Does anyone use the Windows 7 preview release for .NET development?
Do things like SQL Server Express 2005/2008, VS.NET 2005/2008 work on it fine?
How about IIS?
Any other things I should be taking into consideration?
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I've been using Windows 7 as my primary operating system since its beta. It works pretty well with Visual Studio 2008 SP1, IIS 7.5, SQL Server 2008 SP1. I haven't had any problems so far.
Mehrdad Afshari
2009-06-17 21:25:53
Same here! If anything, I'm getting better performance out of VS since Windows7 is a little less demanding of my slightly aged laptop.
Dillie-O
2009-06-17 21:44:33
@Dillie-O slightly better than Vista? Or XP?
mxmissile
2009-06-17 22:10:51
I use it as well and it works fine.
crauscher
2009-06-18 12:05:45
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i've been using it since the beta build (7000), and now RC build (7100). no issues, maybe some glitches but i can't remember any particular so nothing that makes real problems. oh, forgot to mention - i use both 32-bit and 64-bit on my rather old notebook and recently built desktop machine. both work fine.
VS2008 works ok, 2005 i think has to be run as administrator for the debugger to work, or some glitch it was, but not 100% positive any more what was it..
SQL2005/2008 Express work fine.
haven't tried IIS, the VS built-in web server works fine.
zappan
2009-06-17 21:27:38
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I too have been using Windows 7 (Beta, RC1) with Visual Studio 2008, MySql, IIS 7.5 (and a ton of addons), Eclipse 3.4, and VMWare for running Linux - everything runs very smooth.
It is a dream come true. Really.
Bryan Migliorisi
2009-06-17 21:29:20
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I've been using Win 7 64bit for development heavily since beta.
VS 2008 + SP1, SQL Server Express 2008, TSVN 64Bit with a bit of development tools for Office 2007 Add-ins, Azure and Silverlight
There were a few issues under beta, but they were gone after upgrading to Windows 7 RC. Works like a snap.
Rinat Abdullin
2009-06-17 21:55:10