hi,
This article may help you in your deliberations http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219401497

[cjmUK]

I don't see what the problem is... just re-compile!