So the word is out: Visual Studio 2003 wil not be supported with Windows Vista. The community screams uproar! (e.g. here, here and here)
Soma is specifically talking about Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 as the IDE that will be supported, albeit with some issues. But what about Visual Studio 2003 Service Pack 1? In fact, if we take a look at the release notes for Visual Studio 2003’s SP1 (yes, I do that sometimes), it clearly states:
Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 Requirements and Specifications
Download size:
160 MB
Available languages
English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian
Supported Operating Systems:
Windows NT 4
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
Vista
Supported Framework
.NET Framework 1.1
.NET Framework 1.1 SP1 (recommended Framework level)
See, Vista is supported! So, all we developers need to do is install Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2003 and we should be fine under Vista… Right?